Cause a Linux Kernel Panic or a Windows BSOD
In some testing I was doing with VM HA monitoring – and I would highly recommend Duncan’s post for some more information on the subject - I needed to crash a VM to test the functionality. So in …
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Subscribe via RSS →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 …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 2
Continuing the problem from part 1. Over the past 8 months this template has been updated with Microsoft security patches (released once a month) and during that time the template OS was activated - …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 3
I would close up what we have learned from part 1 and part 2. During my work with the VMware Support on this case, one of the questions I asked, was is it possible to to inject a parameter into the …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 1
I have been dealing with an issue that has been bugging me for quite a while. It has to do with the deployment of Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 VM’s and License Activation. First let’s …
Linux vs. Windows Live Conversion
I have been entrusted with converting a large number of Virtual machines that are currently hosted on Xen Server into the VMware Infrastructure. There are all sorts of ways of migrating these a …
Virtualization Domain Controllers - #2
I received a number of comments on my previous post and offline as well I want to clear up some things regarding the previous post. I am not against virtualizing domain controllers - not at all. I am …
Monitor AD Replication Status with Powershell
Do you know the feeling? You have 40 domain controllers located in 20 different locations - with a multitude of child domains and children of those child domains, on all sides of the globe (yeah I …
Inject VMware drivers into Source OS before P2V
P2V a machine - who does not want to get rid of all their physical machines to get the rid of the old hardware? If so raise you hand! So now that we have that out the way - P2V’ing a Windows …
Distribution and Security Groups
I was asked to day at work, “What would be the quickest way to add all of the members of a Distribution Group to a Security Group?”, the reason of course being because you cannot assign …