UK techdays Free events in London – including after hours.

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, ...

Changing the directory of your vSphere vCenter log files

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 ...

SimDK – VMware vSphere4 simulator

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Andrew Kutz already has released amazing pieces of code during the past years, back in May 2007 he revealed the source code of his tool that can add port groups to all your ESX servers. In February 2008 he released the source code of his tool ...

Windows Phone 7 Breaks Cover. I want one.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

First look of Windows Phone 7 for me, and I' have to say, I’m impressed!

VM powered on Alarm?

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

One of my readers(Thanks Andrzej!) emailed me something that I thought might be interesting for those who are closely monitoring their environment. Did you know that there are two similar VM event triggers in Alarms in vCenter? VM powered on DRS – VM powered on The first only works for VMs outside of DRS ...

Cars, social media, phones, windows media and there’s no hiding with co-pilot.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

As titles go that’s an odd one, but stay with me. I’ve written before about my Citroen C6: Before Christmas a warning message popped up saying something was wrong with the hydro-pneumatic suspension which give the big Citroens their wonderful ride. A visit to the garage confirmed the ...

Virtualization Short Take #36

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

It’s been a busy couple of weeks! I was in Vienna, Austria, all last week, and I’m on the US West Coast this week. Even though I’ve been on the go, I’ve still been collecting various virtualization-related posts and tidbits. Here they are for you in Virtualization Short Take #36! ...

Adding NICs to your vSwitch on ESXi?

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

I just finished installing vSphere ESXi 4.0 update 1, I used all the default settings. I expected that all my portgroups would inherit all their settings from the vSwitch that was configured during installation… unfortunately this is not the case as can be seen in the screenshots below. Default install with ...

The vmClient 4.0 is released

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The vmClient is a lightweight tool which enables you to control the power of your virtual machines, it’s also capable of presenting the MKS console of your virtual machines. Before you can use the vmClient, you have to install the vSphere client on the same system. ...

A FAT (32) lot of good that did me …

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

First rule of blogging. Don’t blog when angry. I’ve been through a time consuming process which could be called educational – in the sense of “Well ! That taught me a lesson”. My drug regime has been mentioned before in my posts, and this is one of those ...