Well, I finally got my server up and running at our datacenter, I wanted to then hook it up a vCenter server running at my house. All seemed well, I got DNS and firewall ports all set, then finally connected my host to vCenter. Shortly after, to my dismay, my host suddenly disconnected. I tried [...]
I always forget how to do this when I have to, which was last week. I thought I’d use my blog to keep track of this needed task. In vCenter, you are not allowed to use Microsoft SQL Server’s default master database when configuring vCenter, so you have to end up creating a new one [...]
This hit me like a sack of bricks, I looked for this before and never found any way of doing it, but I just happened to have found some articles from early last year that showed it was supported. As I’m writing this I’m getting a fully set up UEC cloud going, the proof is [...]
This post is merely a first impression comparison between the XenServer and VMware ESXi. The reason I chose ESXi is it’s a free version, as is XenServer, both are quite advanced compared to other software at this price. Among other reasons I also chose it because of the console VMware is aiming towards, which XenServer [...]
Been meaning to do this since I first saw it when messing around with ESXi, but never got around to it. As of now it’s actually called the HP StorageWorks P4000 virtual SAN, way too long. After a quick registration, you can download it from here. The website states that it is a 60 day [...]
I had a bit of a perdicament yesterday with my network, so I wanted to do some ping tests, but I had forgotten to enable root SSH access when I first did the installs. Luckily Veeam’s RootAccess software saved my day.
Chad Sakac has posted in his blog that there is a new version of the Celerra VSA which should boost performace in many ways from the details he explained, take a look. I’ll be posting a tutorial on adding storage to this based on my experience now that I have found out to later so [...]
Now that my ESX servers are setup, I’m setting up my storage. As I might have said before, I’d like to segregate my storage traffic on another VLAN. Having just plugged the cables in I had never bothered to check which NIC had what relationship with the VMNICs and on what ports they were on. [...]
Woohoo. I was just asking myself when is vSphere going to have IO management? Here’s a wonderful blog post about it.
As a follow up to my previous post, here’s one way of doing it via virsh.