Today I have ordered a Second HP Microserver N40L. Additionally 8GB for my old and the new Microserver and the Remote Access Card. I will create a Cluster with both Micro’s and my ML115 G5 using EVC. This will be enough power to run all my test as preparation for the VCP 5 exam.

It is supported by VMware to run the VDR 2.0 with 4GB memory. This will reduce the swap usage a lot. Hopefully this will help to stabilize the Backup System.

Yes there is a memory leak in the current Version of VDR 2.0. After some days the VDR crash’s with the Message “Out of Memory”. Get PID of datarecovery process <br /> ps -ef | grep datarecovery<br /> Check with pmap to display information about the address space of a process <br /> pmap -x PID<br …

Now I had the time to setup an vSphere 5 vCenter on Windows (MS Sql Express DB) and 4 HP servers. Setup was quite easy of vCenter no real issue. Only the SQL Express was a not working directly, but with some Google all issues could be resolved. I have than upgraded all 4 servers from 4.1 to 5 using the iso image. 3 of …

After an short weekend with a minimal of sleep … I’m done my Homelab is up and running. Furthermore I have created an template of an nested ESXi (virtualized ESXi). These nested ESXi are perfect for testing of Powershell scripts which I use to initial configure an new ESXi. Next steps which I have planned is to migrate …

I have created some virtual machines on my HP Microserver and with 4 powered on VM’s he is running fine. The only problem is the current installed memory 🙁 I have only 4GB, but this will be changed asap. Furthermore I have ordered the HP Microserver Remote Kit … this is something like an small iLO adapter. Hopefully he …

Today I got my HP Microserver 🙂 I have directly installed ESXi 5. Next step will be the setup of some test virtual appliance. Keep you up to date …

Yesterday I have ordered the new HP Microserver N40L. This will extend my existing Homelab as second ESXi server. Hardware specs HP Microserver N40L: AMD Turion II Neo N40L (1.5GHz) 2GB Memory installed (up to 8GB possible) 1x 250GB SATA HDD installed (up to 4 SATA HDD possible) Embedded NC107i PCI Express Gigabit …

Using this small script it is possible to change the HA settings for multiple virtual machines in an HA cluster. Example: – multiple virtual machines all with Name XXX-console HA restart policy possible values: -HARestartPriority:Low -HARestartPriority:High -HARestartPriority:Disabled -HARestartPriority:Medium …

After the 3 days of vSphere 5 training. I would like to point out 3 interesting components. First of all the new vCenter appliance. This is based on SUSE linux. This is a really cool thing for the private Homelab as it is ready to use including an database and there are no Windows and MS SQL licenses necessary. Just …