How to Throttle Removing ESX Snapshots
Recently we had a planned maintenance window that required shutting down power to the entire building. As part of the procedure we created snapshots of each VM before the powerdown. With PowerCLI this …
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Subscribe via RSS →vCenter on Windows 2008 R2 - not the best idea
Ladies and Gentlemen!!! Because I have seen two such posts in almost as many days here and here - dealing with installation of vCenter Server on Windows 2008 R2 (which of course is 64-bit only) I feel …
So How Up-to-Date is Your BCP Plan?
Here is a tale of a small little airplane and what kind of damage it can do. No I am not going back to Sep. 11 and the WTC. more of the likes of Feb 17th, 2010 - 07:50 in Palo Alto California. A …
Israel VMUG - February 2010 - Cloud vision
Last Thursday I participated in the Israeli VMUG meeting. The following are my thought and observations from what was presented at this meeting. (The product release dates mentioned below are not …
ESX 4.0 Active Directory Authentication
There are numerous posts about how to use Active Directory to authenticate your ssh logins to your ESX servers. Jason Boche,Travis Laird, Geert Baeke The idea is pretty simple Configure the ESX server …
Is 100mb Enough for the Service Console?
It is accepted practice amongst most of the virtualization world that you can use a 100mb/s link for your Service Console port, because there is not much traffic that is flowing over that link. Well …
Install VMware Tools on Server Core
Just to remind you all - Server Core - NO GUI! I needed to install VMware tools today on a VM with Windows 2008 R2 Core. Start the VMware tools install. msiexec /i <path to>\VMware Tools64.msi …
New Hyper-V Security Vulnerability
Many eons ago there was talk about patch footprints - comparing ESXi to Hyper-V, footprints and security patches. So today I came across this one. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-010 - Important …
Veeam FastSCP - Supports Win7 and Win2008R2
Last week I posted the link to the Beta release. Today Veeam announces the release of version 3.0.2 that now supports Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Release Notes New Features The following is a list …
VMware workstation - Small Rant
Every now and again VMware releases an update for their products, among those are also VMware Workstation. I have a small issue with the whole thing. Firstly, I must say this is only regarding those …