Preamble Note: I was curious to find out where the image/tale of man sat on a branch, cutting down the very branch he’s sat on […]
The vCloud Suite Digest (Feb, 2013) with Pang Chen and Mike Laverick
With thanks to many sources including: Massimo Re Ferre, Joe Sarabia, Burke Azbill, Andy Steven, Tomas Fojta, Ray Budavari, Omer Kushmaro, Jesse Schachter, Jennifer Galvin, […]
Part 53: My vCloud Journey – Building vSphere vApp in vCloud Director (4 of 4) – VM Networking
So far I’ve concentrated on getting vESX, vCenter, pStorage and vStorage (in the shape of NetApp’s VSA) working within the construct of vApp (vINCEPTION1). What […]
Part 52: My vCloud Journey – Building vSphere vApp in vCloud Director (3 of 4) – Accessing Physical Storage
By now I had the ESX hosts and vCenter up and running in vApp, and I even got so far as adding the vESX hosts […]
Part 51: My vCloud Journey – Building vSphere vApp in vCloud Director (2 of 4)
… In my previous post I mainly focused on setting up the network allow my vESX hosts to work with my pStorage – as well as […]
PowerCLI 5.1 Update2; Distributed vSwitches and vINCEPTION Lab…
One of things I’ve been working on most recently is “nested vESX” – where you run ESX inside a VM running on physical ESX (pESX). […]
vCatchup-Chinwag-Mashup
Last week it was my great pleasure to be the guest of the Sydney and Melbourne VMUGs. We managed to find time in the hetic […]
Part 50: My vCloud Journey – vINCEPTION: Building vSphere vApp (1 of 4) – Physical Storage
I recently got interested in the whole concept of nesting. Nesting is used in virtualization to describe a situation where you run a hypervisor under […]
Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance in vSphere5.1
One of the things I really like about the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is the updating function. VMware Update manager is great for patching ESX […]
Part 49: My vCloud Journey Journal – vApp Customization
Warning: Remember for sysprep to join a VM to the domain you will need to have DHCP on your network where your vApp resides – […]