If you are running UCS hardware with ESXi then you should be using custom ENIC/FNIC drivers as specified on the Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix.…
OVF Tool: Special Characters in URL Locators
This might be common knowledge, but it tripped me up recently so thought I would write a quick post on it. OVF Tool allows you…
Rescan All Hangs ESXi
I ran into a interesting problem the other day. I was brought into an environment that had a pair of ESXi 5.1 hosts connected to…
Automating VCSA Configuration
If you have deployed the VCSA a couple of dozen times like me then you quickly realize that it is necessary to script the initial…
Standardizing ESXi Configurations
Maish over at Technodrone posted a great article yesterday titled: Host Profiles Should Become a Standard Feature. In the article he states: Having your hosts…
Review: VMware Horizon Mail
As I mentioned last week, VMware released an officially supported mail client (for Zimbra). About two years ago VMware released a fling called Zimbra for…
vWYNTK: BOSH Part 1 – Introduction
As many of you know, I have worked very closely with the Cloud Foundry team since the beginning. Recently, I decided to deploy a Cloud…
VMware Horizon Mail
I am guessing either people have not heard yet or perhaps they do not care, but VMware released Horizon Mail for Android users on Thursday…
Host is not responding
I was recently deploying a Cloud Foundry instance and was experiencing errors during the deployment. From the several failed deployments, I received the following BOSH…
Hung Server/VMs post ESXi 5.0 upgrade
I have a home lab running vSphere on some PowerEdge T110 servers. My environment was running 4.1, but I recently (6 months ago!) decided to…