Network Teaming with Cisco Etherchannel
This tutorial will show you how to correctly setup NIC teaming with a Cisco Catalyst Switch using Etherchannel. 1. As you can see in our example we have an ESX server that has 2 x […]
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How to remove unwanted plug-ins from VMware vCenter
I ran into this problem the other day where I couldn’t remove a specific plug-in from vCenter after migrating from a server running 32-bit vCenter 4.0 to 64-bit vCenter running 4.1. The datamigration backup brought […]
Remove Unwanted Plug-ins from vCenter
I ran into this problem the other day where I couldn’t remove a specific Netapp plug-in from vCenter after migrating from a server running 32-bit vCenter 4.0 to 64-bit vCenter running 4.1. The datamigration backup […]
Creating VMware Virtual Machine Templates
Virtual Machine Templates come in very handy when you want to have a repository of Virtual Machine base or images or SOE’s that you can easily create a virtual machine from. This saves you the […]
Setup vCenter Data Recovery
[ad name=”Godaddy Domains Banner”] [tweetmeme] Note: Make sure your appliance is powered on. The default IP address is obtained via DHCP. 1. Login to vCenter and open up a console session for your VMware Data […]
Installing vCenter Data Recovery
[ad name=”Godaddy Domains Banner”] [tweetmeme] Note: I’m using Disk 3 in the vSphere 4 suite of DVD’s. There are two parts to this installation, the vCenter plug-in & the actual Data Recovery vritual machine (OVF […]
Adding ESX hosts to vCenter 4.x
Note: This tutorial involves adding an ESX4 host to vCenter. It’s performed on a fresh install of vCenter. 1. Login to your vCenter server. Once logged in you’ll be presented with the screen below. 2.Right […]
Clustering ESX Hosts
Note: This tutorial involves setting up Clustering for two ESX hosts. One host is ESX4 and the other is ESXi4. 1. Login to your vCenter server. As you can see i’ve already connected to two […]
Creating Virtual Machines in vCenter 4.x
Note: We will be creating a Windows 7 virtual machine in this tutorial. You can follow the same steps whether you are creating a workstation of server i.e. Windows 2003, 2008, Linux, Unix, etc 1.Right […]
vCenter 4 Update 2
Note: This is an inplace upgrade of a previoulsy installed vCenter 4 instance which had already been upgraded to Update1. Update 2 can also be installed as a fresh instance. Don’t forget to upgrade your […]