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 …
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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 …
VMware AppSpeed to be Retired
This is the excerpt of a message I received yesterday.(the highlights and graphics are my own) Dear Maish, We want to provide you with an important update about the VMware® vCenter AppSpeed™ product. …
Restarting vCenter Services - with PowerShell
Has it ever happened that you need to restart a vCenter service? I guess that you have been there before. Once upon a time I wrote a post that mentioned that there are not enough tools available today …
All of Us Can Benefit From TechFieldDay
Where would you go to hear more or find out about a new product or a new company? The Web? Blogs? the company’s website? Probably all of the above are true. But sometimes that information is …
Set-VirtualSwitch and a Misunderstanding
I was doing some installations yesterday – and I wanted to add a second NIC to a vSwitch on a set of newly installed servers. Of course there were 10 of them, and I did not want to do this manually. …
Quest to Acquire VKernel – Say What?
That was an utter surprise to me. Seriously. I don’t actually know really, what to think about this though. Quest and VKernel are direct competitors. Quest acquired Vizioncore back in January 2008. It …
Welcome to Our New Sponsor – Embotics
I would like to give a shout out and a warm welcome to Embotics for joining on as a new sponsor for the blog. What does Embotics do? Embotics provides easy-to-use, virtualization management and …
Many ways to skin a cat (or write a script)
I wanted to share with you another small example of how there are many ways to do things in PowerCLI. I wrote a post a while back about How to Speed Up Your PowerCLI Queries and there I came to the …
Enabling VLAN tagging on Redhat Linux
I came across this one today, and am putting it here to document it ofr my own benefit. I needed a physical machine with one NIC to be able to have two different IP addresses on two different VLAN’s. …