Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi
In our previous post on how to update Avago SMIS provider in VMware ESXi, we discussed how to upgrade your Avago/LSI SMIS provider that allows you to interact with your…
Month: June 2017
What is VMware vRNI and How to Install
With the recent announcement from VMUG that the NSX offering includes VMware vRNI, you may be asking yourself if you are a VMUG subscriber – What is VMware vRNI? VMware…
Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi
If you are running an Avago/LSI RAID controller card in a VMware host, Avago has an SMIS provider that can be installed on the host that allows you to connect…
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Beta Announced New Features
Yet again exciting news from Nakivo today as they made an announcement concerning the Beta release of Nakivo Backup & Replication 7.2. It looks to include many new and highly…
New Surface Pro 2017 Review
So for a while now, I have been looking at replacing an aging road warrior laptop that has been showing its age recently. Â I have been flirting with the idea…
Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore
Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at…
Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5
With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs…
Create Veeam Isolated Sandbox Virtual Lab
I have written several posts on how to created an Isolated lab environment using the same IP addresses or overlapping subnets. This requires some network trickery to pull off to…
Audit VMware vSphere changes with Netwrix Auditor
Auditing is one of those challenging areas in IT that has always been a sore thumb subject to most administrators. Auditing has traditionally not been an easy thing to do.…
Veeam Windows Agent not showing backup repository
Just a quick post on a little issue I saw with configuring a new Veeam Windows Agent 2.0 workstation pointing to a Veeam Repository. Â When configuring the backup, the repository…