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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
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Invoke-VMScript Failed - and how I was Baffled.

Luc Dekens wrote a great post a while back Will Invoke-VMScript work? about the prerequisites needed in order to get Invoke-VMscript to work. Stop for a minute and go and read his post. Glad to have …

  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • VMware
  • Troubleshooting
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Creating an EagerZeroedThick disk with PowerCLI

Hey… - that is not possible – I hear you say – well in principle you are right. Up until today… By mistake of course – I found that there was a change made to the 5.1 release of PowerCLI – but …

  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • VMware
  • 5.1
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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Cloud Architect?

This question is something that I have come across in a number of ways and variations over the past few months and on some occasions I have actually been asked the following: Are you a cloud …

  • Design
  • Management
  • Architecture
  • Cloud
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vCloud Suite Licenses and (NO)vRAM

Yes I said the “v”- word again. That “dirty” term that was abolished at VMworld 2012 this year. (forgive the cynicism) To my surprise – it is still haunting me – and I suppose soon us all. A week ago …

  • vCloud
  • Management
  • ESXi
  • Miscellaneous