IMPORTANT: In order for “Linked Mode” to work during installation the user account carrying out the installation needs rights to both installations. To quote from the […]
Active Directory without Microsoft: An open source alternative to Bill Gates for your home lab
Guest blogpost by Graham French Graham F French is an IT veteran of almost two decades and specialises in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure technologies. He […]
Back To Basics: Installing vCenter 5.5 (Windows Installable Edition)
Introduction In this blogpost I’m going to walk you though the installation of vCenter 5.5 for Windows. My take on this is – if your […]
Back To Basics: Managing VMware ESXi 5.5 Direct User Interface (DCUI)
The Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) is the front-end management system that allows for some basic configuration changes and troubleshooting options should the VMware ESXi […]
vSphere 5.5 Client and WindowsXP/Windows2003 – Unknown Connection Error
If you try to install the new vSphere5.5 C# Client to WindowsXP/Windows 2003, you will receive warning during the installation of possible problems. The problems […]
My VMworld 2013 EU Session List…
Well, I’m getting ready for the tip. Bags are packed, boarding passes printed etc. Heading of this year VMworld 2013 in Barcelona. Not sure if […]
Back To Basics: Install VMware ESXi 5.5
Since I stopped being an instructor in 2009, I found myself increasingly distanced from vSphere and core platform. That was partly because of circumstances. My […]
Multi-Hypervisor Management and VM Conversion – Time to stop kicking the tyres?
IMPORTANT: In the process of writing this article, I discovered that VMware MHM 1.1 is incompatible with Windows Hyper-V R2 2012. The issue seems to originate […]
VMworld 2013: What’s New in VSAN 1.0
Honesty Comment: Haven’t I used VSAN yet. No. Been to busy. I’m hoping to return to a homelab soon where I will be deploying the […]
VMworld 2013: What’s new in vSphere5.5: Storage
Note: Special thanks to my esteemed colleague Cormac Hogan for answering some of my questions when I was writing this post. To learn more about […]