In one of my previous post one can find guide how to enable replication for virtual machine in vSphere 5.1.  This post shows how to recover replicated VM using vSphere Web client. Recovery is possible only via vSphere Web Client. Requirements: Replicated virtual machine – Here one one can find guide how to enable vSphere replication. enough free space on datastores for recovered virtual machine Recovery guide Log in to vSphere Web...

One of the coolest features in vSphere 5.1 is enhanced vMotion. Enhanced vMotion is in fact combination of standard vMotion and storage vMotion in one process. Sounds good but someone can ask what’s the advantage ? Well, one can migrate live VM between ESXi hosts without shared storage. Is this cool or what ? Note: enhanced vMotion is available only in vSphere Web client, standard vSphere client does not support enhanced vMotion...

If you are looking around for alternative storage solution which can compete with big iron providers such as IBM EMC NetApp HitachiDS or how to build a Cloud solution using commercial and opensource components -  you should watch webinar lead by @Marek Lubinski – Senior Engineer @LeaseWEB. Marek presented Cloud solution build on: Nexenta storage HA clusters Supermicro NFS heads Apache Cloudstack as a cloud framework KVM and vSphere...

Yesterday I tried to enable vSphere replication for my vCenter server and I couldn’t make it work. Always in replication status I got an error message replication error: There is a storage issue with datastore path Even if you configure replication again and again, it does not help. After deep dive into logs I found that path to target datastore was not reachable, that was weird cause target and source datastores were on the same...

Quick guide how to add iSCSI software initiator and iSCSI storage using vSphere Web Client. Step 1# – Add iSCSI software initiator on ESXi 5.1 host Log in to vSphere Web Client From a Home screen go to vCenter –> Host –> choose host which you would like to add iSCSI storage on Click on Manage –> Storage –> green plus and add Software iSCSI adapter Step #2 – Port binding Click on iSCSI storage...

Few days ago I wrote blog post about OpenFiler virtual appliance deployment and configuration for vSphere homelab. Today, quick how to for in place upgrade from OpenFiler 2.3 to  OpenFiler version 2.99.1 and update to OpenFiler 2.99.2. In fact there is no easy way to do upgrade from 2.3 to 2.99. What has to be done is: export configuration from OpenFiler 2.3 clean install OpenFiler 2.99.1 update to version 2.99.2 restore configuration from...