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Veeam FastSCP - Supports Win7 and Win2008R2

Last week I posted the link to the Beta release. Today Veeam announces the release of version 3.0.2 that now supports Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Release Notes New Features The following is a list …

  • Tools
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
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VMware workstation - Small Rant

Every now and again VMware releases an update for their products, among those are also VMware Workstation. I have a small issue with the whole thing. Firstly, I must say this is only regarding those …

  • Workstation
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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FastSCP 3.0.2.270 Beta

For all of you who have been waiting for a version that works on Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2 it is out. For those that do not know the current tool does not work correctly on Windows 7 or …

  • Tools
  • Management
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Optimize NFS settings for Celerra

In continuation to both Jason Boche’s and Scott Lowe’s excellent posts about the recommended Advanced Settings for ESX while using a Celerra NFS mount, and after Jase McCarty’s post …

  • vSphere
  • Powershell
  • Administration
  • VMware
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New Releases from VMware

Workstation 7.0.1 - Release Notes What’s New Workstation 7.0.1 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues. This release of VMware Workstation adds the following new support: New …

  • Workstation
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
  • vCenter
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Disabling Web Services in ESXi

Duncan posted this one this evening. So to add to his post there is a way to “hide” the web service at least front page in ESXi the configuration file that is responsible for all this is …

  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
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VMFS or NFS

We are outgrowing our current storage capabilities, and virtualization is one of main “customers” that is causing this. So we are now looking for a 2nd storage that will enable us to …

  • Management
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
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Adding ESXi as a standard Operating System

Lately I have been asked more and more to install an ESXi system on a whitebox. Why you may ask - because users (we are a R&D company) are asking to have a box with multiple operating systems with …

  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Whitebox
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Bug in SNMP traps sent from vCenter

I encountered this today. I was trying to configure the alarm for datastore usage. Relatively simple operation - there is even a built in alarm for this in vCenter So I configured the alarm to fire to …

  • Administration
  • VMware
  • Troubleshooting
  • vCenter
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vCenter PowerCLI Migration Script

As I promised in a previous post I wanted to migrate from a vCenter to whole new machine Process was: Export folders Export VM locations in Folders Export Permissions Export Custom Attributes Create …

  • Virtualization
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • Administration