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19 mars 2012

Disponibilité de VMware vSphere 5 Update 1

Pour information, j'ai vu passer la disponibilité de la mise à jour vCenter 5 U1 et vSphere ESXi 5 u1 : http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0 ESXi 5 U1 Release Notes : http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsp_esxi50_u1_rel_notes.html...
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17 février 2012

VMware : Dell MD3200/MD1200 6Gb/sec Shared SAS performance tests

We recently acquired a Dell MD3200 and MD1200 6Gb/sec shared SAS storage system and I have spent a couple of days setting up some tests to see how it compares to our old iSCSI EMC Clariion. Wasn't really a fair fight, given that the EMC had 500GB 7200rpm...
25 janvier 2012

RAID10 requirement for vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) relaxed!

For those of you considering the vSphere Storage Appliance as a shared storage solution, I bring you a piece of very good news. The RAID10 configuration requirement on the hosts has now been relaxed. As of today, VMware will now support RAID5 & RAID6...
10 janvier 2012

livre "VMware vSphere5" en français

Ce lundi 9 jan vier, c'est la sor tie du livre en fran çais "VMware vSphere 5 - au sein du Data cen ter" aux éditions ENI.Les ouvrages de ce type en fran çais son tel le ment rare que s'en est qua si ment un événement. Eric Maillé remet ça pour une deuxième...
21 décembre 2011

VM Start-up script

ack in Jan 2010 I wrote a script which shut down the virtual infrastructure, this was used to ensure your VMs were shut down and then your hosts were shut down in an orderly manner, ideal for things like UPS shutdown scripts etc. A slight spin on that...
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21 décembre 2011

Top KB pour vSphere5

Ca fait plus de 4 mois que vSphere 5 est sorti et même si la sta bi lité de cette pla te forme n'est plus à démon trer, il est tou jours bon de jeter un coup d’œil du coté des KB avant son ins tal la tion ou son upgrade. Fai sant suite aux pré sen ta...
5 décembre 2011

Why can you not use NIC Teaming with iSCSI Binding?

Why can you not use NIC Teaming with iSCSI Binding?
I had an interesting discussion recently with a number of my colleagues around the requirement to place additional uplinks (vmnics) on a virtual switch that are not used by iSCSI binding into the 'Unused' state. One would think that it might be useful...
29 novembre 2011

How to create your own .vib files

* Be warned, this is totally unsupported. Only for educational purposes should this be used ** Today I was asked the question on how to create a .vib file. In our documentation it is mentioned that you can create a .vib file to add firewall rules to your...
29 novembre 2011

Petite note personnelle : VCP 5 OK!

Bonsoir, Juste une petite note pour annoncer que j'ai passé cet après midi la certification VCP 5 avec succès! Pas facile encore cette certification, mais à coeur vaillant... J'espère que j'aurai de nouveau droit à une licence VMware Workstation ;)
29 novembre 2011

How to configure ESXi to boot via Software iSCSI?

VMware introduced support for iSCSI back in the ESX 3.x days. However, ESX could only boot from an iSCSI LUN if a hardware iSCSI adapter was used. Hosts could not boot via VMware's iSCSI driver using a NIC with special iSCSI capabilities. It quickly became...
29 novembre 2011

DELL's Multipath Extension Module for EqualLogic now supports vSphere 5.0

DELL recently released their new Multipath Extension Module (MEM) for the EqualLogic PS Series of storage array. This updated MEM now supports vSphere 5.0. I guess I should try to explain what a MEM is before going any further. VMware implements a Pluggable...
22 novembre 2011

Using the vCenter Appliance for the Web Client?

Today on twitter there was a discussion around having an appliance for the vSphere Web Client. I didn’t get the question as there’s already a vCenter Appliance out there. Apparently not everyone realised that the Web Client is part of the vCenter Appliance....
13 novembre 2011

How To Pass The VCP5 Exam

here are so many good technical certifications out there today that it can be a daunting task to know which certifications path to take. If you are looking for a virtualization based certification path, the decision is a much easier one to make. VMware...
5 novembre 2011

Activate multi-NIC vMotion in ESXi 5

n vSphere 5 we have support for using multiple Vmkernel ports enabled for vMotion. Having more than one physical network card for vMotion allows us to utilize them simultaneous, even when only transferring a single virtual machine. If having spare NICs...
5 novembre 2011

Release: VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2

Even though ESXi 5 is already released, VMware stil releases updates for ESXi 4, in this case Update 2. This version is the follow up of Update 1 released in February this year. --> Please see the rest on the blog : http://virtualization.info/en/news...
27 octobre 2011

Optimize Storage vMotion and VM deploy with VAAI

In this article we will look in some detail at the new features for offloading storage workloads to the SAN array. This is called VAAI – vStorage APIs for Array Integration and enables the ESXi host to hand over some work to the SAN which the SAN array...
21 septembre 2011

vSphere 5.0 + View 5.0 vMotion Fail

There is a bug in the way the object buffer cache size is calculated for vMotion. This bug only appears with Hardware version 8 virtual desktops with large screen resolutions, however only if 3D is disabled. When 3D is enabled ESxi5 takes the necessary...
12 septembre 2011

VMware Management with PowerCLI 5.0

As VMware expands its PowerShell offering, known as PowerCLI, the poster has been a key resource for keeping the details close to hand and ensuring the help is right in front of you when you need it. An updated poster was released at VMworld and adds...
5 septembre 2011

VMworld: nouvelles précisions sur les licences VMware vSphere 5

Certains la baptisent méchamment 'vTax'... La tarification de VMware vSphere 5 est-elle abusive? Retour et précisions La dernière mise à jour du modèle de licence de VMware vSphere 5 suscite bien des réflexions – dont certaines fort caustiques. D’aucuns...
25 août 2011

Using vSphere 5 auto-deploy in your home lab

I was just playing around with auto-deploy and I figured I would quickly scribble down the steps required to configure it. The documentation is okay but it often refers me back and forth in the document which makes it difficult to read at times. Here...
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