As we all know that we can’t directly upgrade from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11. But from Oracle Solaris 11 onwards, when you perform the update ,system will automatically move to major version without any additional efforts. In the last article , we have seen that how to update Solaris 11 from oracle support repository directly […]
How to install OS patch bundle on Solaris 11 ?
This article is going to explain that how to update the Solaris 11.1 . Most of the Solaris administrators will search for Solaris 11 OS patch bundle like how we use to get for Solaris 10 but you won’t get it. In Solaris 11 , oracle removed the word called “patches” from their dictionary. Instead […]
How VMware vSphere is saving physical memory ?
There are lot of discussions is going on the blogs,social media’s about the vSphere’s VM memory management. So i had just came up with VM’s memory analysis on the last article. But i haven’t explained the memory saving techniques on that article. Here we are going to discuss about that. If you look at the […]
How to calculate the vSphere’s VM memory usage ?
To understand, VMware’s memory management required some sort of skills. Because it had bounded with many technologies like sharing the memory between virtual machines(TPS) , compressing the memory content, Eliminating the duplicate memory content etc…As a Unix/Linux/Windows admin , we can login to guest VM and check the current memory usage at the VM level. […]
How to create a new VM template on VMware vSphere ?
What is VM templates ? How it is going to help on automatic VM provisioning ? If you are scratching your head for these asked questions , just go though this article. A VM template is a master copy of the virtual machine which can be used to create a new virtual machines in a […]
Host cannot prepare – vCloud Director agent installation
This article is going to demonstrate how we can resolve VMware vCloud agent installation issue on ESXi 5.5 servers. When you add an clustered ESXi hosts to vCloud Director , you have to prepare the host before a provider vDC can use its resources. During the preparation, vCloud director tries to install vCloud agent on ESXi […]
How do you troubleshoot if VCS cluster is not starting ?
How do you start VCS cluster if its not started automatically after the server reboot? Have you ever faced such issues ? If not just see how we can fix these kind of issues on veritas cluster. I have been asking this questions on the Solaris interviews but most of them are fail to impress […]
How to Deploy and configure VMware vShield Manager ?
This article will help you to deploy and configure the vShield manager appliance on vSphere environment. We should deploy vShield Manager to provide the network services to vCloud director. Each vCenter server which you are adding to vCloud director must be associated with one vShield manager . vShield manager is the central management pane […]
How to Deploy VMware vCloud Director 5.5 ?
VMware vCloud Director is one of the key component of vCloud suite which provides an automated operation management,policy based infrastructure components,self-service portal and application provisioning . These all the features makes vCloud director (vDC) is one of the best IAAS ( infrastructure-as-a-service) solution in the market today. But VMware has released vCAC (VMware vCloud automation center) […]
VMware vSphere Interview Questions – Part 1
VMware infrastructure become very large day by day and VMware is keep on integrating new technologies to their newer vSphere releases. Its becoming quite difficult for VMware newbies to understand the technology and product completely. This article will answer many questions for VMware beginners about the VMware vSphere product offerings and features.I have not […]