Perhaps it’s just been a while since I’ve needed said floppy image, but I recall a time when you had to search the VMware KB to get the XP LSI driver. Well, today while changing some of my lab VMs over to PVSCSI, I found that the needed floppy images are in “/vmimages/floppies/” (at least
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Why? Because I said so. Perhaps that is a bit too direct. However, if you are like me, you often find yourself with more to do than time to do it in. Or, like my other side, you’re professionally lazy. If you’re the latter, don’t worry, I wont tell anyone. If you are either, vCO
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I’ve done some reflecting on the BrownBags recently, reviewing stats and the like and came across a recent success story. Who is RJ? RJ is a virtualization guru with a Texas based Telco and was one of the recipients of the VCP410 ExamCram book. RJ also runs http://itgrunts.com/ With the book, some BrownBags, and lots
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Were you there? It was awesome! Thanks Kendrick for presenting & thanks to Jason Boche for the VCAP Exam vouchers! Now on to the good stuff: The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag With Kendrick Coleman from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links The contest: https://vbrownbag.comm/2011/02/vcap-dca-voucher-give-away-round-2-live-lab/ Kendrick’s Blog: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/ VCAP-DCA Page: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vcap-datacenter-administration-exam-landing-page-vdca410.html “Green Machine” Lab: http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vmware-vsphere-home-lab-qthe-green-machinesq.html Other BrownBags &
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Nathan Small, a Senior Escalation Engineer with VMware storage sent along this presentation he has been giving on troubleshooting vStorage Performance. Lots of gold in here… lots and lots: vSphere vStorage: Troubleshooting Performance View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware.
Update 3/14 @ 10A At this point, Kendrick is rebuilding various bits of his home lab due to some damage caused in the outage. So we’re going to put this on hold for a bit longer. I’ve cancelled the current Goto Webinar invite and will post again when we’ve got a better date. Original Howdy
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I’ve hit the point in Chrome where I’ve been so productive that I can’t be productive. That is, the point in which I have more tabs open than I could hope to reasonably read. What that means for y’all, is that as I close them out, I hit a few that hit interest points and
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By popular demand (who would have thought) I’m launching another bi-weekly BrownBag series. Topics this time include VMware certification, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD, vSphere Design, and other technical deep dive discussions. Kick-Off To kick off the series, we’ll be having Scott Lowe, one of the authors of the newly released vSphere Design book. Some background on the
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It took a little while, but we’ve received a submission for the VCAP-DCA voucher contest. The submission came from Kendrick Coleman. The critical details: Date/Time: Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 7PM CST Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/689250984 Come join us for our first Live Lab presentation!
One of the questions I get asked most often is some variant of: “I’m new to vSphere, how do I get up to speed?” or “I’ve been using VMware for ages, but I want to take it to the next level, recommendations?” My most common answer, is read. Read lots, and read often. With that
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Just putting this here for my own reference (as I often find Google indexes my site better than the VMware KB). Speaking of KB. Here is the relevant VMware KB. VMFS3 Block Size choices & Volume limits: Block Size Largest virtual disk on VMFS-3 1MB 256GB 2MB 512GB 4MB 1TB 8MB 2TB
First, a big thank-you to both Elias for taking the time to chat with us, and to Pearson for providing copies of his new ExamCram book for BrownBag goers. Now onto the content: For those that missed this BrownBag, we talked to Elias Khnaser about his new VCP4 ExamCram book. Here is the video for
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Actually, learned this one yesterday, but just got around to writing the post. I was actually clued into this by some friends in the UK. According to these VMware docs: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-esx-4-1/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#context=vm_admin&file=c_about_snapshots.html An ESX snapshot contains the VM settings. Thus reverting it, will also revert this settings. Because I was under the opposite impression, I
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Woot! Yes, woot! Woot we will be having Elias Khnaser, the author of “VCP4 Exam Cram 2nd Edition” on our next BrownBag. Yeah, this book, right here: Cool? Ok, well, “We’ve had guests before” you say. “How is this one different?”, you say… well, it’s different in that, I have 5 copies of this book
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It’s that time of year again, when all the hard work various folks in the community turn into tangible products. In this round we’ve some second editions of some popular books. Let’s dive right in: VCP4 Exam Cram Elias Khnaser (@ekhnaser) The VCP4 Exam Cram volume looks to be about the only game in town
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends… On this week’s BrowBag we’re giving away yet another VCAP-DCA voucher. As we talked about before, round 2 will be a live lab. What do I mean? The first person who meets these two requirements by Tuesday, February 15, 2011: Has a workable solution to
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Ran into an issue today where my vCenter would not come back up after a reboot. Standard troubleshooting ensued… the DB is up, it is accessible, odbc is Kosher, etc. At that point, Windows helpfully popped up a message balloon: “I pity the fool who runs outta disk space!” So I dug, and a dug…
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And then, there was a winner! Matt Liebowitz is the winner of the first VCAP-DCA Voucher! Congrats sir. Details will be e-mailed to you shortly. Stay tuned, we still have at least one more voucher to give away. This time with a live lab! Now, onto the video, flash cards, and correct answers: Video ProfessionalVMware
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Maybe not in the fall out bunker sense ready, this isn’t Y2K all over again… not yet anyways. Before the hysteria engine cranks up to full speed, I figured it was time to give you some tips to make sure you are ready. Note, I’m only going to cover making sure your ESX hosts are
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That’s right folks, VCAP Exam vouchers… Thanks to Jason Boche for making these available to us as prizes. That’s right, prizes. You didn’t think there wouldn’t be work attached did you? So here’s the game, in two rounds: Round 1 – Lightning Round I have a set of Q&A flash cards, the kind that have
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