A bit of housekeeping – Powershell
I have been busy with using Powershell in these past few days. I would like to share with you two of the scripts that I used lately. They were both used because of a password change that was made on a …
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This evening I started to create a Windows 2008 R2 Template for my environment. I created the VM with the assistance of this walkthrough adding my own tweaks along the way. I then tried to import the …
Upgrade vCenter pt. 2
As much as some of the Virtualization community would like - vCenter is a Windows application that means no Linux. VMware have released a CTP of an appliance that will run on Linux, but if you ask me …
Travelling Down 5th ave. - at 180 KMH
Today I got an urgent call from an administrator saying that he had one machine that “had started to crawl. It was working fine yesterday!!!” So I pulled out my VI client. First thing you look for is …
The case of the my SSL cert – RTFM!!!!!
It took me a while to understand why this was not working - it could be because I hate - actually loath -having to dig through logs because of Java and Tomcat issues, but I only have my self to blame …
My Journey to vSphere - The Beginning
My policy is not to update to new releases until they have stabilized for a decent period of time. Therefore, we have not yet performed our upgrade to Version 4.0 yet. We were waiting for the release …
"Need have have" - revisited
If you remember about 6 months ago I wrote an article about the fact that hot add of any kind of virtual hardware in the free free version of ESXi. I thought I would revisit the problems I had now …
Patching your ESXi Host – Without vCenter
VMware Update Manager is the Enterprise tool for Patching your ESX Hosts and for some also the tool used to patch your Windows / Linux Guests as well. This is all fine and dandy, but what is you do …
How to create an exe package in Windows
A colleague (thanks Natan) of mine reminded me of a simple but not very well know feature that exists in Windows. We all download software from the Internet or install applications off a CD or some …
My New Years Resolutions
According to Jewish religion, the year is based on the lunar calendar and coming up at the end of this week is Rosh Hashanah - the beginning of the new Jewish Year. No, I am not getting religious on …