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27 August

What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5

Written by Marco

At VMworld 2013 VMware announced the new VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 version. Along with more new products. This blog post describes the new features of vSphere ESXi 5.5 and the VMware vCenter 5.5 server. vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements Hot-Pluggable...

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22 August

Veeam launched their new flagship, Veeam Backup & Replication v7

Written by Marco

Last week Veeam launched a new version of Veeam Backup & Replication v7. In this version there are a lot of new features and enhancements. I already created a blog post about the 7 biggest features. See my blog...

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16 August

After partition extend file system displays wrong disk size in Windows

Written by Marco

Recently I was working on a VM that has some free space problems on the Exchange partition of a Windows 2008 SBS server. So I extend the hard disk in VMware and Windows. That’s easy…. I extended the Hard...

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15 August

VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.3 – Troubleshoot Network Performance and Connectivity

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Knowledge Identify vCLI commands and tools used to troubleshoot vSphere networking configurations Identify logs used to troubleshoot network issues Skills and Abilities Utilize net-dvs to troubleshoot vNetwork Distributed Switch configurations Utilize vSphere CLI commands to troubleshoot ESXi network configurations...

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18 July

VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU and Memory Performance

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Knowledge Identify resxtop/esxtop metrics related to memory and CPU Identify vCenter Server Performance Chart metrics related to memory and CPU Skills and Abilities Troubleshoot ESXi host and Virtual Machine CPU performance issues using appropriate metrics Troubleshoot ESXi host and...

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02 July

High write latency on HP StoreVirtual environment with VMware vSphere 5.1

Written by Marco

Last week I started a new project with six new HP StoreVirtual storage nodes (HP P4330G3) and four VMware vSphere 5.1U1 ESXi servers. After successfully installing VMware vCenter 5.1U1 I started to notice a big write latency issue on...

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27 June

VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.1 – Configure, Manage, and Analyze vSphere Log Files

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify vCenter Server log file names and locations Identify ESXi log files names and locations Identify tools used to view vSphere log files Skills and Abilities Generate vCenter Server and ESXi log bundles Use esxcli system syslog to...

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12 June

Solving the “vami.DNS0.vsphere_Management_Assistance_(vMA)” error

Written by Marco

Today I installed a VMware Management Assistance appliance in my home lab. After powering it on the following error message is showing. I started searching and found an VMware KB article that describes the solution. See VMware KB2007012....

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06 June

Template options grayed out

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Today I was trying to remove an old template from my home lab. This was not an easy task because all the options where grayed out. See screenshot of the vSphere Client. This is also the case in the...

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29 May

vExpert 2013 awardees announced

Written by Marco

Last night John Troyer and Corey Romero of VMware announced the vExpert 2013 awards. We’re pleased to announce the list of vExperts for 2013. Each of these vExperts have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a willingness to...

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