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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 …

  • TechFieldDay
  • Miscellaneous
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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. …

  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • VMware
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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 …

  • Management
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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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 …

  • Miscellaneous
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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 …

  • vSphere
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • VMware
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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. …

  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
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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 …

  • Management
  • vSphere
  • ESXi
  • vSphere Hypervisor
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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 …

  • ESXi
  • Scripting
  • esxcli
  • Administration
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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 …

  • Beta
  • VCP
  • VMware
  • Certification
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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 …

  • Lab
  • VMworld
  • VMware