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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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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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VCP5 Exam Prep – Part 4.1

29 August 2011
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Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 4.1 – Create and Deploy Virtual Machines See also this similar post: Objective 4.1 – Create and Deploy Virtual Machines. Identify capabilities of virtual machine hardware versions (new in vSphere 5) See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide (page 81) and Virtual Machine Hardware Version 8 Identify VMware Tools device drivers (similar as vSphere 4.x) See VMware KB: Overview of VMware Tools Identify methods to access and use a virtual machine console (same as vSphere 4.x) As usual there is the console in the vSphere […]

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Veeam unveils Veeam Backup & Replication v6

22 August 2011
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOfficial announce: Veeam unveils Veeam Backup & Replication v6, extending leadership in virtualization data protection. Veeam Software today unveiled major enhancements in Veeam Backup & Replication™ v6. Probably the most evident new feature is theMulti-hypervisor support (actually limited only to VMware and Windows Server Hyper-V). Note that the vSphere 5 compatibility is not specified, but the related Storage API are not changed (or not too much) and also the v 5.0.2 works “fine” on vSphere General availability of v6 is expected in Q4 2011. For more information and updates prior to GA, go to http://go.veeam.com/v6-backup-replication.

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Virtual CPU and Virtual Cores

22 August 2011
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a physical environment usually the term CPU is used to refer to the physical package (or socket). The real processing unit inside this package are called cores (and not that each core can have inside more ALU and can be seen as more logical cores with hyper-threading feature). More CPU usually define a SMP system, more cores a multi-core CPU, more CPU each with more cores a complex system (usually the NUMA architecture is used in this case). In a virtual enviroment the term vCPU is used to refer to a core assigned to […]

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VCP5 Exam Prep – Part 3.1

17 August 2011
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Reading Time: 5 minutesObjective 3.1 – Configure Shared Storage for vSphere See also those similar posts: Objective 3.1 – Configure Shared Storage for vSphere and Objective 3.1 – Configure Shared Storage for vSphere Identify storage adapters and devices (similar as vSphere 4.x) See the vSphere Storage Guide (page 10). Storage adapters provide connectivity for your ESXi host to a specific storage unit (block oriented) or network. ESXi supports different classes of adapters, including SCSI, SATA, SAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). ESXi accesses the adapters directly through device drivers in the VMkernel. Notice that (block oriented) […]

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VCP5 Exam Prep – Part 2.3

11 August 2011
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Reading Time: 3 minutesObjective 2.3 – Configure vSS and vDS Policies See also those similar posts: Objective 2.3 – Configure vSS and VDS Policies and Objective 2.3 – Configure vSS and vDS Policies Identify common vSS and vDS policies (similar as vSphere 4.x) See the vSphere Networking Guide (page 43). Policies set at the standard switch or distributed port group level apply to all of the port groups on the standard switch or to ports in the distributed port group. The exceptions are the configuration options that are overridden at the standard port group or distributed port level. The blueprint […]

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