Last week I was finally able to buy the whiteboxes I wanted for my homelab. Untill then I had one ESX host at home that hosted my basic environment but because of that I couldn’t try other hypervisors the way I wanted to. So I decided to add two more hosts to my lab.
With VMware vSphere there is a new exiting function called VMware Fault Tolerant or VMware FT. With VMware FT you can protect a VM against failure by running this VM in lockstep with an exact copy on a different host. Every interrupt in the source VM is immediately replicated to the destination VM, which is [...]
On the SearchVMware section of TechTarget.com a new tip of mine is published.
“In any VMware ESX environment, VMware ESX hosts within the same cluster must be configured the same way. If a host in a cluster is not properly configured, basic networkingoperations such as or VMotion will fail. Manually installing and configuring new hosts or [...]
This article is written by guest writer: Simon Long.
VMware Workstation is becoming a very good friend of mine since I installed it a few months ago, it makes testing soo much easier and quicker which pleases my boss as I’m not installing and uninstalling software on Production VM’s.
My interest in deploying ESX using EDA (ESX [...]
After reading verbeieren’s blog about vscsiStats, I was very interested to see what this tool could bring me. So I started to play with it and found that I needed some extra hints to get me started. Enough for another blogpost I thought.
With vscsiStats you can monitor the IO through the virtual SCSI controller of [...]
