Background This will be a short article for those who need to replace the driver used for MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i on ESXi 6. MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i is the default controller used in Softlayer and if your plan is to run vSphere 6 with VSAN on it, you need to know some… Continue reading
As you may know, ESXi Management interface (aka vmk0) is created during installation. By default that interface will inherit MAC address of one of the physical NIC cards. Now, this is not a problem at all in most cases, but sometimes it can create problems. For example imagine a situation… Continue reading
In a data center migration project the storage teams as well as the target VMware team were constantly requesting information for the VMs in each migration group. Along with the basic VM info such as vCPUs, memory, provisioned space, guest OS, they required more details for the VMDKs – datastore,… Continue reading
Recently I had an interesting situation where a specific error message occurs where standard approach for Load Balancer was used This document is to explain how to complete HTTPS over vCloud Air Load Balancer throughout to Web servers using Pool Side SSL. Usually we use Load Balancer with the following configuration:… Continue reading
To all fans of our blogging platform www.thevirtualist.org, we are happy to run for a place in Top vBlog 2016 contest and even happier in case you support us and click the poll voting for our platform. Just to pick the most favorite articles of yours (the most read in 2016): 10 things you need… Continue reading
A couple of months ago, after a migration from our legacy vSphere environment into our brand new vSphere based on IBM/Lenovo Flex Systems environment. Some of the our VMs stopped or were randomly responding on the network. My networking team discovered those VMs have duplicate MAC addressees with another VMs.… Continue reading
I’m in the middle of the project where I need to split up my environment into two vCenters so I decided to update part of it to vSphere 6.0 to ease up my work and operations tasks later on. I do have a stretched infrastructure across the datacenters including storage… Continue reading
Possibility of cross vCenter vMotion is quite popular among customers. But the thing is that most of the times the vCenters, or the environments managed by those vCenters, are in different sites or locations. This simply means they do not share same vMotion network. Which means vMotion traffic needs to… Continue reading
It was more than a month waiting for general availability of VMware Horizon 7. What is new in the new suite you can find here. I’m not going through all details in the installation and configuration, but I will try to highlight the new features. Installation of the product is pretty… Continue reading
VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is a term used to describe a specific field of virtualization, which deals with creating and maintaining virtual desktops within an organization’s IT environment. The process involves the migration of desktop operating systems from physical computing resources to Virtual Machines, or VMs, hosted on centralized servers.… Continue reading
