DevOpsCon 2013
Today I attended the DevOpsCon 2013 in Hertzliya, Israel. As you can see from the agenda there was an abundance of great sessions and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. This was not like most of the …
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Subscribe via RSS →Error Removing Nexus 1000V VEM
I encountered this last week and was not find any reference to my specific problem – so I am documenting it here. I was trying to remove the Cisco Nexus 1000V VEM from the ESXi hosts in my lab. This …
The SSH Key Problem With Cloned Linux VM’s
First let me start off this by saying – the way this is effects you will differ entirely on your organizational procedures and security requirements. We all love templates – don’t we? I mean they are …
Copy-DatastoreItem - Understanding the Traffic Flow
I brought this up on Twitter a while ago. What network path will the transfer take when using Copy-DatastoreItem - does anyone know? — Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) January 8, 2013 I studied …
Red Hat 6.4 Clustering Changes
I am pretty sure that this one escaped under the radar – because it was not well advertised. Red Hat released on December 4th, 2012 their latest Beta of RHEL 6.4 – release notes can be found here. So …
Guest Customization on Ubuntu 12.04 Fails
I came across an issue today – trying to deploy a Ubuntu Precise VM from a template and applying a customization setting to the VM – with default DHCP configuration. These are the errors I was getting …
Going over the vSphere 5.1.0a Release Notes
Less than a month – that is all it took for VMware to release an update to vSphere 5.1.0. A good thing? A bad thing – that I will leave for another post – in this one I will go over the release notes …
Read the vSphere 5.1 Release Notes!!
The first thing I always do when a new version is released is go over the Release notes. There are always interesting things that come out of a document like this. vSphere 5.1 is no different. Here …
Release Cycles and Why We Are Chasing Our Tails?
One of the things I continuously heard from a decent number of people during VMworld is that they are constantly running after the technology. I actually put out a question on Twitter with the …
Aligning the Business Goals With Your Own
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague of mine last week. We were talking about goals and targets. Let me first start with a question. Do you know what your company’s goals are for …