ESXi 5 free version Update 1 – license “problems”
As most probably all of you know that VMware release Update1 for vSphere 5. But, not everybody knows that with vSphere 5 U1, VMware created a...
March 24, 2012
Author: Artur Krzywdzinski
Could not power on VM : No swap file. Failed to power on VM
When the ESX server get unexpected restart, it might happen that some of the VMs has a problem with Power on due to file lock. Failed...
March 21, 2012
vSphere 5 Update 1 released
VMware few days ago (15/03/2012) released update one for vSphere 5 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 (for Windows) Release VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1 Release...
March 19, 2012
VAAI – what is that ?
What the VAAI is? vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) can offload ESX host for specific storage operations such as: Atomic Test & Set (ATS), which...
March 14, 2012
Troubleshooting – cannot stop, start or remove VM snapshot
In the morning I was trying to remove snapshot from VM using vSphere client, to my surprise, I couldn’t remove it. An error says: Remove snapshot...
March 12, 2012
How the traffic flows ? Part 1 – storage vMotion
Many users have difficulties with understanding how the traffic flows during vMotion, storage vMotion, virtual machine clone, P2V or V2V. I decided to explain and to...
March 6, 2012
VCAP5-DCD beta exam experience
Last Friday I had a VCAP5-DCD exam. Unfortunately I can’t tell much about questions themselves but I can give few advises. All questions were from scope...
February 26, 2012
vSphere Best Practices – links repository
During preparation VCAP5-DCD preparation I gather a lot of interesting documents with best practices for vSphere 5, vSphere 4 and common for both version. I thought...
February 23, 2012
After VCP5 before VCAP5-DCD beta exam
Last days for me are quite intensive, last week I passed VCP5 – exam was fairly easy – today morning I got approval from my manager...
February 21, 2012
Installing VMware tools on Linux
Many users has a problem with installation of VMware tools for Linux virtual machines. so I decided to post quick guidance how to do it. To...
February 16, 2012
