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 …
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Subscribe via RSS →Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Cloud Architect?
This question is something that I have come across in a number of ways and variations over the past few months and on some occasions I have actually been asked the following: Are you a cloud …
vCloud Suite Licenses and (NO)vRAM
Yes I said the “v”- word again. That “dirty” term that was abolished at VMworld 2012 this year. (forgive the cynicism) To my surprise – it is still haunting me – and I suppose soon us all. A week ago …
vCloud Suite Upgrade – There is No Free Lunch
As you should have heard by now vCloud Suite will be available as a free – well almost free. According to the VMware vCloud Suite Upgrade Promotion you have until December 15, 2012 at 11:59pm Pacific …
Installing RVC on Ubuntu 12.04
I was trying to install the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) today on my Ubuntu machine running Precise Pangolin. I used William Lam’s post as a baseline for the installation – but since there are several …
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 …
ESXi Shell history
Someone asked me this question this week – how do I see the history of my commands in the the ESXi shell? There is no history command on an ESXi host.. So how do you go about getting the history of …
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 …
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 …
Set-UpdateToolsPolicy–For your VM’s
In continuation to William Lam’s post on how you can Automating VMware Tools Upgrade Policy and thanks to a comment left on the post – I wanted to perform the same functionality in PowerCLI. I present …