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vCenter Lab Manager to be Retired - Told You So?

Jason Boche - The Future of VMware Lab Manager, Ian Koenig - Lab Manager is dead.. Long Live Lab Manager and Mike Laverick - VMware Lab Manager vs. VMware Cloud Director: Another Case of …

  • Lab
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • Licensing
2 min read

Cannot start a Virtual Machine

I was presented with an issue yesterday regarding a VM that I was not able to start I went through KB Article 10051, step by step, until I got to: I did not want to reboot the host, seriously… just …

  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • ESX
  • Troubleshooting
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Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 2

Continuing the problem from part 1. Over the past 8 months this template has been updated with Microsoft security patches (released once a month) and during that time the template OS was activated - …

  • Active Directory
  • Management
  • Windows
  • Administration
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Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 1

I have been dealing with an issue that has been bugging me for quite a while. It has to do with the deployment of Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 VM’s and License Activation. First let’s …

  • Active Directory
  • Windows
  • Administration
  • VMware
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What do you use for your VMware monitoring?

I would be interested in hearing your opinions on what you use for monitoring your VMware environment. I am conducting a study on what tools you find useful for monitoring and Capacity …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • Performance
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What is in Store for 2011 and How to Keep up?

2010 has come and gone. It has been a great year, seriously, there are so many things I can point out that continue to amaze me, that makes me wonder sometimes what is it that I do that has brought …

  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Veeam's Holiday Present

I would like to tell you a short story about the new present that Veeam has announced today. Just under 2 months ago I sent the message above to Doug Hazelman. The text speaks for itself. This is the …

  • Tools
  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • Administration
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VMware Communities Downtime this weekend

For those of you who have not already noticed. VMware will be upgrading Communities systems between 10-12 December 2010. During this time, the system will be placed in read-only mode. While we work on …

  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • Upgrade
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My Android Phone as a USB stick

A few days ago, I was presented with a situation that I had a failed ESX Server which needed to be re-installed. How and what happened is another tory for another time though. I wanted to get some …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • ESX
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Welcome to VMware Alive VM

Heh? Alive VM? I have never hear of it? Well up until today neither had I. Looking at my previous post Upgrade to Enterprise Plus promotion I clicked on the link (which was originally pointing to the …

  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • VMware