Upgrade vCenter to 4.1 U1
I upgraded my lab to vSphere 4.1 U1 on Friday. vCenter was simple. A quick set of screen shots And I was done.
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Subscribe via RSS →PowerCLI 4.1.1 poster - Updated
Pablo Roesch posted on the VMware Communities the latest version of the PowerCLI poster. Thanks to all that made this happen.
Snapshots are not backups
Well, frankly, I don’t care. If I told him once, I told him a thousand times, “Don’t go, Julie!” I said, “It’s the Ides of March; beware already. Don’t go, …
vSphere 4.1 Update 1 released
Thanks to a tweet from vConsult I learned that a new vCenter and vSphere update was released. As always test before deployment!! What’s New The following information describes some of the …
VMware vSphere design - the book
This is a joint post of three prominent writers in the virtualization community: Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe and Maish Saidel-Keesing. For the past 6 months we have been working on a joint project. It …
Do You Really Need the vMA?
This post was triggered by a very informative conversation I had with William Lam this week. Thanks William! vMA - vSphere Management Assistant, is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 2
Continuing the problem from part 1. Over the past 8 months this template has been updated with Microsoft security patches (released once a month) and during that time the template OS was activated - …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 3
I would close up what we have learned from part 1 and part 2. During my work with the VMware Support on this case, one of the questions I asked, was is it possible to to inject a parameter into the …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 1
I have been dealing with an issue that has been bugging me for quite a while. It has to do with the deployment of Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 VM’s and License Activation. First let’s …
ESXi has a 32mb Memory footprint
I was listening to an very interesting presentation this evening from Olivier Cremel, Principal Engineer ESXi Internals: Better Understanding for Better Management and Troubleshooting The ESXi …