Myself, Scott Lowe and Duncan Epping have been talking offline for some weeks/months about steps that can be done to encourage and support more members […]
Windows Hyper-V 2012 Replicas: Things aren’t always as they seem
As part of my travails in Hyper-V Reality series I decided to take a look at Windows Hyper-V Replicas. The equivalent feature in VMware is […]
Back To Basics: Post-Configuration of vCenter 5.5 Install (PowerCLI)
The next installment of my “Back to Basic” series about doing the typical “post-configuration” of vCenter/ESX this time without web-client, but instead uses VMware’s PowerCLI extensions […]
Back To Basics: Post-Configuration of vCenter 5.5 Install (Web Client)
This is part of my “back to basics” series, I’m covering typical post-configuration tasks you would expect to carry out after the install of vCenter […]
Back To Basics: vCenter 5.5 with MultiSite SSO and Linked Mode Configuration
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 […]
Microsoft #Fail Over Clustering: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V R2 (Part Two)
IMPORTANT: One thing I learned after my setting up my storage is that disks that wind-up using the Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) type must be […]
Schotland Bound – Thursday, 7 November
In just over weeks time I will be off to Schotland, Edinburrrr (I’m trying my best to sound like Sean Connery) for the Edinburgh, VMUG. […]
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 […]