Reference Posters from VMworld 2011
During VMworld 2011 event VMware handed out PowerCLI and vSphere ESXi CLI reference poster. They can be downloaded from the following location PowerCLI 5.0 Reference Poster vSphere CLI ESXi5.0 Reference Poster
VMware vCenter Server Appliance Installation and Configuration
VMware vCenter Server Appliance As as alternative to installing vCenter Server on a windows machine, you can download the VMware vCenter Server appliance. It is a preconfigured Linux based VM optimized for running vCenter Server. Prerequisites vSphere Client is already installed You can deploy vCenter Appliance only on hosts that are running ESX version […]
Installing ESXi 5.0 Best pratices
With the release of vSpehre 5, there are going to be lot of people planning/testing the new product. The following KB article from VMware provides best practices that one needs to follow for installing ESXi. It also provides some good links to VMware compatibility guide. In my humble opinion everybody should go through this KB […]
warning for ESXi Shell and SSH appear on an ESXi 5 host
In my lab environment, I saw that one my of Esxi host is a showing a warning message that Remote SSH and ESXi Shell for the host has been enabled. Now this is a very good and helpful message. This helps the administrators to know that remote access has been enabled just in case they […]
VMworld 2011/Vegas Experience
It was amazing to attend VMworld 2011. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. In fact I stayed in Vegas for 10 days. It was a business/pleasure trip. Here are the few take away points from my VMworld/Vegas experience 1) Try to book your trip via Priceline, I got a good deal from them. 2) […]
