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...

It is my experience that resource pools are nearly a four letter word in the virtualization world. Typically I see a look of fear or confusion when I bring up the topic, or I see people using them ...

In order to correctly log Cisco device in Graylog2 setup the below configuration. This has now been added to the Graylog Marketplace https://marketplace.graylog.org/ Cisco ASA Configuration: lo...

I recently required a syslog server that was easy to use with a web interface to monitor some customers firewalls. I had been looking at Splunk but due to the price of this product it was not a via...