Windows 8 Developer Preview on ESXi5
Thank you William Lam @lamw!!!!!!! Due to William’s How to Run Windows 8 on vSphere 5 (for reals) post I can now try out Windows 8 Developer Preview on my ESX boxes. This was resolved in patch …
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Subscribe via RSS →InventorySnapshot Fling Updated
Personally I think this is one of the most useful Fling’s I have come across. For those of you who do not know what a fling is… A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a …
Set-VirtualSwitch and a Misunderstanding
I was doing some installations yesterday – and I wanted to add a second NIC to a vSwitch on a set of newly installed servers. Of course there were 10 of them, and I did not want to do this manually. …
Many ways to skin a cat (or write a script)
I wanted to share with you another small example of how there are many ways to do things in PowerCLI. I wrote a post a while back about How to Speed Up Your PowerCLI Queries and there I came to the …
Connecting a USB device to an ESXi 5.0 VM
This is something we have been asking for years and it was only available up until now in VMware View. We can finally connect a USB device to a VM running on ESXi. No additional licensing …
vSphere 5. 0 vRAM Entitlements are to be changed
The first rumor of this was mentioned here by Gabrie van Zanten The original levels were as follows: As I mentioned on a previous post of mine vSphere 5 Licensing is (some kind of) per-VM licensing - …
vSphere 5 Licensing is (some kind of) per-VM licensing
After a rocky two days on the blogosphere, the forums, Twitter, and practically everywhere else, I would like to add in my 2 cents. My apologies if this turns out to be a long post. Firstly let me say …
Reducing the amount of RAM for vCenter Orchestrator
***** Disclaimer ***** This is not recommended by VMware and I am also pretty sure it is not supported either, so if you make this change then do so at your own risk. The vCenter Orchestrator …
Converting a Linux Machine fails during /var clone
I was having some difficulty with the conversion of a Linux machine. Every time I tried to import the machine it would fail at about 19%. So two things I wanted share with you today. If you are using …
Storage vMotion - A Deep-Dive
Of all the features available with vSphere - one of the greatest features I like is Storage vMotion, which is described by VMware as follows: In simple terms, vMotion allows you to move your VM from …