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New to Mac? Get some Apps!

By on March 17, 2012 in Uncategorized

As I have grown up on MS operating systems and based the early part of my professional career on them I have never really given much thought on using or purchasing a Mac powered laptop or desktop. That all changed last weekend when I picked myself up a 13 inch MacBook Air. You might wonder [...]

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Installing vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.4.6 (Part 1)

By on February 28, 2012 in VMware

Protecting VMware vCenter When it comes to protecting VMware vCenter you are limited to just two VMware supported options (from my understanding, if this is incorrect please let me know), using VMware High Availability (HA) or VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat. Now I know some might bring up the VMware KB article 1024051 “Supported VirtualCenter high [...]

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Checking up on Multi NIC vMotion

By on February 21, 2012 in VMware

vSphere 5 has now been GA pretty close to five months now, and during the initial launch the main discussion topic was around the “vRAM entitlements”. After that subsided more of the focus actually turned to the great new features that vSphere 5 was bringing to the table. First and foremost (in my mind) was [...]

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SSD Performance in the vSphere Home Lab

By on February 19, 2012 in Storage, VMware

Last weekend I was poking around on the Newegg website and noticed that they were having a sale on Crucial SSD drives. I have wanted to purchase SSD’s for my ESXi host boxes but that was more out of a want then a need based on SSD pricing. That quickly changed after I found the [...]

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New Year, New Opportunity

By on January 16, 2012 in Uncategorized

There is always so much optimism at the beginning of a new year. That feeling of starting off with a clean slate and ability to make the changes you want to make. For me it is the chance to start off with a new opportunity. After working for my current employer for three years I [...]

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VCP 5 Objective 6.1 – Perform Basic Troubleshooting for ESXi Hosts

By on January 12, 2012 in VCP 5, VMware

Objective 6.1 – Perform Basic Troubleshooting for ESXi Hosts For this objective I used the following resources: vSphere Monitoring and Performance vSphere Troubleshooting VMware White Paper “The Architecture of VMware ESXi” VMware Support Insider Blog VMware KB Article 2000988 (Troubleshooting vSphere Auto Deploy) VMware KB Article 1011641 (Collecting Diagnostic Information for VMware vCenter Server) VMware [...]

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VCP 5 Objective 6.2 – Perform Basic vSphere Network Troubleshooting

By on January 9, 2012 in VCP 5, VMware

Objective 6.2 – Perform Basic vSphere Network Troubleshooting For this objective I used the following resources: VCP 5, Section 2 – Plan and Configure vSphere Networking VMware Information Guide “VMware Virtual Networking Concepts” VMware KB Article 1003893 (Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Network Connection Issues) VMware KB Article 1001938 (ESX/ESXi Host Requirements for Link Aggregation) VMware KB [...]

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VCP 5 Objective 6.3 – Perform Basic vSphere Storage Troubleshooting

By on December 14, 2011 in VCP 5, VMware

Objective 6.3 – Perform Basic vSphere Storage Troubleshooting For this objective I used the following resources: vSphere Monitoring and Performance vSphere Storage vSphere Troubleshooting VMware KB Article 1008205 (Using ESXTOP to identify storage performance issues) VMware KB Article 1003728 (Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command) VMware KB Article 1020692 (Frequent path state changes [...]

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