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 …
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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 …
vKernel vOPS 4.5 Launched
vKernel announced the release of version 4.5 of their vOperations Suite today. What’s New: New Automation Features - vOPS’ automation capabilities are enhanced with auto-deletion of abandoned VM …
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. …
Quest to Acquire VKernel – Say What?
That was an utter surprise to me. Seriously. I don’t actually know really, what to think about this though. Quest and VKernel are direct competitors. Quest acquired Vizioncore back in January 2008. It …
Connecting a USB device to an ESXi 5.0 VM
This is something we have been asking for years and it was only available up until now in VMware View. We can finally connect a USB device to a VM running on ESXi. No additional licensing …
Orchestration Will Rule Them All BRC2K11
On Wednesday night I participated on session 2 of the Blogger Reality Contest. From the rankings that were published on Wednesday - I am actually not doing so well (so your continued and strengthened …
NetApp DFM Console on Ubuntu
I finally got to play around with the NetApp Operations Manager last week. The two options for the management I had, was to install on a package on a Windows/Linux machine that I use or to use the web …
Strange vCenter Permissions Issue
Today I came across a strange issue with permissions and the lack of ability to change permissions on a VM. Someone had by mistake given the explicit Role VirtualMachineUser to the Built-in Group …