Agentless protection Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
As I mentioned here in the upgrading to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1 post, one of the most anticipated features for me of Rapid Recovery was the agentless backup. Â Having to maintain…
Category: Virtualization
Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. Â With 6.0.1 being released, and touting some very worthy features, I decided it was…
ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space
If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find that you start receiving warning from SAN HQ or your…
How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. Â While there are other major areas of performance consideration in a vSphere cluster such as your storage…
Create Linked Clone using PowerCLI ESXi 6
Guys, just wanted to write up a quick post on how to spin up a linked clone in ESXi 6.0 using only PowerCLI, this may come in handy if you…
Deploy Dell Virtual Storage Manager 4.5.2 in vCenter
For those of you who don’t know or haven’t seen the Dell Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) appliance, it is a virtual appliance provided by Dell which extends the functionality of vCenter…
VMware create and restore group snapshots multiple VMs at once
If you have a lab environment or other “application stack” specific multiple VMs, there can arise the need to create and restore snapshots in unison or in a “group” fashion.…
Install Xenserver 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12
Just a quick write up on how to install XenServer 6.5 in VMware Workstation 12 via nested virtualization.  First things first, we have to setup our nested virtual machine that will house…
VMware vSphere 6 available memory resources in the parent resource pool are insufficient
Recently, I ran into an odd issue with a VM that was configured in a three node VMware vSphere 6 cluster. Â The cluster housed about 30 other VMs that were…
How to enable thinprint VMware Workstation 12
Since VMware Workstation 12 has all but eliminated the problems I was having with the VMware workstation console interfacing with my VMs, I have since moved back to using the…