Edward Haletky, a regular on VMTN, and the VMTN round table podcasts, is starting his own spinoff, the “Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast” The first show, scheduled for Thursday at 2:30p EST, is going to feature the following topics: Use of Virtualization in a DMZ. Review of security lockdown standards/benchmarks and tools Virtualization Security in
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This is one of those settings that you only find when you need. Today, I needed it. While writing another post, I decided to go back and get the text of an error that I encountered. This can be done in the VIC by editing the client settings, and then “Lists” in order to grab
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This particular topic comes up from time to time in discussions. Yes it is OK to run Exchange on VMware, and Exchange 2007 on VMware is a supported configuration… for more info, follow the links below: The Podcast – Wednesday, Jan 14, for another round of the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast The Webinar – Jan
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Actually had a wonderful discussion on BlueBear, Kodiak, and all things Geek with the Head Bear Matt himself. Sparing y’all the geeky details, what came of this my dear readers, is that I have Kodiak invites. Lots of them. Right here in fact! Just click on through, and be sure to mention that you came
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VMware release KB 1008130 yesterday, describing just this: Symptoms include: VMware ESX or ESXi host might get disconnected form VirtualCenter. All paths to the LUNs are in standby state. esxcfg-rescan might take a long time to complete or never completes (hung). The KB goes on to say, that right now the only fix is a
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This was announced on twitter, very likely while I was sleeping: jtroyer OK, it didn’t launch today, and I just found a problem with the form. Sigh. I don’t want to leave you empty-handed, so: VMware vExpert about 3 hours ago from web It’s also been announced: VVP -> VMware vExpert » Yellow Bricks Musings
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Time for a new series! Are you as excited and motivated as I am? In this series we’ll cover the Tops and Bottoms of VMware disk types. What are they, how do you make them, what are the benefits and drawbacks, and when would you use them. A lot to cover? Sure IS, but that
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As of today, ProfessionalVMware.com (or at least me, on behalf of ProfessionalVMware.com) is a member of the VI Toolkit (for Windows) VIP Community! What does this mean? It means: As a selected member of our VIP Community you will receive several benefits: 1. Early access to the VI Toolkit. 2. Insight into our product roadmap.
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Why? Because it’s awesome, that’s why. Below is an example, complete with syntax and screenshots on how to defragment a windows guest using VMware’s VIX. Here is what it looked like before: Here is the command used from the host where VIX is installed: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX>vmrun -T esx -h https://vCenter.server.com/sdk – u domain\user -p
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This week I’ve got what looks to be some follow ups to the post from 12/28, on Florida turtles being ravaged for overseas appetites. And one for the post on 1/4 of the Green Sea Turtle Rescue. Florida’s natural bounty being looted Every day, hundreds of wild freshwater turtles are snatched from Florida’s lakes
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This is almost as good as a Peanut butter sandwich with Marshmallow cream. Or at least as good as the four shot “Venti’” mocha I just finished. It seems there is now some third part goodness from the VIX community, that will enable you to use it (VIX That is) with PowerShell. WOOT! The original
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Today I wanted to introduce the concept of IO domains for your storage planning. IO Domains are just that, areas or domains, separated by either policy, performance, or both.
First lets take a look at some of the potential problems and pitfalls they’ll help you avoid:
Not sure where I got the link to this document, but have found it insanely useful, and should very well be committed to memory! (Yes, it’s that good). Table of Contents Section 1. Introduction Section 2. CPU Section 2.1 Worlds and Groups Section 2.2 Global Statistics Section 2.3 World Statistics Section 3. Memory Section 3.1
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I’ll set the scene a little… I’m working late, I’ve just installed Update Manager and I‘m going to run my first updates. Like all new systems, I’m not always confident so I decided “Out of hours” would be the best time to try. I hit “Remediate” on my first Host then sat back, cup
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Virtualization.info provides a LOT of great virtualization related information and services. One of those services, for those of us social-networking inclined, is their Virtualization Vanguards. A Group on LinkedIn. I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined this group, and look forward to seeing what it will bring.
Came across this in a few other blog posts. The VMware Uptime blog is pretty cool so far, and has been added to my RSS reader.
Mr. Brambley at VM/ETC has a great post on SRM, with links to all sorts of really, really useful information. This post is a collection of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) links that have been building up as various notes, to dos, and draft posts collecting dust for VM /ETC. I’m including links to popular
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It seems my Automating VMware With Powershell presentation made the first cut. Click on through and vote for me!
Sort of, it seems: Today, RSA integrates with VMware in an couple of what I would call "useful but not earth-shattering" points – you can integrate envision authentication with Virtual Center and it also integrates with VDM 2.1 and VMware View Manager for hardened authentication. But, with VMware as mission-critical as it is, security
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