OT: Migrating Windows from SATA to NVMe
Totally off topic from what I normally blog, but thought it might be useful to some people. I’ve just migrated my home PC from a SATA SSD to an NVMe drive, and had some fun as there were some things I...
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RHCSA: Understand and use essential tools
Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax bash shell, case sensitivity, pwd, ls, cd fundamental stuff! Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.) redirect to and...
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vSphere/vCenter 6.5 Announced
While I’m sadly not at VMWorld this year, I’m following the announcements quite closely and it’s fab to see some blog posts already on the VMware blog for the newly launched version 6.5 product....
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ESXi 6 – weird host HA error
I came across a strange fault with VMware HA today, where a host was reporting an error in its ability to support HA, and wouldn’t “Reconfigure for HA” Attempts to perform the reconfigure failed and...
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UK VMUG 2015 Report – part 1
I missed VMworld this year due to a number of reasons, so was determined to attend this years’ UK VMUG to catch up with the VMware community. As usual, there was the community vCurry night, prior to...
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Objective 2.2 – Describe Physical Infrastructure Requirements for a VMware...
Knowledge Identify management and edge cluster requirements Minimum 2 hosts per cluster Minimum 1 vCenter, Optimally one dedicated vCenter for management cluster + one for each NSX domain Management...
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Testing network connectivity from ESXi
Like most people, I’ve always used the “telnet” utility for testing whether a server/tcp port is accessible, when maybe a more complex application is barfing about it. Of course there have been plenty...
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