I was hunting for a new affordable whitebox all pieced together for me, IE a desktop that was inline with the HCL. I looked through Best Buy since they usually have decent deals and went to my local CompUSA store to scope things out. I ended up buying a Gateway DX4860 from Best Buy for [...]
I was lucky enough to grab a copy of the vSphere 5 suite this weekend. Upgrade went fine, but I encountered an error during the install process for vCenter 5 stating “The Fully Qualified Domain Name could not be resolved”, after doing some testing I had no issue resolving that to my IP address assigned [...]
A few days ago, I was browsing through Reddit and saw this post, where it was suggested that the person edit their database or vpxd.cfg to fix this issue via this article from years ago by Eric Sloof. There is a much simpler way of remedying this issue. vCenter takes its base permissions from the Administrators [...]
After getting my server setup in our datacenter, I had to think of a way to not use all of my 5 allocated IP addresses. pfSense came to mind as I heard of it before. This neat little piece of software can do a ton of different things, in my case, NATing and routing. pfSense [...]
Well, I finally got my server up and running at our datacenter, I wanted to then hook it up a vCenter server running at my house. All seemed well, I got DNS and firewall ports all set, then finally connected my host to vCenter. Shortly after, to my dismay, my host suddenly disconnected. I tried [...]
I always forget how to do this when I have to, which was last week. I thought I’d use my blog to keep track of this needed task. In vCenter, you are not allowed to use Microsoft SQL Server’s default master database when configuring vCenter, so you have to end up creating a new one [...]
This post is merely a first impression comparison between the XenServer and VMware ESXi. The reason I chose ESXi is it’s a free version, as is XenServer, both are quite advanced compared to other software at this price. Among other reasons I also chose it because of the console VMware is aiming towards, which XenServer [...]