Deploy-ESXi v1.0 - My ESXi Script-0-Mania entry
As I posted a few weeks ago - I entered the ESXi Script-0-Mania Contest. Unfortunately, my entry was not chosen as one of the top entries, but hey - I don’t do this for the money - I enjoy what …
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Subscribe via RSS →SureBackup by Veeam
I was one of a few blogger that were invited to participate yesterday in a Bloggers briefing - given by Doug Hazelman - presenting Veeam’s new product Surebackup. Well this is not actually a new …
A running VM that did not exist
This was a weird one that hit me today. I had a performance issue on a server. esxtop is the first I thing I looked at and got this: ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %RDY 69 69 VSE 5 83.98 85.74 …
My ESXi Script-O-Mania entry - Deploy-ESXi
I have submitted a script for the VMware Script-O-Mania contest that will end in a little under 9 hours from now. The idea behind the script was for automating the deployment of a stand-alone ESXi …
Spring on VMware Promotion
VMware acquired Springsource not so long ago, and now they have started to offer their first promotion. Excerpt of the announcement below As IT organizations continue to virtualize increasing …
How to Throttle Removing ESX Snapshots
Recently we had a planned maintenance window that required shutting down power to the entire building. As part of the procedure we created snapshots of each VM before the powerdown. With PowerCLI this …
So How Up-to-Date is Your BCP Plan?
Here is a tale of a small little airplane and what kind of damage it can do. No I am not going back to Sep. 11 and the WTC. more of the likes of Feb 17th, 2010 - 07:50 in Palo Alto California. A …
Israel VMUG - February 2010 - Cloud vision
Last Thursday I participated in the Israeli VMUG meeting. The following are my thought and observations from what was presented at this meeting. (The product release dates mentioned below are not …
Is 100mb Enough for the Service Console?
It is accepted practice amongst most of the virtualization world that you can use a 100mb/s link for your Service Console port, because there is not much traffic that is flowing over that link. Well …
Install VMware Tools on Server Core
Just to remind you all - Server Core - NO GUI! I needed to install VMware tools today on a VM with Windows 2008 R2 Core. Start the VMware tools install. msiexec /i <path to>\VMware Tools64.msi …