VMware released hardening guide for vSphere 5. Public draft is available under below link. Anyone is welcome to post comments with findings or proposals. http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19056 What...
Today, second part of traffic flows series storage vMotion with VAAI. Scenario: Storage vMotion of virtual machine VMDKs from VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5 datastore, storage supports...
As you already know, if you have ESXi5 free installed on host with more than 32GB of RAM, after upgrade to U1 you might get into...
Many beginner admins have a problem with upgrading ESXi5 free or standalone servers. In general, there are 3 ways: Upgrade using ISO Upgrade using PowerCLi Upgrade...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
