I can’t say this will fix it for everyone, or will even be the cause of your 500 error. Earlier today an epic battle played out between Windows Live Writer and the WordPress install this site sits on. More specifically, I was greeted with a “500 Server Error”. In my server logs I found the
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Amazon posted my 4 star review of Ed Haletky’s (@Texiwill) updated VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise. Let me start with saying I’ve read the first edition of this book and Ed’s Security book and found both to be excellent. As this book was a second edition, I focused my reading on those updated
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Have you been to a BrownBag? Have you wanted to and haven’t had the time? Do I run them too late, early, on the wrong day? What about the format, to long? short? To little lab, to many words? Content wrong? Not deep enough? Tell me what you think here: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/526243/BrownBag Picture from this guy.
Nostra-Daniel once pontificated that memory is like stacking penguins on an island. Each thing you’d like to remember is a penguin, as you fill the island, you have to choose which penguins end up in the ocean. For me, setting a static IP on Ubuntu was one of those penguins that ended up being fed
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This one isn’t so much a long winded explanation post as the last one. Rather this one highlights the usefulness of vCenter Orchestrator and it’s built in workflows for facilitating the mass migration of virtual resources. The Scenario This guy comes in… and if you’ve seen the movie, you’re hearing it in his voice too:
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I’ll save you posting the entire press release, and just call out the new or upgraded features: Create custom groups of resources, either physical or virtual; Create custom logins (customer views) with either read-only or actionable privileges for these groups; Focus on a subset of infrastructure via a custom login to use and view a
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Amazon just posted my 5 star review of VMware vSphere Design. The review: I received this book via Kindle loan for 14 days, of which I only needed about 12 to get through it. Mind, that is not because the content was light, far from it. It was because the book did the following things:
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The Video: ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – vSphere Security from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links: Ed’s Site – http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/ Ed’s vSphere Security Book Ed on Twitter Summary: First, I seem to have misplaced the chat logs. There were a few good links shared. If y’all still have them handy, please drop them in the comments. As you
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This get’s to be the third post in the “vSphere Automation 101” series or so. Not sure I want to call it a series, as that denotes some kind of commitment, and well, as we’ve discussed in prior posts, I’m lazy. Before we get too deep, here are links to the first and second parts
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A few of you may have heard the mutterings on Twitter that I was hunting around for some new gear. At first I was going to go down the path that Kendrick Coleman took and build out a white box lab (See his green machines post here). However, as I got into the weeds of
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The TSM in ESXi is a Posix like environment and much of it resembles and behaves much as you would expect the old RHEL based service console to. That said, some of it is very different too. Today, I figured out that while it may not have all of the features I’m used to (screen),
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Following up on some of my other TIL posts and a really really bad “vMotion on a stick” experiment, I had to get down and dirty with the ESXi CLI. Without further adieu heres how to List, Start, and Stop VMs from the ESXi CLI (aka TSM): Note: You’ll need to have TSM (ssh) enabled
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Hot on the heels of Scott Lowe, we are going to have Ed Haletky (aka @texiwill) on the BrownBags to talk about “Virtual Environment Security”. That is, the security of your virtual environment and associated management components. Critical Details: Date/Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 7PM CST Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/351927521 Ed’s Last BrownBag This is not
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When you are configuring vCO, one of the requisite steps is to configure LDAP. While vCO has some pretty nifty search buttons, you can still get this info and more using DSquery. Here’s a few examples: Find a Specific Group PS C:\> DSquery OU -name "ProVMware Users" "OU=ProVMware Users,DC=provmware,DC=local" Find a Specific OU PS C:\>
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The Video ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBags – Scott Lowe from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Scott’s Take Away: Know the products you are working with. Then, know them some more. …Really, know them frontwards and backwards Also, know how they interact with other technologies Links: Scott’s Blog – http://blog.scottlowe.org/ Jason’s Blog – http://boche.net/ Buy the “vShpere Design” book
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A few vCO related things happened over the past few days. First is: VMware launched the vCenter Orchestrator Blog! If you’re into vCO, add this to your list of resources. The second, and just as exciting, was the release of the vCO Plug-In for Cisco UCS. the UCS Manager plug-in provides the necessary pieces to
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Not sure how to write this without sounding the gushing Fanboi, but I’ll give it a shot… Hal Rottenberg, in combination with TrainSignal have released “VMware vSphere PowerCLI Training”. To give you an idea as to how much awesome is packed in there… Hal is the author of the first Managing VMware with PowerShell books
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Scott Lowe will be along for this weeks BrownBag to talk vSphere Design, his new book, and anything else we can come up with. New Book? Yes, Scott, in combination with Maish Saidel-Keesing, and Forbes Guthrie have put together a tome of… well, vSphere Design awesomeness. Go read a sample chapter here, or order it
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The RPM version of the VMware tools installer for Linux guests seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. In addition, the tools ISO for Linux has been provided as it’s own download, that is hidden away on the ESX or ESXi download pages, rather than the “Tools and Drivers” page. Not sure why,
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A few things brought this post together. First is that Glen Sizemore of Get-Admin and I have co-submitted a “vSphere Automation 101 – PowerCLI” session to the VMworld 2011 CFP. We thought it’d be an excellent idea to share some of that content before hand. The second, and just as important, is that I’m Lazy
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