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Now how do you like this - Built-in Backdoor

Firstly let’s start with how this came about. I was trying to allow permissions to a user to a certain VM on an ESX3i Server. This is a the free edition. There is no option to allocate …

  • Security
  • Virtualization
  • ESX3i
  • Administration
1 min read

So where is virtualization heading?

Chad Sakac works for EMC, and has blog of course. He wrote a wonderful post last week about getting the most you can out of IP storage for ESX. The post itself was great because it was a joint project …

  • Virtualization
  • Appliances
  • Administration
  • VMware
5 min read

Converting a Linux Virtual Machine With an LVM

I was entrusted with the task to try and migrate a VM from Xen 3.2 to ESX. Well you would think that is a trivial task - it should be. But let us not forget that we are talking here about version 3.2, …

  • Virtualization
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
1 min read

Why Are There two VMware VMTN Communities With the Same Name

I came across something really weird today. Vmware have lots of community forums, and while trying to make some order in the alerts I receive from the forums, I noticed that there are two communities …

  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • vCenter
1 min read

Community Technology Preview-3 (CTP3) of Windows PowerShell V2

So the folks at Microsoft have been busy, just in time for Christmas and the Holidays. Well you know that is the advantage of living in Israel (and being Jewish…) - we don’t celebrate …

  • Microsoft
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • Windows
1 min read

Time to Change the Passwords Again...

Do you all know how one of the biggest headaches you have is changing all the service accounts and administrative passwords on a regular basis? Well I did that this week. This entailed changing …

  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Scripting