After I posted my article yesterday Jason Boche posted a comment about the reboot that was required according to the screenshot. I looked in to it and quickly realized that if I would alter my “descriptor.xml” I would not get this message. In other words, it depends on the package that is installed if a reboot is required or not, [...]
** Be warned, this is totally unsupported. Only for educational purposes should this be used ** Today I was asked the question on how to create a VIB file (.vib). In our documentation it is mentioned that you can create a VIB file to add firewall rules to your ESXi host. As the .vib tool is not available yet to [...]
As multiple people asked for it, Frank and I decided to also put the 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive on sale. Just wanted to inform you guys about it. Here are the links: US – ebook – vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive – $ 4.99 UK - ebook – vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive – £ 3.99 FR - ebook – vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive – [...]
I know there are a lot of crazy deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but this is most definitely the deal of the year for all virtualization fanatics! I just changed the price of the vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive to $ 4.99 and 3.99 for my European friends. Yes that is correct…. Less than 5 dollars for over [...]
Yesterday I received a nice tip from @Shaun_Gee. During the installation of the vSphere Syslog Collector you have to select the max size of the log files and when a rotation will happen. But how do you change this after the installation? The answer is straight forward, but unfortunately not well documented, thanks Shaun for sharing. The vSphere Syslog Collector [...]
Today on twitter there was a discussion around having an appliance for the vSphere Web Client. I didn’t get the question as there’s already a vCenter Appliance out there. Apparently not everyone realised that the Web Client is part of the vCenter Appliance. On top of that you could even split out the components and use the vCenter Appliance just [...]
I was playing around with vShield App and I locked out my vCenter VM which happened to be hosted on the cluster which was protected by vShield App. Yes I know that it is not recommended, but I have a limited amount of compute resources in my lab and I can’t spare a full server just for vCenter so I [...]
