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Veeam's Holiday Present

I would like to tell you a short story about the new present that Veeam has announced today. Just under 2 months ago I sent the message above to Doug Hazelman. The text speaks for itself. This is the …

  • Tools
  • Virtualization
  • vSphere
  • Administration
2 min read

My Android Phone as a USB stick

A few days ago, I was presented with a situation that I had a failed ESX Server which needed to be re-installed. How and what happened is another tory for another time though. I wanted to get some …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • ESX
4 min read

Welcome to VMware Alive VM

Heh? Alive VM? I have never hear of it? Well up until today neither had I. Looking at my previous post Upgrade to Enterprise Plus promotion I clicked on the link (which was originally pointing to the …

  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • VMware
5 min read

Upgrade to Enterprise Plus promotion - ends soon

Act Now to Get More Value from vSphere That is the title of the promotion valid for less than one month from today. For a limited time, you can get VMware vCenter CapacityIQ and/or VMware View for …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
1 min read

New Patch released - VMSA-2010-0016

This was just released. KB 1027027 (ESX) and KB 1027753 (ESXi) I wanted to point out that is should deal with several issues that include a patch to solve this Host crash because of ESX Active …

  • Security
  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
4 min read

Incorrect NFS Datastore mount

I was contacted the other day with an issue where someone was trying to create a cluster in a box, and they were running into an issue. When trying to power on the VM with the shared, …

  • vSphere
  • Administration
  • ESX
  • Troubleshooting
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Get-vSphereClient Function

As was posted on the new KB article 1029925 the vSphere Client is no longer packaged with current builds of ESX and ESXi. However it is packaged with vCenter, so you can still get it from the web …

  • vSphere
  • Powershell
  • 4.1
  • Administration
3 min read

Can We move to only one Physical CPU?

I started reading Eric Siebert’s book this afternoon - Maximum vSphere: Tips, How-Tos, and Best Practices for Working with VMware vSphere 4 (which is a great book - highly recommended!!), and …

  • vSphere
  • VMware
  • ESX
2 min read

Getting Average Usage from your hosts - PowerCLI

I was asked to provide a small report on what the average RAM usage was on each host over the past 30 days I forgot to mention the code was inspired by the session that Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf gave …

  • vSphere
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
  • Administration
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Host Crash because of ESX Active Directory Authentication

I was subscribed to this thread and received an update today that I must have missed previously, with an issue much more serious than the one that the thread was originally started with. Previously, I …

  • Active Directory
  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • Administration