Tuesday July 12th was a big day for VMware. They announced the VMware vSphere 5 product suite, restated their plans for enabling and accelerating private & public cloud adoption, revealed a change in licensing, and announced the VCP5 beta exam. I wasn’t surprised that VCP5 was announced, but I imagine that some of you (like […]
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Liveblogging the VMware vSphere 5 Launch
10:58 AM CDT: Announcing that it will begin shortly. 11:04 AM CDT: Deep breath. And so it begins… 11:05 AM CDT: CEO of VMware, Paul Maritz takes the stage. He’s discussing what he’s terming the ‘cloud era’, and the forces that are driving it — a drive towards an information-centric world, and a drive towards […]
Configuring EST & VST VLAN tagging with Dell PowerConnect: VMware vSphere
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a Dell PowerConnect 6224 in my vSphere lab. When I first started setting up my vSphere environment, I had some difficulties with configuring the Dell switch to support external switch tagging (EST) and virtual switch tagging (VST) VLAN modes. The VMware KB has a bunch of great information (KB […]
Upgrade VMware ESXi 4.1 (free) to U1
One of my visitors posed a question in another post of mine on how to upgrade the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX 4.1 to U1. To prepare for this post, I downloaded ESXi 4.1 from VMware and installed it in VMware Workstation. I also have the 4.1 version of the vSphere client. And without further […]
VMware vSphere 4.1 U1 released February 10th
Big release today for the VMware vSphere 4.1 suite. Depending on the size of the environment you support, you’re either cheering at the small amount of work ahead of you, or sobbing because you just recently got everything updated to 4.1 😉