Thursday, March 11th, 2010
This is just a quick post about a potential fix for some timeout issues when using EMC Replication Manager (RM). An e-mail sent to an internal distribution list described a situation in which a user was using RM but was getting an error when trying to take a VMware snapshot. ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
During the latest edition #85 of John Troyer’s VMware Communities Roundtable there was a little discussion about using a Linux host as a view client. I’ve discovered a nice little live CD from Thinstation which has the VMware View Open Client 4.0 built-in and it only ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Last night I needed to update some of my hosts with the latest patches that have been released recently, this gave me the ideal opportunity to look at the recently released VMware Update Manager cmdlets for PowerCLI.
For a full list of cmdlets or to download click here.
Whilst upgrading one of ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Ages (and I mean ages!) ago, I produced a video on utilising Sanbolic’s Kayo/Melio FS with Hyper-V, as at the time, it was a fantastic way to overcome the 1 LUN per VM scenario that existed with Hyper-V R1 and brought a number of benefits along with it. Keyo/Melio FS ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
A couple of weeks back, I blogged about the launch of App-V 4.6, and the large amount of resources that were made available to coincide with that launch. From documents, through to downloads, there was a huge amount of information, but one particular resource that many have found useful was ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
readylines.com, the one-liner specialist
This site has a list of useful one-line commands for tools like openssl, grep, sed, awk, curl, nc, and dig. Some Cisco IOS commands are also included.
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0 is something of an overlooked utility for small business and lab environments wanting to patch or upgrade their ESX/ESXi hosts. In this basic ‘how to’ post I’m going to run through the steps in upgrading a VMware ESXi 4.0 host to ESXi 4.0 Update ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Unable to cast object error when trying to change the Preferred Path on a Storage Adapter? Here's a fix.
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
You may have seen that registration for UK TechDays events from 12th to 16th April is already open - but you probably won’t have seen this newly announced session, even if you are following @uktechdays on twitter After Hours @ UK Tech Days 2010 – Wednesday 14th April, ...
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Something that a lot of people haven’t looked in to or just don’t think about is relocating the log files of vCenter, I wrote a short article 2 years ago and thought it was time to reiterate it. By default (Windows 2003) log files are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\All ...
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