VMware View 5.1 available for download
VMware released newest version of its VDI solution VMware View 5.1. The most important improvements are: max. 32 ESXi hosts in a cluster – finally 🙂...
May 17, 2012
Category: vSphere 5
How to enable VAAI on ESX for XIV storage
Many administrators don’t know how powerful VAAI (storage hardware acceleration) is, some of them ignores but if your storage supports VAAI I strongly recommend to enable...
May 14, 2012
vSphere 5 hardening guide – Rev. B
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...
April 22, 2012
How the traffic flows ? Part 2 – storage vMotion with VAAI
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...
April 11, 2012
How to rollback update 1 package from ESXi5
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...
March 30, 2012
How to update\upgrade ESXi5 free
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...
March 27, 2012
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
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
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
