I got confirmation I’m registered to the next VMworld, that will be held in Copenhagen 18-20 October (17 for Partners like us). I’ve created my session schedule, and I wrote down some of the stands I want to visit. An offer for those not coming to VMworld: would you like…
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#ExaGrid: unboxing and start-up
When I first received the ExaGrid EX1000 demo unit, it took me few days before I was comfortably in my lab ready to test it. EX1000 is the smallest unit of the ExaGrid family, it comes with the same software and features of its bigger brothers, and is has 3.5…
HP FlexFabric Embedded Ethernet not recognized by ESXi 4.1
I had to install recently a couple of HP Proliant BL460c G7 with FlexFrabric Embedded Ethernet adapter (dual port 10G), but these nics are not recognized by the ESXi 4.1 Update 1 installer CD. Here you can see only the additional dual port nic (HP nc283m) is recognized: Instead of configuring…
#ExaGrid: an overview
Disclaimer: after these upcoming articles about this technology, Moresi.Com SA, the company I work for, signed an agreement with ExaGrid and we are actually Value Added Reseller of ExaGrid, with the further authorization to directly purchase and sell without any distributor all over Switzerland and Italy. However, I had no…
Veeam Backup 5, still some issues with vSphere 5
As stated in a forum post by Anton Gostev, Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0.2 has still some incompatibilities with the new vSphere 5: • Incremental replication passes to ESXi 5 target fail (initial pass works normally). • Backup in direct SAN access mode will fail for VM disks on VMFS5…
Veeam Backup and timeout error on ESX
If you are still using full ESX servers in your VMware environment, and you want to use Veeam Backup, keep in mind this problem and its solution. When you add an ESX node to Veeam Backup, you are asked for credentials to login to the node, these can be the…
Update ESXi to 5.0 using Update Manager
After upgrading vCenter in a previous post, I used the Update Manager inside vCenter to upgrade in an easy and automated way several ESXi hosts to version 5.0. First of all, we need to import ISO images of ESXi 5.0, previously downloaded. We open then the Admin View of Update Manager,…
Upgrade vCenter from 4.1 to 5.0
I received during the weekend my new license codes for the 5.0 lineup of VMware products, so I tried and found a couple of hours to test the upgrade process of vCenter. This is the first element of a 4.1 cluster you need to upgrade to 5.0, cause it can…