As I’m generally working with things sitting on top of the hypervisor and/or inside of VMs, I hadn’t made upgrading vSphere itself a huge priority in my lab environment. With the release of vSphere 6.7 Update 1 I decided to spend some time getting both vCenter and ESXi on the latest version. My lab environment … Continue reading vSphere Upgrade, 6.0 to 6.7
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PowerChute Network Shutdown Deployment – Attempt 1
When I first looked at automated vSphere shutdowns via UPS signaling for an APC UPS the path of least resistance seemed to be using one of the PowerChute applications on an instance of the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). With deprecation warnings aplenty for the vMA, that wasn't a path I was interested in pursuing. However, more … Continue reading PowerChute Network Shutdown Deployment – Attempt 1
Tennessee Tech ACM Student Chapter Virtualization Presentation – Part I
First, an apology I need to start this post off with an apology to those who attended the presentation I'm going to describe below, as it has taken entirely too long to get this posted to my blog. Background After several years of teaching both full-time and adjunct, I recently decided to step back from … Continue reading Tennessee Tech ACM Student Chapter Virtualization Presentation – Part I