Tag: VMware

VCP Preparation and Evernote Peek

I’m getting ready for my next exam and certificate and during my study I created a little tools for better preparation. I’ve imported all “VMware vSphere 5.0 – Configuration Maximums” data in the “Evernote” so it can be use by “Evernote Peek” on iPad devices for preparing for VCP510 exam. It will work as “Flash […]

Updated: December 9, 2011 — 9:47 PM

Migration to host failed with error

As I posted earlier, I have upgraded my lab from VMware vSphere 4.1 to VMware vSphere 5.0; during this upgrade (clean installation in some parts) I added 3rd NICs to hosts and created two vSwitch with one VMKernel for management and storage connection (multipathing) and one dvSwitch for some special VMs and features (FT Logging and vMotion). For […]

Updated: October 10, 2011 — 11:38 AM

VMware FT in Home Lab

Hi, I have upgraded my home lab hosts to the latest VMware ESXi 5.0 few days ago but yesterday I find the time to upgrade my vCenter as well; For some reason I cleaned up everything I made in past and did the clean installation. During this upgrade I bought and added second SSD Drive to […]

Updated: October 7, 2011 — 2:18 PM

Make it easy for vCLI commands

This post is somehow related to VMware vCLI, it’s about making some changes on Windows OS so vCLI commands can be used from any address in command line. By default, when VMware vCLI installed on Windows OS, it will add two addresses in the “PATH”. In “Windows Vista/7/2008/2008 R2” these addresses can be checked by right […]

Updated: August 28, 2011 — 1:04 AM

Can’t change now?

Well, in some cases, you may want to start working with new released “VMware ESXi 5.0” in you home/test lab which already based on vSphere 4.0 (ESX/ESXi 4.x) but you can’t upgrade the white-box/host because of compatibility or … in my case, monitor is not available in time of writing and installing new ESXi for some […]

Updated: August 27, 2011 — 5:39 AM

Every 2 minutes …

I had a problem in my home lab for some times (about several days) but I didn’t find times to look over it. I planned some clean up to do for tonight, this one was one of them; I’ve two physical hosts which I added them to the vCenter; for some reason they disconnected automatically and […]

Updated: August 27, 2011 — 2:47 AM

They finally out to public

Wooow, this week was awesome from different points of view. First one, in the beginning the “VMware vExpert Directory” which is new in this year has published to public. Second one which is important, as everyone waited up to now, VMware finally released it’s “VMware ESXi 5.0” so it’s available from this link so everyone can check […]

Updated: August 26, 2011 — 1:36 AM

Data Center Disaster – Lesson Learned

Well, this post going to have some technical information but it’s more like a document on “what’s happened and what should do”. Our company has multiple “data center design and support” project and three days ago there was disaster in one of them. Customer site consist of: One “HP EVA 8400 – 2C4D” as storage […]

Updated: August 19, 2011 — 3:01 PM

Persian Posts (پست هایی به زبان فارسی)

Well, from now on, I’ll post some info only in “Persian” for my friends and whoever checking this site and knows “Persian”. These information may look a little behind or more simple than English content but I need your feedback on them to improve them. Also I believe that if you are here, you know […]

Updated: August 13, 2011 — 2:57 AM

Little tips on updating hosts using vCLI

Today I make some time free to update my home lab from “VMware ESXi 4.1” to “VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1”. Well, This may look outdated topic or old version as VMware already announced “VMware vSphere 5.0” but I face an “Error”, I thought it may be good to share here. Quick Note: Full process […]

Updated: August 5, 2011 — 2:05 AM