Nutanix has finished all of the qualification processes to certify VMware ESXi 7.0U2 and ESXi 7.0u2a for Nutanix NX G4, G5, G6 and G7 platforms. Both ESXi versions are supported with Foundation 5.0+ and LCM 2.4.1.1+. For ESXi 7.0U2 (fresh installs only), you need AOS 5.15.5 LTS or AOS 5.19.1+...
Over the years I've written a number of blog posts about replacing the SSL certificates for vSphere. Back in the day it was exceedingly difficult and was very error prone (think 5.x and 6.x). However, VMware has made great strides with vSphere 7 in how you manage certificates. Yippee!For enterprises...
Very recently I decided to completely re-do my home lab hardware, and really step things up a few notches. My previous home lab gear was too old to use for anything useful, so out with old and in with the new! As a result of this new gear, I wanted...
Hot off the press is Nutanix Move 3.0. Now you might be asking what is Nutanix Move 3.0? Move 3.0 is the next major release of the product formerly called Xtract for VMs. Xtract for VMs was a free Nutanix product that enables super easy migration of VMs to the...
This is Part 3 of the SQL 2012 failover clustering series we will configure the required LUNs and iSCSI components, so that Windows Server 2012 can mount the shared LUNs. As I mentioned before, I'm choosing to do in-guest iSCSI for the shared LUNs vice RDMs. RDMs are acceptable as well, and...
Hot off the presses are some ESXi 5.1 patches. This build of ESXi 5.1 (1157734) fixes several bugs and more importantly addresses some security issues. As always in any environment, please test out the patches thoroughly before putting them into production. Each environment is unique, and issues may surface that could cause you some headaches. These...
This was Part 2 of a two part series on comparing VMware and Microsoft virtualization/Cloud offerings. Part 1 was focused on the hypervisor and how Hyper-V and ESXi compare. I had a schedule conflict with part 1, so I didn't attend it. This is part 2, focusing on the private cloud...
It's that time of year again when VMware vExpert 2013 awards are handed out. Last year I was very surprised and honored that my blogging efforts got such recognition and that I made the 2012 list. Since then I've tried to do even more community work, and spent countless hours doing the vSphere 5.1 install...
I'm a huge fan of using vCenter customization specifications to automate the sysprep process for deploying new Microsoft VMs. The sysprep process ensures a unique Windows SID, sets the VM's hostname, and can even join a VM to the domain, among other things. However, the customization specifications can only be...
Windows Server 2012 generation ID is a great new feature that will allow use to safely virtualize a domain controller, on specific hypervisors. One of the really great features that hypervisors have had for ages is the ability to perform snapshots, then roll back to a prior state with a click...
This installment of the 15 part vSphere 5.1 Installation covers some basic VUM configuration that most people will want to do. In Part 12Â we configured VUM to use trusted SSL certificates. Now that the under the covers configuration of VUM is done, we need to perform some basic GUI configuration...
This post will show you how to configure Windows recovery environment VMware drivers. In a previous blog post here I described how to inject VMware pvscsi and VMNET3 mass storage drivers into your Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 image. However, that did not cover injecting the same drivers into the...