I thought I’d post up a full listing of the esxcli command from vSphere 5.  It’s as much for my own future reference, but as 5.0 still isn’t GA I thought there are probably other folk who’d like to take a look through all the options. Although the esxcli command was around before vSphere 5.0, […]

vCenter deployments are likely to change for large companies as they upgrade to vSphere 5.  Traditionally vCenter has been installed in one of two designs.  The primary decision was whether to split off the database onto a second server.  Smaller shops simply installed vCenter and MS SQL (or even MS SQL Express for the very small) on […]

Great news.  Scott Lowe (@scott_lowe) is getting ready to release a new version of his highly successful Mastering vSphere book. The previous version – Mastering VMware vSphere 4 – is probably the single most popular vSphere 4 book published, and for good reason.   It was the base material used by both new users and established […]

In vSphere there are 4 different inventory views, along with a search option: Hosts and Clusters VMs and Templates Datastores Networking (BTW, why is this not “Networks”?) The primary view, the one we’ve all come to know and love, is that of the Hosts and Clusters.  Let’s face it, it’s where we all spend 90% […]