Virtualization: Blue Gears

Get deep and hands-on with virtualization and cloud technologies.

by Edward Haletky

Edward L. Haletky is an Analyst for The Virtualization Practice and owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, and network consulting and development . Edward graduated from Purdue University in 1988 with a degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. Since then, he has worked with programming graphics and other lower-level libraries on various UNIX platforms. Edward is VMware vExpert, a Guru and moderator for the VMware Discussion Forums providing answers to security and configuration questions. He is the author of multiple books on Virtualization published by Prentice Hall.

vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading the storage on your Iomega ix2-200

Posted Dec 26, 2012 - 08:03 am

1TB is just not enough for everything I have.
Blue Gears, Linux
RHEV upgrade saga: RHEL KVM and the Open vSwitch

Posted Jan 14, 2013 - 09:01 am

A customer recently switched from VMware Server to KVM, but we wanted better networking, which required us to install and operate the Open vSwitch.
KVM, Linux
Understanding VMware EVC

Posted Oct 17, 2008 - 11:03 am

Many people are confused about VMware EVC and how to configure this on their systems. When most people go to configure EVC they attempt to turn it on and get this hardware does not support EVC. Which is untrue for 98% of the attempts. There is more to enabling EVC than many realize.
EVC VMware Virtualization VMotion
vSphere upgrade saga: Veeam upgrade

Posted Jan 07, 2013 - 08:46 am

Upgrading to the latest Veeam Backup and Replication v6.5 went smoothly. However, I got errors on all but one of my backup jobs. A simple patch fixed that.
Backup & Recovery, Veeam
vSphere upgrade saga: vCloud Director 5.1

Posted Dec 12, 2012 - 08:28 am

[chunklet]
I command you. Read the fine manual.
vcd, VMware vCloud Director 5.1
vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading HPSIM

Posted Dec 05, 2012 - 12:04 pm

The first part of any hypervisor upgrade is to ensure that your existing hardware is supported. Part of that determination is what firmware levels are supported for your compute devices as well as necessary firmware for networking, fibre, blade chassis, etc. For vSphere and HP equipment there are two locations you should look:
VMware, vSphere
3 Days at VMworld

Posted Sep 18, 2008 - 01:51 pm

3 Days of VMworld has left me exhausted and stuffed with new ideas, concepts, and tools!
VMware VMworld
RHEV upgrade saga: Creating VMs on Open vSwitch

Posted Jan 17, 2013 - 12:44 pm

Previously we create our network by integrating Open vSwitch into RHEL KVM. Now we need to create some virtual machines to run the workloads required.
Open vSwitch, RHEL
Email upgrade: Replacing Axigen mail with MailScanner

Posted Jan 03, 2013 - 05:46 pm

I'm tired of moving spam mail to spam folders from which the system never learns. So it's time for me to try a new approach.
email upgrade, mail server
vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading to vCNS 5.1

Posted Dec 10, 2012 - 03:23 pm

[chunklet]
An upgrade of mythic proportions?
vCNS, vShield

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