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 …
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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 …
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 …