My Journey to vSphere - The Beginning
My policy is not to update to new releases until they have stabilized for a decent period of time. Therefore, we have not yet performed our upgrade to Version 4.0 yet. We were waiting for the release …
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Two weeks ago I wrote an article about How To Bring Down A Single NIC In ESX?. In that post you could see that in order to test this you had to go into the console of the ESX and run the commands on …
"Need have have" - revisited
If you remember about 6 months ago I wrote an article about the fact that hot add of any kind of virtual hardware in the free free version of ESXi. I thought I would revisit the problems I had now …
71-663 - Exchange 2010 Beta exam
71-663: Pro: Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take …
Disconnected ESX Host
Got a call today. Panic!!!! All VM on an ESX host just went grey – all disconnected. Trouble shooting steps: Ping ESX host Service Console – All ok Look in the VI client what is with the server – NOT …
Is today the day for Update 1??
No official sources, but a small bit of detective work. I hate rumors, but it has already started on Twitter. What a day! View 4 and vSphere update 1 tomorrow! — Barry Coombs (The Doodle Guy) …
The release that was (NOT!)
Ok so the detective work was not 100% correct. If it was not for unforeseen circumstances then we should have had a release today So why was there no release? The only thing I found was from Andre …
Access Console in Linux Guest
Have you ever had the issue of wanting to go into the console of a Linux Virtual Machine that is running at RUNLEVEL 5 (GUI) - because you are one of those Linux geeks who think that GUI is for the …
ONYX - Go forth and PowerCLI'ze!
I have been waiting for this ever since it was announced at VMWorld 2009. Carter Shanklin just announced tonight! Been waiting to try “Project Onyx” the PowerCLI script generator for …
Yep I passed! - My VCDX Admin Exam
On October 26th, I sat the VCDX Administration Exam. Today I received notification that I passed. Now if you were following me on Twitter then you would have seen that I was not at all happy with the …