Incorrect NFS Datastore mount
I was contacted the other day with an issue where someone was trying to create a cluster in a box, and they were running into an issue. When trying to power on the VM with the shared, …
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Subscribe via RSS →Get-vSphereClient Function
As was posted on the new KB article 1029925 the vSphere Client is no longer packaged with current builds of ESX and ESXi. However it is packaged with vCenter, so you can still get it from the web …
List of Free Ebooks
I came across this list of free eBooks that Microsoft has released as of late. Windows 7 troubleshooting tips Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 First Look …
Getting Average Usage from your hosts - PowerCLI
I was asked to provide a small report on what the average RAM usage was on each host over the past 30 days I forgot to mention the code was inspired by the session that Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf gave …
Stuxnet & Virtualization Targeted DOS
Stuxnet for those of you have been unaware to the what has been happening with one of the most talked about worms since Conficker is an industrial rootkit targeted at Siemens software. Now conspiracy …
Host Crash because of ESX Active Directory Authentication
I was subscribed to this thread and received an update today that I must have missed previously, with an issue much more serious than the one that the thread was originally started with. Previously, I …
Murphy's Law
Let me introduce you to a good old soul by the name of Edward Murphy. Who was Edward Murphy? In short he was responsible for the famous saying, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. …
vCloud - Enterprise as well not only Enterprise Plus
After having a Twitter conversation with Massimo Re Ferre’ - VMware vCloud Architect, (his article is a great read - you should definitely make the time to get to understand it - vCloud Director …
User Can't Cancel a task
I was asked today to cancel a task of a machine import today - because it was created by mistake. So I naturally asked the Cluster Admin, “Why do you not do it yourself?”. And he naturally …
Converter 4.3 - My First Impressions
There are a few changes to note with the new Converter version. You can now import Hyper-V Machines Directly There is a new Throttling feature (More about that in an upcoming post) You can now define …