Snapshots offer a way of capturing the VM memory and disk state prior to making any changes. It’s particularly useful in situations where the outcome […]
Back To Basics: Common Virtual Machine Settings (Part 3)
This section covers common virtual machine settings and options that every administrator should be aware of. This is by no means exhaustive – but it […]
Back To Basics: Installing VMware Tools (Windows & Linux) (Part 2)
Once the guest operating system has been installed the next step is to install a package called VMware Tools. This package adds drivers and additional […]
Back To Basics: Creating Virtual Machines (Part 1)
It might seem odd at this stage to have section introducing virtual machines. Ideally, this something you already know something about – or else why […]
Back to Basics – vCenter Server Appliance
This post is a bit of funny one – as it really isn’t in series with the rest of my “Back to Basics” posts. It’s […]
Back to Basics – Creating and Managing a Distributed Switch with PowerCLI (9 of 9)
I think this is my post about Distributed Switch in my “Back to Basics” series. At the back of mind I know I’ve yet to […]
Back To Basics: Migrating from Standard Switches to Distributed Switches (8 of 9)
Note: Currently the desktop vSphere Client supports a drag-and-drop move of multiple VMs from one portgroup to another – however, the Web Client does not. […]
Back to Basics: NIOC (Part 7 of 9)
Network I/O controls together with Network Resource Pools allow for a sophisticated management of all the traffic types available on a Distributed Switch. There are […]
Back to Basics: Configuring NetFlow (Part 6 of 9)
From monitoring it is possible to enable the NetFlow protocol on the portgroup. Once enabled, you can configure the NetFlow collection IP address and TCP […]
Back to Basics: Health Check (5 of 9)
Health Check allows vSphere to analyse the attributes of the Distributed Switch, and compare them to the attributes of the physical switch. It can be […]