VCP4 Beta Exam - Why I will not take the Exam.
I was invited (amongst a good number of others that were in the Beta) to sit the Beta Exam. I have decided not to take the opportunity. Only two days left by the way. Why you should? Beta Participants …
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I started to read the sample chapters that Scott Lowe released from his upcoming book, and one of the parts were about the subject of scaling up vs. scaling out. A slight bit more of an explanation as …
vMotion issues (78%)
In the current series of posts I am writing on running a vSphere lab on ESX 1, 2 and 3, I wanted to set up an NFS shared storage between my 2 ESX hosts to test vMotion. I ran into an interesting issue …
ESX 4.0 Running a VSphere Lab - Part 3
We continue our Saga. Part 2 ended with configuring our cluster and now we go onto shared storage and vMotion. If you looked at the previous topology of my lab you will notice that there was no …
ESX4i build 171294 - released
From a query on the VMTN forums, I found this one. It seems there has been a release (very very quiet one… sshhhh..) from the original GA code version 164009. It now seems there are two versions of …
Powershell Scripting Games - Day 8
Here is my solution for Event 8. Here we had to go through the hard drive and report which folder was using up all the space on the drive. #First we set the path $path = Read-Host "Which folder …
ESX 4.0 running a vSphere Lab - Part 2
So Part 1 was about setting up the test environment. This part will be about setting up a cluster. But before we can do anything with setting up clusters we need to set up networking. This might be a …
ESX 4.0 running a vSphere Lab - part 1
I started out on my quest for getting a vSphere environment up for testing of the new technologies. I already had a Beta environment running - but for those of you who did not realize our Beta serial …
Powershell Scripting Games - Day 7
Here is my solution for the Beginner Event 7 Here we had to create a logging solution for script # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # NAME: …
Powershell Scripting Games - Day 6
This is my solution for Beginner Event 6 Here we got a script that was not working and had to debug it. #========================================================================== # NAME: Beg_6.ps1 # …