At the Dutch VMUG event 2011 I gave a presentation on how to check your VMware environment to make sure it is healthy. When creating the presentation I had a lot of doubts because I was afraid everyone would think these points were very obvious. But on the other hand, when visiting customers and doing [...]
In my previous post on VMware vSphere5 Auto deploy I explained how to setup an auto deploy environment. This is great for initial setup and to deploy your hosts, but what when an update is released by VMware? The easiest thing is to just delete the deploy rules and recreate them which is ok for [...]
Often I receive book for review and after I read it, it goes on to my bookshelf and just sits there for a long time. With the VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference its a different story. The book contains a lot of scripts which doesn’t make it a reading book you keep on your nightstand. This [...]
In response to my blog post on “vSphere 5 – How to run ESXi stateless with vSphere Auto Deploy“, I received a comment from Rob Ellison, who ran into issues when PXE booting through a Cisco ASA firewall. In a second comment he explained how he solved the issue. Turned out there was an issue [...]
A great new feature of vSphere 5 is the possibility to run ESXi stateless. Long, long time ago when ESX 3.0 was hip, we would all install ESX on the local harddisk (or SAN disk). With ESX 3.5, the first ESXi version was released but only few were using it. With 4.x ESXi really got [...]
