- esxcli listing - I thought I’d post up a full listing of the esxcli command from vSphere 5. It’s as much for my own future reference, but as 5.0 still isn’t GA I...
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- The design options grow with vCenter 5 - vCenter deployments are likely to change for large companies as they upgrade to vSphere 5. Traditionally vCenter has been installed in one of two designs. The primary decision was whether to split...
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- New Mastering vSphere 5 Book - Great news. Scott Lowe (@scott_lowe) is getting ready to release a new version of his highly successful Mastering vSphere book. The previous version – Mastering VMware vSphere 4 - is probably...
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- Please, let’s change the vCenter hierarchy views - In vSphere there are 4 different inventory views, along with a search option: Hosts and Clusters VMs and Templates Datastores Networking (BTW, why is this not “Networks”?) The primary view,...
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- Recent ESXi articles - I’ve published a number of ESXi specific posts recently. However, I realize that I tend to publish these at weekends or late in the evening, which isn’t optimal for most...
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- How to PXE boot from your trunked vmnic0 - I’ve recently been thinking about the practicalities of PXE booting ESXi servers. Sounds great, but how do you make this work in a typical environment? Using trunked connections on ESXi...
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- “Best Practice” for Persistent ESXi scratch? - This is third post in as many days, regarding the ESXi scratch partition – here is the first and the second. Aaron Delp posed the question – what should be...
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- Check for ESXi scratch persistence - In my last post, I looked at how the ESXi installer may not create a scratch partition if it identifies the local disks as remote during the install. I had...
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- ESXi disks must be “considered local” for scratch to be created - A new KB was released yesterday (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033696), in which I noticed something interesting. ESXi Installable creates a 4 GB Fat16 partition on the target device during installation if there is...
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- Great new MS clustering KB - (Update: BTW, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do like this KB very much, I think it’s an excellent resource.) One of my more popular posts that I wrote a...
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