In this article I will be showing you guys the new ESXi Embedded Host Client, this has been long awaited by many users of the Free ESXi host and allows much better management of the host. Check o...
I spent quite some time trying to get the OpenVPN Server working on the Mikrotik Router with a Linux client, It caused some pain and I didn’t want others to go through that. I have therefore writte...
What is TPS? Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is a host process that leverage’s Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) component of the VMkernel to scan physical host memory to identify duplicate VM memory p...
One of the great virtualization and VMware features is the ability to take snapshots of a virtual machine. The snapshot feature allows an IT administrator to make a restore point of a virtual machi...
Recently I have seen an issue after upgrading some of our Dell R6xx hosts to 5.5 U2, they started showing FCoE in the storage adapters and booting took a really long time. I looked into this and f...
In this article I will be showing you how to add vCenter logs to a syslog server, I currently use GrayLog2 as its a great free syslog server and does everything that I require. First we want to i...
This article covers the deployment on the vCenter 6.0 VCSA, you will see that this process is radically different from previous processes. Download VCSA 6.0 from the VMware Website. Mount t...
What is NUMA? Most modern CPU’s, Intel new Nehalem’s and AMD’s veteran Opteron are NUMA architectures. NUMA stands for Non-Uniform Memory Access. Each CPU get assigned its own “local” memory, CPU ...
This is a very short and sweet article documenting the offline upgrade process from 5.5 to 6.0 Download the ESXi 6.0 Offline Bundle from the VMware website. Upload the file to the local data...
In this article I am going to take you through what a Distributed switch or dvSwitch is and how it is used, I will also talk about why backing them up is so important, then show you how to backup b...