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SRM

How to Upgrade Site Recovery Manager – The correct order

Graham
When upgrading SRM, it must be done in a very specific order, following the below (from the official documentation for VMware SRM 5.8) In summary you upgrade everything except your hosts on the Protected site, then the same at the DR Site. Finally Upgrade the ESXi hosts at the DR...
Dell EMC

Dell iDRAC Automation with RACADM

Graham
Since as far back as I can remember, Dell have made available a CLI for their iDRACs. This means we can easily automate the configuration of the Dell iDRAC remotely. This is key for a number of reasons: Speed of server deployment. We can deploy servers much faster by automating...
Dell EMC

Dell PowerEdge Range – Naming scheme

Graham
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...
CertificationvSphere

VCAP6-DCV Design Exam Preparation

Graham
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

Graham
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

Graham
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?

Graham
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

Graham
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...
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