As Dr. Egon Spengler said in the Ghostbusters movie, “Don’t cross the streams. It’s would be BAD” 🙂 It happens at times to talk with some customers, thinking about the possibility to save the backups of their VMs right into the same SAN where they are used to execute them….
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Howto run the vClient on Mac OS X (or Linux)
It’s now common knowledge the vSphere Web Client is the main and preferred client VMware want us to use. Apart the resistance of users to adopt new tools, there are also two clear situations where you still need the Windows Client: the configuration of an ESXi server not connected to…
VMware admin / Splunk noob: #3 Howto install Splunk for VMware
Even if Splunk is available also in a free edition with some limit, one of those limits is right the lack of the dedicated App for VMware. Splunk in fact has a common baseline for both the versions, and you can enrich it with tons of Apps, some developed directly…
VMware admin / Splunk noob: #2 send ESXi logs to Splunk
In the first post of this series, I explained how to install and configure Splunk. In this second post, I will show you how to ship ESXi logs to a Splunk server. If a ESXi server has a local storage, logs are automatically saved in /var/log. If however a ESXi…
VMware admin / Splunk noob: install and configure Splunk
In a previous post, I described how is possible to manage at best vSphere logs. One of the most powerful tools existing on the market is for sure Splunk. The licensing model of Splunk is based on the daily amount of log an installed system can handle. There is a totally…
How to backup Lotus Domino in Windows using VMware Tools and not VSS
For people managing data protection, VSS is probably one of the best features Microsoft have released in the last 10 years. Since its launch this feature of the operating system have helped a lot in doing applications’ consistent backups, but most of all helped to dismiss all those dedicated agents…
SSDs are more than simple hard disks (and how I found it out the hard way)
This is a story of a disadventure I had that made me cold sweat for several days, but finally ended well… Usually, I shut down my MacBook only when I need to install or update a software that specifically requires a reboot. Standby mode never gave me any problem, and…
How to use a console cable on a MacBook Pro
I’m a Mac user since many years, and I always used MacBook Pro notebooks only. I never had any problems to find good alternatives to each Windows software I was using before, even the less common ones. And just as a last resort, there is always a Virtual Machine (XP…