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Now how do you like this - Built-in Backdoor

Firstly let’s start with how this came about. I was trying to allow permissions to a user to a certain VM on an ESX3i Server. This is a the free edition. There is no option to allocate …

  • Security
  • Virtualization
  • ESX3i
  • Administration
1 min read

So how do you like your feeds?

There are those who like to get updates immediately when something changes in a feed, there are those who like to get notified once a day (something like a daily digest idea from Yahoogroups) Well I …

  • Virtualization
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
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So when will we see the get the next version of ESX?

Rumors rumors……. This came up on SearchVMware (Hannah Drake - Associate Editor of SearchVMware.com) **The release of VMware Infrastructure 4 is slated for first half of this year. What …

  • Virtualization
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
  • ESX
1 min read

So where is virtualization heading?

Chad Sakac works for EMC, and has blog of course. He wrote a wonderful post last week about getting the most you can out of IP storage for ESX. The post itself was great because it was a joint project …

  • Virtualization
  • Appliances
  • Administration
  • VMware
5 min read

Converting a Linux Virtual Machine With an LVM

I was entrusted with the task to try and migrate a VM from Xen 3.2 to ESX. Well you would think that is a trivial task - it should be. But let us not forget that we are talking here about version 3.2, …

  • Virtualization
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
1 min read

My New ESX3i Whitebox

So I finally got around to installing a box for myself to play around with at work. Of course I do not want a noisy server running under my desk (I am sure that my co-workers in the room would not be …

  • ESX3i
  • Miscellaneous
  • Whitebox
  • VMware
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Why Are There two VMware VMTN Communities With the Same Name

I came across something really weird today. Vmware have lots of community forums, and while trying to make some order in the alerts I receive from the forums, I noticed that there are two communities …

  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • vCenter
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So How Are You All Doing with SCVMM Managing vCenter???

That was actually meant to be highly sarcastic, it seems that the folks in Microsoft thought this would be a good idea (acutally it would be very good - if it would work properly..) So you can control …

  • Microsoft
  • SCVMM
  • Scripting
  • Powershell