I often like to work from my local Starbucks, I love the smell of coffee and the relaxed working environment it provides. Unfortunately, I can't drink coffee due to a disagreement my stomach has with it, though that's another story, and doesn't stop me liking the aroma of coffee. Whilst sipping my cup of tea, I use their Google sponsored WiFi connection, along with a secure VPN connection whilst there, though sometimes find that I am not redirected to their login page upon my laptop … [Read more...]
Fully Featured VMware vSphere Web Client (finally) On The Way
It’s been a long time in coming, though it finally looks like a fully featured version of the VMware vSphere web-based client is almost here! Over the past few years, VMware has been slowly migrating the features found in their full-blown Windows based C# coded version of the vSphere management client across to the web client. This adoption of a web based client was great news for those virtualization administrators that weren't Microsoft Windows based, as they now had a way to … [Read more...]
[Podcast] vChat Episode 45–Things Crypto-Currency and Crypto-Mining
In episode #45, David and I talk about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto-mining and what I have learnt whilst getting my own crypto-mining rig up and running. In this vChat episode we cover the following topics: What are blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and Ethereum? Why are you mining ? What does it take to mine? How do you balance the cost vs the return? Why an open rig? What kind of GPU, CPU, Memory, and disk do you have? And why? What OS and app in the OS? Show … [Read more...]
[Link] Dell EMC Interactive Demos
As part of my role at Dell EMC I create interactive style demos for use by our sales teams, partners and customers.Interactive demos take you through a particular product providing you with the ability, via a web browser, to try out key features and functions of a particular product or solution. Prior knowledge of the product isn’t required as I build in a ‘trusted advisor’ along with hotspots to show you why and where to click in the product interface. Note: the trusted advisor and hotspots are … [Read more...]
"Cannot change the host configuration" error message when adding disk storage to a VMware vSphere ESXi Host
Experiencing the "Cannot change the host configuration" and or Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "datastoreSystem-xxxx" on vCenter Server error message when trying to add disk storage to your VMware vSphere ESXi host? If so, check out my video below where I run through the easy to follow steps in resolving this issue. As with most things there can often be a multiple causes to a particular error, though in my experience I have found in the majority of … [Read more...]
Changing Hosts File – Unable to set new owner on hosts. Access is denied.
When trying to update and save your Windows hosts files you may receive the error message “Unable to set new owner on hosts. Access is denied.”. Adding in static host entries to the hosts file is something that you may do semi-regularly, if you are a developer or perhaps in some IT lab situations, so this is an annoying situation to be presented with. The following is just one possible solution that I found when coming across this problem. I knew from past experience that this is most … [Read more...]
vChat Podcast #42 – First Steps in Coding with Dan Appleman
In this episode David and I talk with Dan Appleman, who is CTO at Full Circle Insights to find out the best ways for infrastructure admins to learn more about development. Do you want to get started in coding and the cloud? Do you want to ensure you future success in your career? If so, then be sure to check out this episode. Dan talks about the tremendous opportunity in developing applications for the Salesforce cloud (Force.com) and the largest software conference in the world – … [Read more...]
vBeers VMworld Las Vegas 2016
It’s that time of the year again, and this year is no exception. With VMworld’s one year break from San Francisco and the Moscone Centre we find ourselves at the most-excellent Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. With so many vGeeks descending on Vegas at the same time it’d be wrong not to have a vBeers get-together. So if you’re Las Vegas on the Saturday (27th August 2016) and feel like getting together with some fellow vGeeks to talk tech and to socialize head on down to the Ri Ra … [Read more...]
VMware ESXi 5.0 & 5.1 – End of General Support: August 2016
How time flies! It only seems like yesterday that VMware was announcing ESXi 5, though this was back in 2011 – 5 years ago! There have been lots of great ESXi releases and updates since that time which has seen the entire vSphere portfolio mature and maintain its place as the industries leading virtualization solution. Anyway… I just wanted to give those folks out there who may still be running ESXi 5.0 and/or 5.1 hosts that general support ends on the 24th August this year (2016), so … [Read more...]