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VCP5 done

Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin

Just this Tuesday I took the VCP-510 exam and passed it. VMware did a really great job in putting the exam together and I must admit, it felt a bit harder to me, than the VCP4 exam did. No more … Continue reading →

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Happy Holidays!

Posted on December 23, 2011 by admin

As 2011 is coming to an end, I would like wish all of you a merry christmas and a happy new year. I hope this blog will get filled with more posts in the next year, when I start my … Continue reading →

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Differences between ESXi 5.0 from VMware and HP

Posted on December 13, 2011 by admin

As we plan to update all of our customers vSphere infrastructures to vSphere 5, I did a little diggin into which install media we should be using. Most of the servers are from HP, so to do the update, we … Continue reading →

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Disabling DRS or HA will kill your vCloud Director

Posted on November 7, 2011 by admin

As I discovered last week, while playing with my Vblock lab, there is a potential problem in the way, vCloud Director works with Virtual Center. As vCD uses resource pools to separate the compute resources in the virtual data center, … Continue reading →

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blog rebuild

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

I had to rebuild the blog, as the order of the posts got messed up after merging in the articles from my old vmware blog. As wordpress doesn’t allow the post date to be modified without heavy work, all previous … Continue reading →

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Vblock is here

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

We just got our very first VBLOCK. A few days after a very informative trip to Cork   (EMC / VCE headquaters and production site in Ireland), we ordered our very first VBLOCK (many to follow). After we placed the order, many … Continue reading →

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Blocksize matters

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

@UPDATE After the release of vSphere 5, blocksize is no longer a threat to performance during svMotion operations. You just have to create new datastores with the VMFS5 file system and migrate the data from the old ones. /@UPDATE After … Continue reading →

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VCP, VSP and VTSP done

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

My group leader just informed me, that we were about to lose our VMware Partner status, as we needed 1 VSP and 1 VTSP in addition to our 2 VCPs (me and a colleague). It took me about 3 hours to … Continue reading →

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new domain

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

From now on, my weblog is accessible at www.vpaule.de The old paule83.de domain will be replaced within the next few months. Tweet

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in the beginning

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

Welcome to my blog. This is my new playground, mostly vmware / virtualization stuff in here. Tweet

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