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 …
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Subscribe via RSS →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 …
vESXi with 10Gb Ethernet Using VMXNET3 - Yes You Can!!
I have asked for this…. Begged for …… Ok not begged, but I did ask nicely.. a number of times, a great number of times!!!! One of the slight drawbacks of working in vESXi is that you could not …
Read the vSphere 5.1 Release Notes!!
The first thing I always do when a new version is released is go over the Release notes. There are always interesting things that come out of a document like this. vSphere 5.1 is no different. Here …
A Powershell Script to notify you on the vSphere 5.1 Release
vSphere 5.1 will most probably be released by the end of September 10th (that is 2 minutes from now in my timezone). Of course nothing is 100% certain but I will explain on what this assumption is …
Solutions Exchange - Did You Miss the Last Day?
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum Solutions Exchange floor (forgive me for the corny humor…) In previous years the Solutions Exchange floor usually opened with a the Hall Crawl which was …