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I was lucky enough to take delivery of some new ESXi hosts recently. After installing them in the datacentre, I wanted to test that the network had been patched correctly. This environment is going to have Distributed vSwitches configured, but I wanted to test the physical connectivity before joining them to vCenter- …
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Some highlights from VMware ecosystem and Virtualisation in general from the past 7 days. Announcements, discoveries, and useful bits-and-bobs found on the internet. Week ending 2nd April 2017
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VMware vSphere 6.5 comes with a RESTful API implementation and there’s some great documentation out there- starting with the API Explorer (http://my.vcenter.name/apiexplorer ). Here’s a quick piece on how to use this API to create a VM from the PowerShell command line. This is intentionally not using PowerCLI, just the …
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The deployment of High Availability in the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 is very slick and there’s a great step-by-step walkthrough of how to implement it. However, sometimes things go wrong
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The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5 is a slick, well managed, process. The installer deploys a new appliance, transfers all the settings from the old one (including IP address and identity) and then powers the old appliance VM off. This provides a neat roll-back option if something has gone …
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Wednesday morning and VMworld continues…
Here’s a look at my sessions from another day in Barcelona.
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