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The 99c/Hour Computer vs. Buy Your Own Server (BYOS)

Amazon announced a few days ago the availability of EC2 for In-Memory Computing - The High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance, here are the specs: Two Intel E5-2670 processors running at 2.6 …

  • Server
  • Management
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
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DevOpsCon 2013

Today I attended the DevOpsCon 2013 in Hertzliya, Israel. As you can see from the agenda there was an abundance of great sessions and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. This was not like most of the …

  • Automation
  • Miscellaneous
  • DevOps
  • Administration
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Error Removing Nexus 1000V VEM

I encountered this last week and was not find any reference to my specific problem – so I am documenting it here. I was trying to remove the Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM from the ESXi hosts in my lab. This …

  • Network
  • Administration
  • Troubleshooting
  • 5.1
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Configuring SSH Equivalence for Oracle RAC

SSH Equivalence is one of the pre-requisites needed for an Oracle RAC installation. There are a number of posts on how to do this like here or here, and Oracle even have been so kind as to provide a …

  • Automation
  • Design
  • Management
  • Scripting
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The SSH Key Problem With Cloned Linux VM’s

First let me start off this by saying – the way this is effects you will differ entirely on your organizational procedures and security requirements. We all love templates – don’t we? I mean they are …

  • Design
  • Linux
  • Security
  • vSphere
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A Major Milestone – My First Million!!

No… Not Dollars, Shekels and not even IRR (of which 1 miliion is worth ~US$40). Today I passed 1,000,000 Pageviews on my blog. I never for the life of me expected this would happen. It started on …

  • Miscellaneous
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Copy-DatastoreItem - Understanding the Traffic Flow

I brought this up on Twitter a while ago. What network path will the transfer take when using Copy-DatastoreItem - does anyone know? — Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) January 8, 2013 I studied …

  • Management
  • Administration
  • Troubleshooting
  • PowerCLI
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Another PowerShell vExpert.me URL Shortner

Building on Jonathan Medd’s excellent idea of Using PowerShell to access the vExpert.me URL Shortener, I decided to improve it a bit more. Here is the completed script. <# .SYNOPSIS Will create a …

  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • vExpert
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Red Hat 6.4 Clustering Changes

I am pretty sure that this one escaped under the radar – because it was not well advertised. Red Hat released on December 4th, 2012 their latest Beta of RHEL 6.4 – release notes can be found here. So …

  • Storage
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
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PowerCLI Does not officially support Powershell v3

Just a heads up. According to the Release Notes PowerCLI is not supported Does this mean that it will not work – No of course not! From what I have tested it works almost flawlessly – but there are …

  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • VMware
  • PowerCLI