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The Wind of Change

Of course the title of this post was blatantly borrowed from the Scorpions (I do love the song) For the past 5 years I have designed, implemented and supported our corporate IT infrastructure. We have …

  • bio
  • Miscellaneous
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Quick and Dirty PowerCLI to Repair a Disk Space Problem

I ran into a case of a datastore that ran out disk space (why that happened is a whole different story – don’t go there… really…) but because of a whole strange chain of event this …

  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • VMware
  • Troubleshooting
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Open-SDK–Opening the vSphere Management SDK

When writing scripts (I am a fan of PowerCLI of course) there is many a time when I need to get something out of the vSphere SDK so I can dig in and get the details that I am looking for. Of course …

  • vSphere
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • VMware
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Cause a Linux Kernel Panic or a Windows BSOD

In some testing I was doing with VM HA monitoring – and I would highly recommend Duncan’s post for some more information on the subject - I needed to crash a VM to test the functionality. So in …

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Administration
  • VMware
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NetApp Virtual Storage Console 4.0 Released

Thanks to Christopher Wells for the heads up #NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 4.0 for #VMware vCenter... Now available for download! http://t.co/JUW75aqv (NOW account required) — …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Storage
  • Administration
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Don’t Let your Datacenter Turn into a Datayard

Last night I tweeted a poll asking this question. The choices that people left are more or less what I was expecting but I still think that this warrants a post explaining my thoughts – and also to …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Management
  • Miscellaneous
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Removing ^M Characters from Files in ESXi

As part of a build process for an ESXi server – on of the stages are to upload a valid SSL certificate to the ESXi server. When copying the certificate over to the host with pcsp for some reason they …

  • ESXi
  • Scripting
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Set-UpdateToolsPolicy–For your VM’s

In continuation to William Lam’s post on how you can Automating VMware Tools Upgrade Policy and thanks to a comment left on the post – I wanted to perform the same functionality in PowerCLI. I present …

  • Management
  • Scripting
  • VMware
  • PowerCLI
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50 Free licenses of VMware Horizon App Manager

VMware is offering 50 Free Licenses of VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5 on certain purchases of VMware SKU’s. FAQ Q. What is the current offer? A. During this promotion, eligible orders will …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Top Blogs Results - Thank You All for Your Vote

Eric Siebert has posted the results from the Top Blog 2012 survey. I would like to thank you one and all for casting your vote. I am very please with the results that were published and wish to …

  • Blogger
  • Miscellaneous