Virtual Server DR Strategy for Beginners: Failure Domain
Are all your egg’s in one basket? Keeping all the business critical virtual servers in the same datastore, LUN, or storage volume is a common OVERSIGHT for many IT operation …
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Tag: ESXi
Service Management Guide: ITSM for Virtualization
What’s the difference between deploying a service versus installing a software technology? A lot! For example think about what you expect from companies that provide you with water, electricity, and …
vSphere Monitoring for Health & Performance
Managing and supporting various vSphere environments over the years has given me a binocular view of what vSphere monitoring checks are best for keeping ESXi hosts healthy and VMs at …
Free ESXi License Key (For Newbies)
In this important VMware for beginners post, I’ll provide a few links to help get you to get started… First is a link where ESXi can be downloaded… (Download ESXi) …
Build A Custom Rack Server Cabinet for Your Home Lab
Do you want a server cabinet for your home lab? Here’s how to build a custom rack server cabinet on a small budget. This idea works perfectly for the DIY …
vSphere Operations Management Tasks: What to Expect
Years of managing virtualization has given me a unique perspective most IT Managers will soon develop as their vSphere Operations Management tasks grow exponentially. The perspective is – vSphere Operations Management is time-consuming and …