All posts tagged vSphere

Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere

I’ve written this blog as an add-on to Frank Denneman’s blog about Flex-10 which you can find over here. Goal of this blog is to get a clear vision about the Flex-10 port mappings that HP uses to facilitate their blades with NIC’s, with the special focus towards VMware ESX/vSphere.

VMware Update Manager on vSphere – Check the Firewall!

Yesterday I noticed something strange while updating a VI3 environment to vSphere with Update Manager 4.0 The update of update manager went fine as well as the creation of new baselines. Whenever I remediated a Host, the Host went into maintenance mode and the remediate process hangs on 33%. This same behaviour occured when I [...]

The Quest of Encrypted VMotion

Last week I was dreaming (don’t even ask…. about the new VMotion encryption technology that VMware has implemented in vSphere. Since that moment I decided that I want to know more about this feature since there isn’t much said about it at the moment.   Let’s go back before vSphere: Ever since VMotion exists I’m [...]