IBM ESXi Customized Offline Bundle
Oh….. how I have searched for this… For hours… really. And to just come across this by chance today. Duh! Search for a customized bundle for HP hardware and it is very easy to find. Try the same …
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Subscribe via RSS →Things I Don’t Like About the vCenter Virtual Appliance
VMware are looking to move everything to a virtual appliance model. That is pretty obvious. And of course the most central component is your vCenter, I wrote a post a while back about Should You Patch …
Creating and Storing PowerShell Credentials
I actually do not understand why I have not put this in a blog post before, but it is about time - because I used it again today. Sometime you need to store a credential for a number of purposes, be …
What Happens When No Swap Volume is Available?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? A customer of mine a small number of VM’s on one host that were continuously crashing. He would power them up and within less than 5 minutes – they would …
Cause a Linux Kernel Panic or a Windows BSOD
In some testing I was doing with VM HA monitoring – and I would highly recommend Duncan’s post for some more information on the subject - I needed to crash a VM to test the functionality. So in …
NetApp Virtual Storage Console 4.0 Released
Thanks to Christopher Wells for the heads up #NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 4.0 for #VMware vCenter... Now available for download! http://t.co/JUW75aqv (NOW account required) — …
Don’t Let your Datacenter Turn into a Datayard
Last night I tweeted a poll asking this question. The choices that people left are more or less what I was expecting but I still think that this warrants a post explaining my thoughts – and also to …
Removing ^M Characters from Files in ESXi
As part of a build process for an ESXi server – on of the stages are to upload a valid SSL certificate to the ESXi server. When copying the certificate over to the host with pcsp for some reason they …
50 Free licenses of VMware Horizon App Manager
VMware is offering 50 Free Licenses of VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5 on certain purchases of VMware SKU’s. FAQ Q. What is the current offer? A. During this promotion, eligible orders will …
How to Set CDP on a vSwitch–the PowerCLI Way
We all know that you get CDP information in a number of ways (also PowerCLI), KB 1007069 provides a number of ways to do it. But how would you go about setting CDP on the vSwitch? That can be done on …