Wow! I am honored!!
Eric Siebert just released the results for the Top Virtualization Bloggers poll that was running over the last 2 weeks. I am flabbergasted to say that was included in the top 25 (24) !!!!!! I highly …
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Subscribe via RSS →A bit of housekeeping – Powershell
I have been busy with using Powershell in these past few days. I would like to share with you two of the scripts that I used lately. They were both used because of a password change that was made on a …
VCP4 SWAG
Stuff We All Get (for those of you who were wondering) - I only found this out not so long ago - in Yiddish it is called tchachkes. I got a letter in the mail today with my VCP4 Certificate. I am very …
Always look at your OS versions.
This evening I started to create a Windows 2008 R2 Template for my environment. I created the VM with the assistance of this walkthrough adding my own tweaks along the way. I then tried to import the …
Bad VM! Bad VM!!
I had an issue today with a slowly responding ESX 3.5 Host. When going into the Host – it was visible that pCPU0 was running constantly at 90-100%. In esxtop I saw that the console process was running …
Upgrade vCenter pt. 2
As much as some of the Virtualization community would like - vCenter is a Windows application that means no Linux. VMware have released a CTP of an appliance that will run on Linux, but if you ask me …
Upgrade vCenter pt. 1
To continue my experiences and planning for the upgrade to vSphere, here is the next stage. To Upgrade / Re-install - that is the question (and it is a very good one if I may say so). Here are some of …
Adding ESX 3.5 Servers to vCenter 4.0
I came across this today while performing and migration from vCenter 2.5 to vCenter 4.0 When adding an ESX 3.5 Server you will need to provide a license for the host. vCenter 2.5 uses a separate …
I hate self promotion but sometimes…
I really do not like pushing myself my readers and self plugging is not my style but since I have been included in the list of the VMware top bloggers poll, I feel honored to be on the list of 63 …
Travelling Down 5th ave. - at 180 KMH
Today I got an urgent call from an administrator saying that he had one machine that “had started to crawl. It was working fine yesterday!!!” So I pulled out my VI client. First thing you look for is …