VCP 6 Study Note – VM migration (Cold, vMotion, svMotion, EVC)
The added value for a server to be virtualized in a vSphere environment is the agility to move itself across physical environment with near zero downtime. vSphere started talking about…
VCP 6 Study Note – Multiple ways to install ESXi
All of us know the direct installation via media, which is the most used by many folks during “poor” cluster installation (up to 6 nodes installation). But in this post…
VCP 6 Study Note – Advanced Networking Concepts Part2 : Backup restore and recovery management
Backup and restore network configuration vSphere 5.1 and later enables you to backup and restore the configuration of a vSphere Distributed Switch. It’s possible to restore the virtual network configuration…
VCP 6 Study Note – Advanced Networking Concepts Part1 : Networking policies, LACP Support
I’m writing this post to highlight some advanced vSphere topics during my VCP6 Study. Sources for this post are: vSphere 6 Official Docs (https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-35B40B0B-0C13-43B2-BC85-18C9C91BE2D4.html) KB 2051826 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2051826 KB 2034277 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2034277…
Boring vSphere client issue on Windows 10
New vSphere version comes with a powerful web user interface, and this blog post could be “outdated”. But a great part of sysadmins, which use C# Client on Windows 10…
Remote management with PowerShell
In this post I’ll show how to connect to remote systems using local/AD credential with Powershell. To successfully connect to remote system you should have a local/AD Administrator account be…
How to module and function with Powershell
For first timer, like me, in Powershell this could be a starting point for quite serious developing. Just to know: Powershell previously was made for Windows automation tasks and was…
VMUGIT UserCon 2016 sold-out
A distanza di qualche settimana dall’evento non poteva mancare un post con le mie considerazioni. In una sola frase: quest’anno con circa 350 persone abbiamo segnato il record di presenze…
Tech Field Day Extra VMworld 2016 Europe – Nimble Storage
What’s Nimble Storage? Storage capacity and IOPS are critical application elements, that combined with compute and networking could lack or meet the application performance. Focusing on overall storage performance it’s…