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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Inspired by an article at NTPRO.NL I decided that my VMware home lab was in need of a major upgrade but I could not make my mind up on which Shuttle barebone model I would buy. Time passed on and then Shuttle came out recently with the SX58J3 model. An ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
In an iSCSI setup (software initiator or HBA), if your host has more than one pNIC, there are two types of configuration you can build. First one a two vSwitches type of configuration where you have a separate vSwitch for each network adapter and VMKernel iSCSI port pair in a 1:1 mapping as shown ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
You may have noticed that in vSphere 4.1 you have an Advanced button available in the iSCSI Initiator Properties window. Many of these advanced settings are just unknown to me so I started googling for more info and here are their meanings: Header Digest – Can take values Prohibited, Discouraged, Preferred ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Whenever you try to install Oracle Database Client 10g Release 2 (10.2) on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 it fails miserably with the following error message: Looks like the Oracle Universal Installer doesn’t support yet Windows 2008 R2 x64 although it does support Windows 2008 x64 No worries, here is ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
This is not a secret anymore for a long time now and there are many sites out there that will show you how to install VMware ESXi3.5 and ESXi4.0 on a USB key. My favorite article about this topic remains Duncan Epping’s article at yellow-bricks.com Now with ESXi4.1 there is ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
I was asked recently a question about the implications of the Block Size and the File Size when formatting a VMFS datastore and my answer was partially wrong. So I decided to deep dive into this matter over the week-end and came up with an article and a video which I hope ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Now that vSphere ESXi 4.1 is out and available for download here, I wanted to upgrade my home lab with the latest release. Whilst ISO’s got downloaded, I searched VMware KB for any tips on how to perform the upgrade and I found KB1022140: Upgrading ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 The KB article comes ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Twitter is good! Twitter is great! Today, late in the evening my time, I started to read tweets about a major security issue within ESX4.1.0. It all started with a post from nirvy in a VMware forum followed by an article and a tweet from lamw that I encourage you ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
In StorageVIEW from VKernel – Part I I introduced you to VKernel StorageVIEW, a free tool which provides you with latency information as indicator of problem with host/datastore pair connected through FC, iSCSI and also NFS for up to five host to datastore links with the greatest latency. That being said let’s have ...
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
There are many scripts and commands listed in the /sbin folder on an ESXi4 host and many are just unknown for the majority of us, including me. I wanted to dig in and ran all of them just to ‘see’ what they do. I’ve intentionally left out in this article all the ...
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