How to Set CDP on a vSwitch–the PowerCLI Way
We all know that you get CDP information in a number of ways (also PowerCLI), KB 1007069 provides a number of ways to do it. But how would you go about setting CDP on the vSwitch? That can be done on …
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Subscribe via RSS →Windows 8 Developer Preview on ESXi5
Thank you William Lam @lamw!!!!!!! Due to William’s How to Run Windows 8 on vSphere 5 (for reals) post I can now try out Windows 8 Developer Preview on my ESX boxes. This was resolved in patch …
My Wish for dvFabric – a dvSwitch for Storage
This one has been sitting with me for a while. It would be nice to hear your comments on this. The dvSwitch (Distributed Virtual Switch) – oh how it has changed our lives… Do you all remember the days …
‘Tis the Season to be Voting ...
It seems like only yesterday when the last survey was conducted, and I was actually not going to write this post – because I hate “me too” posts. So let us try and do this slightly differently. On my …
InventorySnapshot Fling Updated
Personally I think this is one of the most useful Fling’s I have come across. For those of you who do not know what a fling is… A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a …
System Center 2012 Resources – Say How Much?
Of course this is not a GA product (yet). Hyper-V 3.0 is not GA (yet). So this is all theoretical and in the future. Microsoft is about to starting to push their Private Cloud offering. The first …
VMjuggler–the PowerCLI version
I was tasked with testing the throughput of the vMotion network between two hosts - to see how much of the throughput was / could be used. Now I remembered that there was an application that someone …
Internet Access is needed to Install vCLI 5.0
I came a cross a case this week that I thought would be worthwhile sharing. A client needed to install the vCLI on a Linux machine, and this machine was behind a firewall that was blocking access to …
Mercedes Benz and BYOD
I spent a week in meetings with our global IT group in the UK last month. It is always good to see the people face to face that you interact with on a regular basis and build those personal …
vKernel vOPS 4.5 Launched
vKernel announced the release of version 4.5 of their vOperations Suite today. What’s New: New Automation Features - vOPS’ automation capabilities are enhanced with auto-deletion of abandoned VM …