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Installing Dell OMSA 6.5 on ESXi 5 using VUM

22 September 2011
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWith ESX/ESXi is possible have several information from the physical hardware (with CIM) and this could be enough in most cases, especially for monitoring (with hardware health) and to gain some inventory info (like the Service Tag of a server). But for some specific tasks (like a RAID rebuild o check of the local storage, or have a detailed inventory of the physical RAM banks) is necessary use the specific native tool from the hardware vendor. For Dell servers, the tool is called OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) and the current version is 6.5. It is […]

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VCP5 Exam Prep – Part 6.2

21 September 2011
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Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 6.2 – Perform Basic vSphere Network Troubleshooting Verify network configuration (same as vSphere 4.x) See VMware Virtual Networking Concepts for basic concepts for standard virtual switches. See Objective 2.2 – Configure vNetwork Distributed Switches for distributed virtual switches. Verify a given virtual machine is configured with the correct network resources (same as vSphere 4.x) See VMware KB: Troubleshooting virtual machine network connection issues and http://damiankarlson.com/vcap-dca4-exam/objective-6-3-troubleshoot-network-performance-and-connectivity/ Troubleshoot virtual switch and port group configuration issues (same as vSphere 4.x) Use previous links. For vmkernel porgroup vmkping […]

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VCP5 Exam Prep – Part 6.1

20 September 2011
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 6.1 – Perform Basic Troubleshooting for ESXi Hosts Identify general ESXi host troubleshooting guidelines (new in vSphere 5) See the vSphere Troubleshooting guide. Troubleshoot common installation issues (new in vSphere 5) For Audodeply see the vSphere Troubleshooting guide (page 20). For other installation is most similar to old version and remember to check requiments and HCL. Monitor ESXi system health (similar as vSphere 4.x) See the vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide (page 25). Export diagnostic information (new in vSphere 5) See the vCenter Server and Host Management […]

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VCP5 Exam Prep – Part 5.6

19 September 2011
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Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 5.6 – Patch and Update ESXi and Virtual Machines See also: Objective 5.6 – Patch and Update ESXi and Virtual Machines. Identify patching requirements for ESXi hosts and virtual machine hardware/tools (similar as vSphere 4.x) Each piece of software need to be patched for different reasons… but the most important are usually the security reasons. For ESXi a patch need that the host is put in maintenance mode and require a host reboot after the patch operation. All those operations can be orchestrated by […]

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Windows 8 – first news and first look

16 September 2011
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Reading Time: 5 minutesAt the BUILD developer conference during this week, Microsoft demonstrated the new version of Windows products (and some related products, like Hyper-V and PowerShell). It is not clear if both the client and the server OS will be released at the same time (rumors say during 2012) and if they have also the same name. But I suppose that the Server OS will use the same naming of previous (so maybe Windows Server 2012?). Windows (client) 8 One curios thing is that Windows 7 and 8 are not related to their NT kernel versions: Windows […]

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Backup Academy: Free data protection training & certification for virtualization

14 September 2011
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeeam has start a free community educational resource site:  Backup Academy. This site provides training on basic principles of virtualization and data protection. These basic principles are presented in a product-neutral fashion, meaning that there are no specific backup products mentioned. The only time specific products are mentioned is when the hypervisors (VMware ESXi, Hyper-V) are mentioned, as well as specific guest operating systems and applications that we need to protect as IT professionals. See the official announce: Backup Academy: Free data protection training & certification for virtualization. I’ve not tried yet the course part […]

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Changes in the blog’s name, but not in the contents

14 September 2011
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs you can see the blog name has changed from Virtual Infrastructure to vInfrastructure, and also the URL has changed from http://virtual-infrastructure.it to the short one http://vinfrastructure.it. But don’t worry, the contents remain the same (and will grow again) and the previous links will still work.

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