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Graham

Dell PowerEdge Range – Naming scheme

GrahamSeptember 12, 2016February 28, 2017

Dell PowerEdge has been a main competitor in the server compute market for some years. Support for VMware's ESXi Hypervisor is forever strong and the HCL always updated. Support for the latest generation CPUs is always included with new releases and the online customization tool is a real selling point...

Certification vSphere

VCAP6-DCV Design Exam Preparation

GrahamSeptember 11, 2016October 22, 2017

For those pursuing the VCAP6-DCV Design exam / 3V0-622 I'm creating a series of blog posts to help with your learning. The notes are all based on the official GA blueprint, my personal experience with the live exam, books and blog posts by other community members all of which I have acknowledged below. If...

vSphere

VMware vSphere VCSA 6.0 – 503 service unavailable via Web Client

GrahamSeptember 10, 2016September 10, 2016

I experienced this issue in my lab this week and it turned out to be that the vmware-psc-client service had not started on my external PSC. I realized this by first checking the logs on the VCSA: SSH to the VCSA and run cat /var/log/vmware/vpxd Notice how there is some error connecting...

Dell EMC

Dell and EMC Merge into Dell EMC

GrahamSeptember 9, 2016February 28, 2017

Since I started working in IT I've always had a preference for Dell for compute and EMC for storage. Why? Probably because I was first introduced to the Dell Server range before HP and Cisco etc, I liked their build quality and logical placement of components. Furthermore I got hands...

vSAN

VMware vSAN – Career changer?

GrahamSeptember 7, 2016

Since starting my career in technology, I've always had a keen interest in virtualization. Over time, the virtualization of other datacenter objects has become more common and affordable. vSphere, Horizon View, NSX to name a couple have assisted with this. More recently vSAN has seen a lot of growth. Duncan Epping @DuncanYB, tweets about this...

vSphere

Choosing the right CPU for your ESXi servers

GrahamAugust 13, 2016

When designing your Virtualization infrastructure, one very important consideration is to the processors that you spec your ESXi hypervisors with. I find that reviewing following points help with this challenge: Determine cost vs performance? What compatibility do you need? Are there any specific features that you require? Cost vs Performance You...

SRM vSphere

End of General Support for VMware vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 Products

GrahamAugust 10, 2016

As of the 24th August 2016 the following VMware products are officially "End of General Support" and will enter a 2 year period of "Technical Guidance" VMware vCenter Server 5.0 and 5.1 VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0 and 5.1 VMware vSphere Replication 5.0 and 5.1...

vSphere

When does VMware support end? (EOL for VMware Products)

GrahamAugust 10, 2016August 10, 2016

Ever wondered when VMware stop supporting certain versions of vCenter Server / ESXi or in fact, any VMware product? Check out the VMware product lifecycle matrix here. Also review this page or the excerpt below for terminology General Support Phase The General Support phase begins on the date of general...

vSphere

Failed to start the virtual machine – Missing VMDK descriptor file

GrahamJuly 27, 2016August 10, 2016

When powering on a VM you may see entries similar to: Failed to start the virtual machine. Module DiskEarly power on failed. Cannot open the disk 'vm.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. The system cannot find the file specified VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk...

SRM

Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 6.1 – Site Pairing Notes

GrahamJuly 27, 2016July 26, 2016

If you think you have a problem where you are unable to pair SRM sites because of an SRM ID registration issue with vCenter server, see the below note: When pairing two SRM sites, select the Live site and click Pair Sites. On this screen remember that you are entering...

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