Not At VMWorld Europe 2009
Just fair warning, that we’ll still be on normal programming whilst this is going on. Which I figure is a good thing. There will be plenty of news coming out from the event, I don’t want to over saturate.
Author: Cody Bunch
Where Did I Put My Tools? Are They In Sync? – Checking the VMware Tools with PowerShell
It’s 7PM, do you know where your VMware Tools are? Rather, do you know if all your VM’s have them installed and running? Here is a one-liner to check that with PowerShell: get-vm | where { $_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn" } | Get-VMGuest | where { $_.State -ne "Running" } | select vmName, State What this
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VCP’s Rock!
VMware launched a new program today, VCP’s Rock (http://vcpsrock.com). Apparently the first 100 VCP upgrades from 2.5 to 3.5 will get an iPod sound system. Check it out yourself. I’m wondering however, what’s in store for us who already have a VCP on 3.5?
What VLAN is that VM On? Ask PowerShell!
When your network engineer, or other random folks are looking for some assistance in updating their vlan map Visio, or are generally trying to make their work yours (who doesn’t love to delegate) you can bash out this one liner against your VI, and instantly have a list of what VM is on what VLAN.
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About Page Updated – Now With Pictures!
Really, I updated the about page to include a picture, see: Dead sexxy for a Virtualization Guru I’d say.
Who is Using Thinapp?
Basically, just what the title says, who is using it, what for, and is there an interest in posts or a forum around it? Post in the comments your thoughts.
How Do You Prepare Your Templates?
Template VM’s are specialized VM’s. They’re designed to allow you to rapidly re-deploy preconfigured virtual machines, with little to no fuss. Often, however, that is not the case. I mean, who doesn’t just right click and “Convert to Template…” What that action does, is simply mark a file letting vCenter and ESX both know it’s
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Sunday Turtle Blogging – How Do Turtles Handle The Winter
Picture by: Harold_5056@flickr Because it’s still cold around these parts. At least, still cold for a Floridian living in Texas. Here is a comforting article about how these little guys survive the winter: Questions about how various animals survive winter come across my desk (or rather my computer screen) rather frequently. Every species living in
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How To Read Dumps – ESX Crash Dumps That Is
About thirty years ago in the jungle in South Korea I was spending some time living as a monk. One of the things I learned from these monks, was the ancient art of Dump reading. Yes! That’s right, I can tell the future by reading the finer texture and smell of a dump. Ok, while
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Vendor Utilities – Dell DSET and ESX
Not sure how useful these will be to anyone else, but here is how to get & use Dell’s DSET utility on ESX: First pull the DSET utility from here. sftp (scp, etc) Dell’s DSET utility to your home dir. chmod 777 the DSET util [root]# ls -alh total 24M -rwxrwxrwx 1 bunchc bunchc 24M
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Trouble Getting VMware HA Working? – Basic Troubleshooting For VMware’s HA
Trouble with your HA config? vCenter (VirtualCenter) giving you all kinds of crap while setting it up? Let’s take a look some things to do when ‘Configure HA’ bunks up. Do you meet the requirements? There are a few things that you need in order to make sure all the bits of HA work. There
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Sunday Turtle Blogging – North Carolina Bill Preventing Turtle Export
Good news for North Carolina Turtles, from thestate.com A House subcommittee approved a bill (H.3121) designed to prevent the mass exportation of our turtles for food or the pet trade. The bill allows no more than 10 of certain species of turtles to be taken from the state by any individual, and no more than
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Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager – Chapter 1 Now Available!
Mike Laverick is doing something cool… he’s starting to slowly release his SRM book, chapter by chapter. Today, was chapter 1 To celebrate the arrival of my first advertiser to RTFM. I would like to begin the process of slowly releasing my SRM book free to download. The SRM book will remain commercially available for
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Y’all See This? – Nexus 1000v Architecture Write Up
Not sure when I came across this, and how late to the game I am on it, but alas, cleaning out my Firefox tabs today I came across a deployment diagram for the Nexus 1000v on ESX4: Some key observations of importance: * The version of ESX running here is ESX 4.0 (not yet
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And the Pissing Contest Begins!
Incase you’ve missed this, project VRC & VMware have released XenApp TS benchmarks with conflicting results, which seems to have the virtualization blogosphere in a tussle. Here is a good summary. Honestly, I think the debate is good, as is having multiple benchmarks around this. Like a election, one should do their own research, and
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VMware Tech Games & GA Southern
Avnet Tech Games! This year’s AvNet Tech Games features a VMware Virtualization Challenge: VMware Virtualization Challenge – Student teams will be given three unique physical enterprise computer platform scenarios with the goal of producing a 3-5 year roadmap maximizing their business value while factoring in proper ROI and architectures with consideration for the current virtualization
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Now Where Did I Put My VMotion?
Let’s say you have a metric heck ton of hosts, and you need to check them… all. To see if VMotion has been enabled properly. How do you do it? Well, you could hire that out of work banker now out in front of the grocery store to come and click through all of the
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Early Monday Turtle Blogging
Didn’t forget this week. Really I didn’t. I did however disconnect from the ‘tubes on Friday, and not plug back in till this morning at work. Today is some new fishing rules aimed at saving the turtles
VMTN Roundtable #33
The link over on the VMTN blog is a bit off and identifies this as #32, but I assure you, this was the VMTN podcast #33, discussing the VITK 1.5 release, and a few other things. TalkShoe Link
Project VRC!
Came across this in my RSS reader, and figured it was worth a mention. Project VRC (Virtual Reality Check) provides vendor neutral white papers on how to best configure Xen, Hyper-V, and VMware for different workloads. Do you wonder about virtualization? Are you seeking for the best virtualization platform for your specific environment? Project VRC
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