A customer recently switched from VMware Server to KVM, but we wanted better networking, which required us to install and operate the Open vSwitch.
vSphere upgrade saga: HP Insight Management integration
I have previously written about upgrading HPSIM and installing HP specific offline bundles within my vSphere environment. This was to increase the integration between vCenter, vCloud Director, and my physical hardware. Still, everything was not integrated well enough. Here’s what I did to make this work.
vSphere upgrade saga: Adding a D2200SB w/P4000 VSA
In order to increase the size of my virtual environment, I need to increase the size of my primary storage. The choices were to increase the capacity of disks for slower disks, add another disk tray to my SAN, or to use a virtual storage appliance (VSA) within vSphere. I chose to go the route of a VSA. Here’s how I did it:
vSphere upgrade saga: Veeam upgrade
Upgrading to the latest Veeam Backup and Replication v6.5 went smoothly. However, I got errors on all but one of my backup jobs. A simple patch fixed that.
Email Upgrade Saga: Replacing Axigen mail with MailScanner
I’m tired of moving spam mail to spam folders from which the system never learns. So it’s time for me to try a new approach.
vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading the storage on your Iomega ix2-200
While technically not part of my vCloud environment, I use an Iomega ix2-200 as my tertiary storage for ISOs used within my vCloud environment. I also use an 8TB iSCSI server that also acts as my RHEV server. I will be upgrading this later as well with a 10G network card and the latest RHEV. However, this is about my Iomega ix2-200.
1TB is just not enough storage.