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VMware vSphere Communication Map

2010/04/03 By Leave a Comment

Recently I got several questions from my colleagues, asking about the TCP/IP ports various VMware products uses and how they interact with other components.

A good guide is provided by VMware in their knowledge base – VMware KB 1012382 – where all the communication between the VMware components and their dependencies are described in writing.

However, written information is harder to digest comparing to a visual one. I have found a very good diagram, made by Dudley Smith, which basically represents in a visual way the information provided in the VMware knowledge base. Continue reading “VMware vSphere Communication Map” »

Filed Under: VMware Tagged With: Converter, DMZ, esx, esxi, firewall, ports, vcenter, VMware, vsphere

VMware ESX 4.0 Kick-start

2010/02/20 By 4 Comments

Congratulations to me and my first public blog post – now I can truly say that I am very much into nowadays IT things (though a little bit late, I guess…).

During the days I had a lot of things to do with VMware vSphere. My virtualization journey started due several reasons, which are not that important, but led me to do some hands-on activities on this subject. Despite that I own VMware Certified Professional certification on vSphere, I can truly say that now I have a strong practical knowledge on a quite wide area of subject of this virtualization solution.
But let’s start from simple things… I will share some ESX 4.0 kickstart script, which was done by me for a specific situation. I know that there are lots of examples, blog posts about this ESX kickstart scripts – this will be some kind of backup of the script for my own reference. But who knows, maybe it will also bring some value to someone… Continue reading “VMware ESX 4.0 Kick-start” »

Filed Under: VMware Tagged With: deployment, esx, kickstart, kickstart installation, script, unattended, VMware, vsphere

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2010/02/20 By

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Stuff

2008/12/28 By

This page is a consolidation of all my published stuff (e.g. scripts, config and etc.).

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