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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
VCAP5-DCD - Mission Accomplished
As you can deduct from the title of this post – yes I passed. I scored a 345 today (passing mark was 300). I wanted to share with you my feelings and thoughts about the exam that I sat today. Not all …
Guest Customization on Ubuntu 12.04 Fails
I came across an issue today – trying to deploy a Ubuntu Precise VM from a template and applying a customization setting to the VM – with default DHCP configuration. These are the errors I was getting …