I am sitting in Las Vegas , at a round table with some great colleagues today. No not at a poker table, but at yet another Tech Field Day. A Few of the delegates. @Arjantim @ChanEk81 @DeepStorageNet @settlersoman @darkkavenger @RayLucchesi @sfoskett @MBLeib @BenTGage https://tfd.bz/2pXpD82 also we have @davidchapa @ChrisMaki @mcbride_ruairi at the table and @PeytStefanova and @timwaldron…
Netapp Insight 2018 – Keynote Day 1
I am here today at Netapp’s Premier event as both a partner and a Tech Field Day Delegate. This is a live post in progress. They are Kicking off the keynote with some great music. #datadriven They start by kicking off a video about data driven. Netapp ‘s George Kurian kicks it…
Installing Windows Server 2019 on ESXi 6.7
Ok, So lets get a Virtual machine running on ESXi, and what better to start with than a windows server? So I jumped on Microsoft’s evaluation center website and grabbed a copy of server 2019. With iso in hand (on disk anyway) lets connect to an ESXi host and start building. Firing up Vmware Workstation…
Pre SpiceWorld Thoughts
As I sit here watching some college football and trying to size up my expectations for SpiceWorld 2018 next week, along with what I hope to get out of my opportunity to attend, I keep trying to compare it to other conferences I’ve been to. In terms of attendance it seems bigger significantly than Infoblox’s…
VMware vForum Online on October 9 2018
VMware is having their latest online vForum on October 9 2018. If you have never been to one of these, I come to think of it as a mini VMworld online. You have a virtual exhibit hall where you can see offerings from vendors and even chat with them. There are breakout sessions and even…
Change Host Hostname and DNS in vSphere 6.7 in vCenter.
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…
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: 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…
Installing a server on our hypervisor with vSphere 6.0
Installing a server on our hypervisor with vSphere So, where are we? We have a virtual server with exsi hypervisor running on as a base for a virtual lab, now as a (out of touch) windows domain admin i think installing windows server to refresh myself is a good a place as any to start.…
Hypervisor installed, what now?
Hypervisor installed so what now? Well a hypervisor has one purpose, host and allocate resources to virtual machines. so to do that we need some way to manage the hypervisor and the virtual hardware it will provide How do we manage esxi? well looking at the splash screen on the esxi server we have a…