I Just Bought Some Kitchen Faucets/Hypervisors
A few weeks ago I discovered leak in one of my kitchen faucets. At the time I managed to fix it - but it was evident, it would not hold for long, so I needed to get new ones. The previous ones had …
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So how long does it take you to install vCenter, not using the VCSA, but the Windows package? How many manual steps does it require you to perform? Have you actually ever counted? It is quite a lot. …
Migration Path for the VCSA from vPostgres to.. ??
Wait… there is no way to do that – is there? Today I would like to address a point that is perhaps pretty obvious but not really well known, and that is the lack of a migration path out of the vCenter …
Please do not vote for Me!
Really – I mean it!! The Twitterverse exploded this morning with @ericsiebert’s announcement: Voting now open for the 2013 top VMware & virtualization blogs (Read his post – with detailed …
Host Profiles Should Become a Standard Feature
Can you name the features that are only available in vSphere Enterprise Plus edition? If you need a reminder you can get the information here Storage I/O Control Network I/O Control Distributed …
Welcome to Our New Sponsor - Zerto
I would like to thank Zerto and extend them a warm welcome for sponsoring my blog. Below is a (very) short video explaining what they do Zerto Hypervisor-Based Replication from Zerto on Vimeo. I first …
The 99c/Hour Computer vs. Buy Your Own Server (BYOS)
Amazon announced a few days ago the availability of EC2 for In-Memory Computing - The High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance, here are the specs: Two Intel E5-2670 processors running at 2.6 …
DevOpsCon 2013
Today I attended the DevOpsCon 2013 in Hertzliya, Israel. As you can see from the agenda there was an abundance of great sessions and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. This was not like most of the …
Error Removing Nexus 1000V VEM
I encountered this last week and was not find any reference to my specific problem – so I am documenting it here. I was trying to remove the Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM from the ESXi hosts in my lab. This …
Configuring SSH Equivalence for Oracle RAC
SSH Equivalence is one of the pre-requisites needed for an Oracle RAC installation. There are a number of posts on how to do this like here or here, and Oracle even have been so kind as to provide a …