randomly creation and deletion of files
So at work we mainly have a virtual set up. We have 4 physical servers but as we use vmware esxi we have 20 virtual servers. All are managed by the network admin and we also have outside help if...
View ArticleVirtualization project
We are planning to roll out three virtual servers housing 6 VMs. It's going to be 3 IIS front ends with 3 SQL back ends. The first 4 are going to be a clustered production environment and the last 2...
View ArticleIs there VMware software that can be used on linux?
say linux is the main OS.. can I virtually run windows OS using VMware? I went on the website and stubbled on endless downloads, would be helpful if someone could point me in the right direction.. I'm...
View ArticleVMware vMotion setup
I have the following VMware lab setup - 2x physical servers - 1x NIC on each physical server - ESXi loaded on USB devices and installed in each physical server - 1x hard drive installed in each...
View ArticleVMware ESXi host upgrades
In my home lab I have ESXi hosts running on USB sticks and I want to upgrade them to the latest version. As the hosts are on USB devices I was wondering what options I have to upgrade them. Is it just...
View ArticleVMware Horizon View browser access
Has anyone setup VMware Horizon View 5.3 for linked clones to be access via an internet browser? I have been able to setup the VMware View client without issue but when I am trying to setup a client to...
View ArticleHosted Virtual Lab
Hi Ladies & Gents, I've not been around for a while but I'm looking at kicking my certification studies up a notch, I've been looking at options to rebuild my lab and unfortunately haven't got the...
View ArticleHyper-V Failover Cluster Storage
Can anyone suggest shared storage software that I can use for a Hyper-V lab with a failover cluster. I believe I will need something that supports SCSI-3 PR for the setup...
View ArticleIssues with VMware vSphere monitoring
Hello good folk. Trying here, not sure how far I'll get, but it's worth a go. I have a host managed via vSphere. It has standard alarms configured, so it's trying to detect two power supplies. It only...
View ArticleWhat are peoples experiences with OpenStack?
It's something we are looking at with work, to replace VMware VCD unfortunately. I personally don't get it but as the DevOps guys want complete control (ie taking the orchestration away from the Cloud...
View ArticleNested ESX in the Cloud
Hi, I would like to setup a lab to play around with clustering, vcenter, DRS etc. to save me buying any hardware I was wondering if anyone knows of any public cloud providers that will allow you to run...
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Congratulations to the 2015 vExperts
Just a big shout out to the CertForums recipients of the VMware 2015 vExpert award @Theprof @dales @craigie and me (4th year for me ) Well done guys.
View ArticleA website you can download specific VMs?
I stumbled across a website afew months back where you could download specific VMs running specific versions of software free of charge. I Haven't been able to find this Godly website again, I really...
View ArticleNew Study Machine Questions - Hyper-V
Hi All, I know some of you are very experienced in the virtual world so I am hoping you can help me! I have always used VMWare on my laptop for studying purposes. The laptop runs an i5, 6GB RAM and...
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New Lab Topology
I haven't had much of a chance to work on my new machine but the lab is coming together, slowly. This is what I'm working on right now.
View ArticleMigration?
We're looking into migrating our billing into a cloud app but we don't know how to go about doing this? Is there a company that can help us with the migration? How do we start the process?
View ArticleHyper v in Windows 10
Hi, I have just enable hyper v on my windows 10 host machine. To create a VM for training for my sql server exams. All went well. But now on my host machine when I play my training videos I get a green...
View ArticleVMware Lab Storage - nested ESXi sharing a disk with ESXi Host
I would like to build a home lab capable of supporting various scenarios to enable me to study ESXi & vSphere 6 including all of the cool features such as HA, FT, DRS, VSAN etc. I have deployed a...
View Articletrouble getting latest version of oracle virtualbox to work on win10 &...
Hi, I am currently studying 70-680 config of win7, the training kit suggests using a virtual machine for the exercises. So i have installed a while ago Oracle virtualbox and installed 2 virtual...
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