Dump Collector
ESXCLI Basics: Configure Dump Collector Host
Another basic command, but may be useful in stateless environments with no local disk usable for a diagnostic partition. Here is a quick how-to. Connect to your host through SSH […]
vSphere 5
vCenter
Calculating Percentage of Cluster Resources Admission Control Policy for an unbalanced vSphere 5.x cluster
I’ve been working lately on a project for one of our customers and one of the requirements was to reuse as much hardware as possible. This led of course to […]
ESXi 5.1
VMs on nested ESXi 5.x host will not start after upgrade to ESXi 5.1
Recently I upgraded my physical server to ESXi 5.1 and I have been running different VMs on it without any issues. Unfortunately, when I powered on my whole vCenter Site […]
vCenter
Tweaking Java.exe memory usage on vCenter Server 5.1
During the upgrade of my home lab from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.1 I have noticed that there is more memory consumption on my vCenter Server than before the upgrade. […]
Dump Collector
Configure vSphere ESXi Dump Collector
Here is a quick post about configuring the vSphere Dump Collector for your ESXi hosts. I’m not going to cover the installation process because it is really simple and straightforward. […]
ESXi 5
Upgrading from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 5.1 using VMware Update Manager
In-place upgrade of ESXi hosts is quick and simple and well suitable for small environments. However, if you want to upgrade a large number of ESXi hosts without any downtime, […]
vCenter
Install or upgrade the vSphere Web Client
The vSphere Web Client lets you connect to a vCenter Server system to manage your vSphere infrastructure and ESXi hosts through a browser. The vSphere Web Client requires a connection […]
Site Recovery Manager
How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 7: VM Replication
Before we can protect a single virtual machine or a group of virtual machines, the virtual machine files need to be replicated from the Protected Site to the Recovery Site. […]