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I discussed this topic with a group, some people think firmware upgrade is not required if ESXi host working fine, that’s adapted to small business, but I think enterprise can do more better. My ESXi running on HP blades, I’ll use that platform for example to share my thought and experience. Why you need a…
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First, I would like to recommend DELL M4800 for small home lab, I spent lot of time to looking for a solution for my lab, I need some hardware low noise, low weight, and it is better portable. I checked out HP mini server, Apple MAC mini, Mac book pro…etc. They are nice products to…
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Finally I implemented Hyper-V 2012 and SCVMM 2012 R2 on my lab, unfortunately FreeNAS does not supports SCSI-3 persistent reservation of Windows Server 2012 R2, you can refer bug #4003. It lead to my iSCSI storage cannot be brought online in Failover Cluster. I have to find out alternative. I decided to use Windows Server…
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I think Windows Server 2012 will be next popular server OS just like Windows Server 2008, it’s also a nice hypervisor OS on virtual world. How do you think? Installation is first step to experience the wonderful OS, you may see some strange problem during that step just like me. Today’s topic occurred long time…
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About one month ago, I requested Google AdSense for my blog, I almost forgot that request due to the busy life. My friend Saju told me his IT blog has Google AdSense, that’s reminded me I have a pending AdSense. It was blank after I set it up in my blog, Today morning it’s finally…
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VCE just released a new KB vce2563 to description the issue. If your ESXi 5.x hosts is connected on VMAX running Enginuity 5876.159.102 and later, you may see this particular issue after reboot ESXi host or attach storage if you enabled block delete feature of VAAI. To check the option status you can run following command on…
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Windows Server 2012, the biggest competitor of VMware vSphere. There are adequate reason to use Hyper-V 2012 instead of vSphere 5.x, but it’s still very hard to for newbie, we spend more than 30 hours to try figure out how to create cluster on SCVMM 2012 SP1, the software is easy to install, but hard…
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1. create a file with name “Profile.ps1” under %windir%system32WindowsPowerShellv1.0profile.ps1 2. Add following content to the file. # Adds the base cmdlets Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core # Add the following if you want to do things with Update Manager #Add-PSSnapin VMware.VumAutomation # This script adds some helper functions and sets the appearance. You can pick and choose parts…
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There are lot of articles introduce vSAN feature and steps by steps guide. I referred William Lam’s article & Duncan’s article to configure vSAN on my lab, I was true I exactly followed his steps to configure the vSAN, but I can not saw anything under disk field under Disk Management. Please note: Following steps does not…
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NTP service is very important for troubleshooting, vmkernel log timestamp is incorrect if your NTP service is not running and ESXi system time is wrong. It can also impact to VM system time even you disable time synchronization on VMware Tools since VM still need to sync time with ESXi after awake from suspended status,…