If you want to play with VMware VSAN and you don't have three hosts (VSAN requirement) to play on or your lab doesn't have enough resources to run nested infrastructure of three ESXi hosts you've got one more solution - run "cluster" of one ESXi host and force VSAN provisioning. In this post I will show you how to do it quickly and efficiently using virtual...

For some scenarios you may want to run in your lab - like testing VSAN or deployment of Nutanix - there is a requirement to have SSD disk attached to virtual machine. In nested lab scenarios this kind of disk can be easily simulated. Read More

Yesterday on Flings, VMware released new version of ESXi Embedded Host Client - a VIB that adds web interface to manage single ESXi host. It allows to do most of basic operations and configuration tasks related to virtual machines, datastores, networking and also enables easy monitoring of ESXi host without any external tools. Read More