When reinstalling one of my homelab vSphere cluster nodes I noticed again, that the Intel driver ixgbe is not part of the ESXi base image. This driver is needed for my Supermicro mainboard X10SDV-TP8F in order to … Read more
New year, new book – some of you might have noticed it: in the last couple of weeks, there were not much updates on my blog. The reason is that I have been working on … Read more
One of the rumors regarding VMware vSphere 6 was that a kind of slim vSphere Web Client will be part of ESXi to replace the outdated vSphere Client (legacy client). ESX offered a web-based administration utility, that has been completely … Read more
Some of you might have recognized that it has been surprisingly quiet on my blog in the last couple of weeks. The reason for this was not that I have not been keen for blogging … Read more
While booting a virtualized cluster node I stumped upon a suspicious error message recently: Module DiskEarly power on failed to lock file In the VMware forums I found a hint that locking mechanisms might account … Read more
This week VMware introduced plenty of new, long-awaited product versions during an online event. I also joined this event to see the further development that was taking place since VMworld 2014. vSphere 6 The biggest … Read more
Many software cluster solutions require shared storage between all cluster nodes. A very prominent example for this might be Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters). In enterprise environments shared cluster storage is often implemented using SAN … Read more
While bringing my self-made ESXi hosts into service I saw that only one of two network cards was detected. The reasons for this issue was that VMware ESXi offers no driver for the second network … Read more
VMware published a very useful tiny helper named vSphere Mobile Watchlist. The smartphone application is designed to be used for monitoring and controlling running virtual machines. To avoid beeing overwhelmed by a endless list of … Read more
After a recent upgrade from VMware vCenter Server 4.1 to VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 and from ESXi 4.1 to 5.5 I was molested by the following message: Uplink redundancy lost on DVPorts: “xxxx/xx …” … Read more
