Virtualizing Domain Controllers
One of the frequent questions that come up on the forums is, “How do I convert (P2V) my Windows Domain Controller (or SBS Server)?” Let me first start with the following statement. …
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As Always, Test Before you deploy!!! VMware Data Recovery 1.2 Available. Release Notes - Download Link - Admin Guide Here are some highlights of the new release: a file level restore client for Linux …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 4
So today we will deal with how to get the scripts into the an ESXi installation. On Part 3 we dealt with what the scripts were and how to to use them So how do we get the script to run on startup? The …
vCenter Essentials - 3 Host Limit (not 6 CPU)
vSphere Essentials is a package that is for the SMB. At present there is a promotional offer (Until June 15, 2010) reducing the price from $995 to $495. In this package you receive vCenter and 3 ESX …
MMS 2010 Labs: Powered by Hyper-V -Whatif
No - I have not gone over to the Dark Side. And forgive me for the Powershell pun, but I read an article by Ronald Beekelaar on the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog - demonstrating the wonders of …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 3
Today we will deal with the client and server scripts, and before we start I would like to get the definitions straight. Client Script: The script that is executed on the ESXi machine (Python) Server …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 2
Today we will be dealing with some details of the parts involved. In my previous post - I explained the rationale behind the whole process. So let us get into the schematics. An ESX server can be …
Sneak Preview of ESXi Deployment Solution
Well after cursing more than once at Python on Twitter over the past week or so - I finally got managed to overcome This is a sneak preview of my ESXi Deployment Solution How exactly it works - will …
How to Speed Up Your PowerCLI Queries
It is a known fact that using PowerCLI there are more than one way to skin a cat - or more than one way to access the SDK and the properties that you would like to get. Take for example getting all …
Small Quirk with Get-View vs. Get-VM
I was trying something last night to compare the speed of the two Cmdlets here. I noticed something though. While running the command I wanted to check against how many machines I was running the …