Windows 8 Developer Preview on ESXi5
Thank you William Lam @lamw!!!!!!! Due to William’s How to Run Windows 8 on vSphere 5 (for reals) post I can now try out Windows 8 Developer Preview on my ESX boxes. This was resolved in patch …
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Subscribe via RSS →InventorySnapshot Fling Updated
Personally I think this is one of the most useful Fling’s I have come across. For those of you who do not know what a fling is… A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a …
System Center 2012 Resources – Say How Much?
Of course this is not a GA product (yet). Hyper-V 3.0 is not GA (yet). So this is all theoretical and in the future. Microsoft is about to starting to push their Private Cloud offering. The first …
VMjuggler–the PowerCLI version
I was tasked with testing the throughput of the vMotion network between two hosts - to see how much of the throughput was / could be used. Now I remembered that there was an application that someone …
Internet Access is needed to Install vCLI 5.0
I came a cross a case this week that I thought would be worthwhile sharing. A client needed to install the vCLI on a Linux machine, and this machine was behind a firewall that was blocking access to …
Mercedes Benz and BYOD
I spent a week in meetings with our global IT group in the UK last month. It is always good to see the people face to face that you interact with on a regular basis and build those personal …
Restarting vCenter Services - with PowerShell
Has it ever happened that you need to restart a vCenter service? I guess that you have been there before. Once upon a time I wrote a post that mentioned that there are not enough tools available today …
Set-VirtualSwitch and a Misunderstanding
I was doing some installations yesterday – and I wanted to add a second NIC to a vSwitch on a set of newly installed servers. Of course there were 10 of them, and I did not want to do this manually. …
Enabling VLAN tagging on Redhat Linux
I came across this one today, and am putting it here to document it ofr my own benefit. I needed a physical machine with one NIC to be able to have two different IP addresses on two different VLAN’s. …
netstat for ESXi
The title of the post is actually misleading - on purpose - because there is no netstat for ESXi. The reason that I bring this up today is because of a Twitter conversation from today regarding SSH …