With the release of vSphere 6.7, The interface looks a bit different. Thus , I thought I would do a write up on how to change a ESXi Host’s Hostname and DNS in vSphere 6.7 within vCenter. We are going to use the HTML 5 interface. Lets expand to the host…
E8 Storage Announces InfiniBand Support Extending High Performance Compute (HPC) Options for New and Existing Customers
Big news from growing storage player, E8. Bringing InfiniBand to its blazingly fast storage solutions. In a very welcome move E8 have announced added support for InfiniBand to their storage solutions for customers looking to leverage the blazing speed of the centralized NVMe flash only storage, in storage intensive workloads via the speed of InfiniBand.…
How To Properly Shutdown vCenter Appliance 6.5
OK so this may seem like a stupid thing to post about but I have been out of the VMware game for a little over a year now. I have been dabbling in it a bit again as we are building a lab at work. I installed the vCenter Appliance today and I needed to…
Installing ESXI 6.5
OK, So its been a while and now the holidays are over i’m back on it, so after discovering that there were significant changes between ESXI 6.0 and 6.5 I decided it was time to start over with 6.5. so without further ado lets rebuild my virtual lab and get a hypervisor installed. As a…
Repost: Avere Systems is Acquired by Microsoft
Big congratulations to Avere Systems, who recently announced their acquisition by Microsoft. Avere is a company I’ve followed since inception in 2008. Their technology started as an edge NAS filer, extending data centre content to branch offices. Over time, the platform became virtual and moved to the public cloud. Today, vFXT (the cloud instance of…
Looking Forward to 2018
Looking Forward to 2018…. 2017 was the year of virtualization, the days of buying dedicated hardware is coming to a close. and I can only see this continuing as the power of virtualization is clear for all to see, dedicated task orientated servers are relics from the past being phased out in all sectors. Virtualization…
New Tintri FlexDrive Lets Customers Expand All-Flash Storage Capacity One Drive at a Time
New Tintri FlexDrive Lets Customers Expand All-Flash Storage Capacity One Drive at a Time Organizations simply insert drives and click-to-expand storage capacity Exciting news for Tintri customers, and potential costomers alike, Tintri, a leading player in enterprise storage solutions have announced this morning an exciting development allowing much more granular and affordable storage for enterprises.…
repost: VMware ESXi Release and Build Number History as of Dec 15 2017
Repost: VMware ESXi Release and Build Number History as of Dec 15 2017 The following listings are a comprehensive collection of the flagship hypervisor product by VMware. All bold versions are downloadable releases. All patches have been named by their release names. Please note that the ESXi hypervisor is available since version 3.5. So…
FAQ: Discontinuation of third party vSwitch program (2149722)
While looking at NSX resources, I ran across this , and thought it was worth sharing. Thus, if your running a third party vSwitch, migrate… ” FAQ What is happening with VMware’s third Party Virtual Switch Program? VMware is discontinuing its third party virtual switch (vSwitch) program. VMware plans to deprecate the APIs in…
Scale Computing Release HC3 Unity
Scale Computing have teamed up with Google to leverage it’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to bring ultimate IT agility. In recently announced news Scale Computing and Google have teamed up to bring us HC3 Unity an extension to Scale’s excellent Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solution HC3. This seamlessly integrates HC3’s on premises cloud solution with…