Changing Windows uppercase hostnames to lowercase

Working with Windows is not always easy. Windows has it’s quirks. One of them is that sometimes some server will show up in management consoles in Uppercase, and others in lowercase. Microsoft keeps saying that Windows will recognize both Uppercase only hostname...

HA Configuration error following VIB install.

I ran into a strange problem with my InfiniBand infrastructure. For some reason, one of my ESXi host would not enter a configured HA mode. I kept getting the “Cannot upgrade vCenter agent on host. Unknow installer error”. In my post on how to installing...

VSAN Community HCL

A few days before VMworld 2013 Barcelona, I started the VSAN.info website to documents VSAN configurations, list whitepapers, redirect people to VSAN resources, and VSAN implementations. And it’s been a bit quiet since then on the surface. Well I’ve been...

NVIDIA Cards List for VMware Horizon View 3D Acceleration

During VMworld 2013 in Barcelona, I spend some time on the NVIDIA booth trying to figure out more about which graphic cards are supported for accelerating the End User Computing solutions.Wanting to lab and test the acceleration provided by using a Dedicated graphic...

InfiniBand install & config for vSphere 5.5

A followup to my adventures of InfiniBand in the lab… and the vBrownbag Tech Talk about InfiniBand in the lab I did at VMworld 2013 in Barcelona .   In this post I will cover how to install the InfiniBand drivers and various protocols in vSphere 5.5. This...