by Dane Young, MBA | Oct 31, 2012 | Citrix, VMware
If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below. For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into five parts: Part 1: Installing the Delivery Controller(s) Components and Creating the...
by Dane Young, MBA | Sep 30, 2012 | VMware
UPDATE: HP has fixed this issue with their branded installation media. Use the following link to download directly from HP: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/esxi-image.html For general information on performing this process in case drivers...
by Dane Young, MBA | Nov 25, 2011 | VMware
If you haven’t heard or read some of the new capabilities in vSphere 5 around rapid provisioning hosts, allow me to introduce you to Auto Deploy (previously Fling). Auto Deploy is a PXE boot process that loads ESXi into memory thereby eliminating any need for...
by Dane Young, MBA | Oct 8, 2011 | Citrix, Microsoft, VMware
As a field consultant for the last several years, I have been amazed at the numerous deployment scenarios that can be reproduced utilizing just one piece of physical hardware. Due to increasingly expensive electrical bills I trimmed down my server class lab hardware...
by Dane Young, MBA | Mar 18, 2011 | VMware
VMware vSphere 4.x was released for general availability nearly two years ago and now vSphere 5.x is rumored for release later this year. In June 2009, virtualization master Scott Lowe wrote a blog post illustrating the roughly 16 manual steps to upgrade virtual...
