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 …
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Subscribe via RSS →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 …
What is VMware KB Number 1?
Have you ever wondered what VMware Knowledge base article Number one is? Where it all started? Genesis is the beginning of the bible… KB number 1 was the beginning of a plethora of knowledge that has …
Going over the vSphere 5.1.0a Release Notes
Less than a month – that is all it took for VMware to release an update to vSphere 5.1.0. A good thing? A bad thing – that I will leave for another post – in this one I will go over the release notes …
vCloud Suite Upgrade – There is No Free Lunch
As you should have heard by now vCloud Suite will be available as a free – well almost free. According to the VMware vCloud Suite Upgrade Promotion you have until December 15, 2012 at 11:59pm Pacific …
Installing RVC on Ubuntu 12.04
I was trying to install the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) today on my Ubuntu machine running Precise Pangolin. I used William Lam’s post as a baseline for the installation – but since there are several …
TempPlanetV12N - My Daily Virtualization News Replacement
For those of you who follow the PlanetV12N aggregation feed of anything and everything that is virtualization – you might have noticed that the feed has been stale for over 10 days. The reason being.. …
Using Powershell to install PowerCLI
I am currently preparing a deployment package architecture for a full vSphere environment and one of the requests was to include PowerCLI in the installation script. I was surprised that I could not …
You Can’t Use Onyx with the Web Client
The Web Client will be VMware’s direction going forward. It was stressed more than once. There was even a slide from one the sessions to state that 5.1 will be the last windows based client – as I …
vSphere Web Client vs. vSphere Client - Sessions
There are a great number of differences between the two, and it is obvious that the vSphere Web client is where the future lies – VMware made it clear at VMworld that 5.1 will be the last release of …