Last week was an amazing brownbag with Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman. We talked about their favorite new features in vSphere 5: Storage DRS, Storage I/O Control, multi-nic vMotion, and much more! You can find video of the brownbag on professionalvmware.com. This Wednesday, September 21st 2011, Jason Boche will be presenting a brownbag on vSphere […]
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VMware: Install & Configure vCenter Server Appliance
Alongside its traditional vCenter release for Windows, VMware has also released a vCenter Server Appliance which is aimed directly at environments that aren’t currently using Windows-based vCenter server installs. In this post, I’m going to walk thru what’s involved with downloading, installing, and configuring the vSphere 5 vCenter Server Appliance. I had a bit of […]
VMware: What is ESXi 5’s recovery mode?
If you’ve watched an ESXi 5 host boot, you’ve probably seen the bottom right corner that shows <SHIFT+R: Recovery Mode>. I did a bit of looking in the vSphere 5 documentation, the VMware KB, and Google, and still haven’t found a clear answer as to its purpose. It appears that it offers the ability to […]
My thoughts on VMware Workstation 8
There hasn’t been much hoopla about it yet, but VMware released Workstation 8 (and Fusion 4, but I don’t own a Mac) today. If you have Workstation 7 currently, the checking for software updates from within Workstation will not find the new release. You’ll need to head over to VMware’s website to get it. One […]
Simon Long’s VCP5 Practice Exams
Just a quick post to highlight some great work being done by a fellow member of the VMware community, Simon Long (web/twitter). When I was studying for the VCP4 exam last year, I used Simon’s VCP4 practice exams quite a bit. I found it to be complementary to the official VMware practice exams, but also […]