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”. …
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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 …
Issue with vCenter Versions
I noticed something that I thought was an issue with my the vCenter installation and perhaps a change in location of the SQL database. But it turns out not to be the case. Many of us have, are in the …
Changes in PowerCLI 4.1
July 14, 2010 Kirk Munro posted last week about the PowerCLI 4.1: A fork in the road regarding changes in namespaces that were introduced in the new version of PowerCLI 4.1. Scott Herold of Vizioncore …
Where to Place your VM Swap?
This one has been bothering me lately. Where do you place your Virtual Machine Swap files? There are two options: In the Same Directory as the VM In the Datastore specified by the host. As you can see …
Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for AD-1.4
Quest just released a new version of there amazing Active Directory Module - Version 1.4 Here is Dmitry’s Post about the release: There are many new Cmdlets available here are some of the details from …
ESXi 4.1 Active Directory Integration
The previous post about what was new in vSphere 4.1 was a general overview with some slide shots. For all ye of little faith thinking that I was only going to post those screenshots with no details …
Updating VMware vSphere Hypervisor
So first post about the free Hypervisor under its new name. I wrote an article regarding the process of upgrading from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0. Well I am happy to announce that this has changed - again! …
Plug-ins and Tomcat
I have another post coming up regarding 2rd party plug-ins - explaining a few things I have learned over the past two days - regarding SSL and getting that to work with your properly in the vSphere …
Benchmarking your Disk I/O
How fast is your storage? How do you even check what kind of throughput you are getting? That is a question that comes up often enough, when performing benchmarks. I actually dealt with such a case …