Last week I needed a new virtual Microsoft cluster to install SQL on top of it. Something I already did quite a few times, but on that day I received the error “Incompatible device backing specified for device ‘0’”, when I tried to add the cluster disks to the second node. I was blown away, … More Incompatible device backing specified for device ‘0′
Today, in part 4 we will create our ESX’es. 1. Go to the tab VMs. You need to click on the “+ sign” if you don’t see a list of available VMs to add. 2. Click on the “+ sign” next to the “Empty ESX”. 3. In the general tab we update the Name & … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part4) – Deploy ESX’es
In this 3rd episode we will configure our shared storage for our home lab.We will take care of that with a FreeNAS VM which is available in the Ravello repo => linkSearch for FreeNAS and click on “Add to Library”. 1. Create the FreeNAS VM 1. We go to the tab VMs. You need to … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part3) – Deploy FreeNAS
In this second part of my blog we’ll configure our networking and build our first windows server that will function as our DC / DNS / NTP / …. 1. Create an application 1. In your Ravello dashboard you go to Applications and click on “Create application” 2. You give your application a name and … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part2) – Deploy DC
Finally, I decided to get a home lab to prepare for my VMware certifications and to play around with upgrades and features. But then I realized it’s just the start of my journey. So many questions that suddenly pop-up. What do I get? How big is my budget? Do I want to pick and choose … More How to build my ESXi Home lab (part1)
A while ago I promised an article about the deployment of Lenovo Xclarity Integrator. The added value of deploying this Integrator is to do rolling firmware upgrades on your Lenovo hardware. This allows you to upgrade a complete cluster without the need to constantly check the deployment in the Xclarity Administrator. It will automatically take … More Implementing Lenovo Xclarity Integrator
Every day you learn something new is a good day in my opinion 🙂 Well today I learned how I had to copy files from my vCenter appliance. For my support request with Lenovo on the Xclarity Integrator integration (on which I promised an article as well, don’t worry I didn’t forgot 😀 ) I … More Copying files from your vCenter appliance
It’s been a while since I’ve posted my first blog. However, for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been busy stabilizing my ESXi environment. I want to share with you my journey, in the hope that you can also benefit from the problems I encountered knowledge I gained 😀 The journey The issues started with … More Stabilizing ESXi on Lenovo X3850
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