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As you already know, new version of VMware vSphere is generally available. So how the upgrade procedure work? It is the same as it always was. You need to upgrade both crucial components of [...]

Yes, new version of VMware vSphere was recently announced! There are many changes but from my perspective the biggest change is, that HTML5 interface is almost done. According to VMware you [...]

Keeping your infrastructure up-to-date is one of the crucial tasks of day to day operations of every system administrator. Path management and compliance checks of the environment is usually long [...]

PowerCLI was around for years. At the beginning VMware used name vSphere PowerCLI but over the years more and more modules ware added to support not only vSphere but other products. So, with this [...]

Sometimes it might happen that default installation image do not contain all necessary software packages you would like to install directly with the ESXi server itself. There are several [...]

Many of us have still doubts how to handle traffic like VMotion or iSCSI. Should I use L2 and connection or can I route such traffic over L3? In the past VMotion over L3 was not officially [...]

Sometimes you need to run your ESXi server in evaluation mode for longer time then standard 60 days. It might be because of extensive testing or your project gets into the delays. Fortunately, [...]

Today many companies are deploying infrastructures based on Metro Cluster (also known as Stretched Cluster). This approach is getting more and more popular since it eliminates possible downtime [...]

Today we will talk about lockdown mode. Although lockdown mode has been around for several years not many people are actually using that feature either because they do not even know that it [...]

Duncan Epping recently updated official whitepaper regarding iSCSI best practices that describes how to correctly present iSCSI based storage arrays to VMware vSphere cluster. Definitely [...]