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 …
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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. …
Connecting a USB device to an ESXi 5.0 VM
This is something we have been asking for years and it was only available up until now in VMware View. We can finally connect a USB device to a VM running on ESXi. No additional licensing …
netstat for ESXi
The title of the post is actually misleading - on purpose - because there is no netstat for ESXi. The reason that I bring this up today is because of a Twitter conversation from today regarding SSH …
VCP 5 Beta Exam - a Pass - but it aint easy
I received an email today September 7, 2011 Dear VMware Beta Candidate Congratulations! You have passed the new VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP5) certification exam. Thank you for your …
VMworld Labs - Addendum
As always the VMworld labs are always a hit. Everyone wants to try out the new technology, see the new stuff, and get a hands on feeling with the latest and greatest. To add to my HoL post from …
VMworld HoL (Hands on Labs)
As always they are brilliant!! The lines are long - at some time during the days it calms down but it is well worth the wait I took one lab yesterday HOL24 with the Horizon App Manager. It looks like …
The ESXi Quiz Show - VSP1956
This is going to be fun!! Why you may ask? because it has never been done before it is a great idea more than 400 people have already registered for this session. This was Duncan Epping’s …