Part 2: VMware vSphere vs. Oracle VM: Hypervisor War game: Decide where to...
Thank you for the patience folks. Again Players in the game are VMware & Oracle In Level 2, we will see how Oracle DB in particular is licensed on physical world , virtual and pointers around...
View ArticleFinal Part 3: VMware vSphere vs. Oracle VM: Hypervisor War game: Decide where...
Happy new year to all and thank you for your patience. WELCOME to final round of the war to understand where both stand as per TCO/ROI justificationYou would have about Part 1 & Part 2 and would...
View ArticlePowerCLI - Adding memory to vm
This is a simple way of adding memory to a powered-on vm, which has the Memory hot plug option enabled. It reads the server names from a file (deploy.csv) and updates the memory to what is specified in...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery/Break Fix of your Laptops / Desktops is possible with...
What could be probably be an endpoint disaster?Complete site goes off due to some natural calamity.Site not available due to some planned unplanned hardware or software issues.Individual Laptop/Desktop...
View ArticleLog Locations of VMware Products
Log Locations of all VMware Products Repost from myblog:http://www.virtualizationexpress.com/2014/01/log-locations-vmware-products/ In this post I tried consolidating all the VMware product’s log...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance upgrade failed
RePost from my blog: http://www.virtualizationexpress.com/2013/12/vcenter-appliance-upgrade-failed/I was trying to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 to vCSA 5.1, there is no inplace upgrade since...
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vCloud Director Troubleshooting.
Repost : http://www.virtualizationexpress.com/2013/12/vcloud-director-troubleshooting-html/I started working with vCloud director from its initial release (vCloud 1.0) and I was thinking to write...
View ArticleESXi の イメージプロファイルの standard / no-tools の違いについて。
ESXi には、VMware Tools を「含む」と「含まない」の2種類のイメージプロファイルがあります。ちょっと気になって、Tools 以外にも VIB の差分がないか見てみました。まず ESXi 5.5 のオフライン バンドル（ZIP形式のインストールイメージ）をMyVMware サイト からダウンロードしてきました。PowerCLI> ls...
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ESXi 5.5 を Intel Haswell NUC にインストールしてみた。
ESXi 5.5 を、Intel NUC D34010WYK（Haswell 搭載モデル）にインストールしてみました。今回ためした環境は下記です。Intel NUC D34010WYK（CPU は Intel Core i3-4010U。オンボードNICは Intel I218-V）VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-1331820mSATA の SSD はなし。Linux を NFS...
View ArticleEmulate a SSD drive in ESX
Emulate a SSD drive in ESX :The standard hard drive (HDD) has been the predominant storage device for a very long time. But now HDDs are getting replaced with SSD drives.SSD drives outshine HDD...
View ArticleVSAN Beta Grand Contest!
Roughly six weeks remain to participate in the VSAN Beta Grand Contest, going on now through March 1, 2014 - featuring top-quality prizes for the winners: 1st place: Samsung 3D TV 2nd place:...
View ArticleAncho de banda usado por la replicación con vSphere Replication
Muchos clientes preguntan respecto al ancho de banda usado por la replicación de VMs entre CPDs cuando vamos a montar una solución de DR (Disaster Recovery) con SRM.Si la réplica la hacemos a través de...
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Server virtualization nested and tiered hypervisors
Server virtualization nested and tiered hypervisors A few years ago I did a piece (click here) about the then emerging trend of tiered hypervisors, particular using different products or technologies...
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Small Medium Business (SMB) IT continues to gain respect, what about SOHO?
Blog post: Small Medium Business (SMB) IT continues to gain respect, what about SOHO?Note that in Information Technology (IT) conversations there are multiple meanings for SMB including Server Message...
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Goodbye 2013, hello 2014, predictions past, present and future
Good by 2013 and hello 2014 along with predictions past, present and futureFirst, for those who may have missed this, thanks to all who helped make 2013 a great year! Looking back at 2013 I saw a...
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Some Windows Server Storage I/O related commands
Some Windows Server Storage I/O related commands The following are some commands and tools for Microsoft Windows environments that are useful for storage I/O activities (among others). Finding a...
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IoD, IoT, IoE, IoS, IoP, IoU and IoX are in your future
IoD, IoT, IoE, IoS, IoP, IoU and IoX are in your future Have you figured out the new buzzword trend for 2014that starting ramping up in 2013? Yup, its Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of...
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Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage by Microsoft/Storsimple Marc Farley
Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage - A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley The O'Reilly @oreillymedia media folks (oops, excuse me, Microsoft Press) sent me out (that's a disclosure btw) an real...
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10 points about Log Management using VMware vCenter Log Insight
VMware vCenter Log Insight (will term as log Insight) is a tool to play around with log data if you are looking forWhy another tool for Log ManagementLoads of logs is generated by systems all day...
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How to: Become a Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE)
The number of IT job postings in virtualization grows rapidly from year to year showing the demand for specialists with necessary skills and knowledge. To meet this demand, in the beginning of 2014,...
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