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Month: November 2015

Wednesday Tidbit: Who turned off Admission Control?

November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 / virtualhobbit / Leave a comment

20150703 - VMwareAfter my post on measuring and preventing vSphere resource over-commitment, a discussion arose at the company I work regarding HA admission control. It would appear that it has been disabled on a number of internal Continue reading →

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Cloning the ESXi boot volume

November 20, 2015November 21, 2015 / virtualhobbit / 8 Comments

20150703 - VMwareSince ESXi was introduced it has been possible to install it to a USB key. Initially it was always a hack… I remember getting a 3.5 image and using dd in a very unsupported way to write an image. It was only when ESXi 4.0 came along were USB keys officially supported as a boot volume. Continue reading →

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Check out the ESXi Embedded Host Client

November 17, 2015November 18, 2015 / virtualhobbit / 1 Comment

20151117 - 1Again… nothing new here.  If you’re a seasoned pro then you’re already aware of the excellent work the boys and girls do down at VMware Labs with regards to the Flings.  But if you’re not, due to workloads being crazy or because you’re studying like a man possessed, then this might be of interest. Continue reading →

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Measuring and preventing vSphere resource over-commitment

November 4, 2015November 5, 2015 / virtualhobbit / Leave a comment

20150703 - VMwareRecently I was asked to perform a VMware environment review for a financial services customer of ours. This involved reviewing a number of settings across the estate, one of which being resource utilisation. The biggest challenge was to ensure that none of the customer’s clusters were Continue reading →

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Using vSphere Auto Deploy to reduce configuration drift in the enterprise – Part 2

November 2, 2015 / virtualhobbit / Leave a comment

20150928 - 1In part 1 of this short series we discussed configuration drift with regards to ESXi hosts.  In this part, we complete the series by configuring answer files, host profiles, and various other settings needed to successfully Auto Deploy ESXi hosts. Continue reading →

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