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VMware Communities Downtime this weekend

For those of you who have not already noticed. VMware will be upgrading Communities systems between 10-12 December 2010. During this time, the system will be placed in read-only mode. While we work on …

  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • Upgrade
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Welcome To A New Sponsor

I would like to thank Veeam for becoming a sponsor of Technodrone Welcome aboard!!

  • Miscellaneous
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My Android Phone as a USB stick

A few days ago, I was presented with a situation that I had a failed ESX Server which needed to be re-installed. How and what happened is another tory for another time though. I wanted to get some …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • ESX
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Welcome to VMware Alive VM

Heh? Alive VM? I have never hear of it? Well up until today neither had I. Looking at my previous post Upgrade to Enterprise Plus promotion I clicked on the link (which was originally pointing to the …

  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • VMware
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I Got my Ugly Mug on the VMware site

Pablo Roesch approached me a while back to ask if he could add me to the Hero Spotlight on the VMware Developer Community. I was contacted today by a colleague in Israel who said he saw my face up on …

  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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Upgrade to Enterprise Plus promotion - ends soon

Act Now to Get More Value from vSphere That is the title of the promotion valid for less than one month from today. For a limited time, you can get VMware vCenter CapacityIQ and/or VMware View for …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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New Patch released - VMSA-2010-0016

This was just released. KB 1027027 (ESX) and KB 1027753 (ESXi) I wanted to point out that is should deal with several issues that include a patch to solve this Host crash because of ESX Active …

  • Security
  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
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Incorrect NFS Datastore mount

I was contacted the other day with an issue where someone was trying to create a cluster in a box, and they were running into an issue. When trying to power on the VM with the shared, …

  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • ESX
  • Troubleshooting
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Get-vSphereClient Function

As was posted on the new KB article 1029925 the vSphere Client is no longer packaged with current builds of ESX and ESXi. However it is packaged with vCenter, so you can still get it from the web …

  • vSphere
  • Powershell
  • 4.1
  • Administration
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List of Free Ebooks

I came across this list of free eBooks that Microsoft has released as of late. Windows 7 troubleshooting tips Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Microsoft
  • Tools
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration