I’m back from vacation now! Woo! So to get the juices flowing, and the posts ramped back up, here is this Sunday’s Turtle blog post. This one about rare sea turtles beaching themselves on new-years. Just before New Year’s Eve, the Seaside Aquarium was kept busy with a green sea turtle and a shark both
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I’ve tried not to cover much outside ESX so far, but one cannot keep their head in the sand about what else is out there. Following on Pancil’s ESXi Post, I’ve found a breakdown, here of the "Free" Virtualization products. Keep in mind, tis not my post, just came across it while looking some things
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Shot above is my view of the incoming new year, from the 40th street beach, Boca Raton, Fl. Welcome to 2009!
I told myself I’d not post on vacation, but alas, this story pulls my heart strings. It’s also happening in Florida, which happens to be where I’m from originally, and where all my friends and family are at. This comes from the LA Times: Asia appetite for turtles seen as a threat to Florida species
I have it on good word that as of Wednesday last week the VMware turtles have gone on winter vacation to their condo in the Amazon Rain Forest. They’ll be back after the cold snap ends.
There have been a few situations lately where having the VMware VM Mobility guide was quite handy. Thanks to a co-worker for finding this and bringing it to my attention. Because different products were launched at different times, you cannot determine corresponding generations by matching product version numbers. The following list provides a quick
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That I go on Vacation! I’ll be leaving in about 2 hours to sunny Boca Raton, Florida to spend the next two weeks with family and friends for the holidays. The blog volume will likely slow "WAY” down, but I believe I’m leaving you in the hands of some very capable guest posters: Pancil, Darky,
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After such great luck with the Windows version, I found a few things. First was that resxtop was not included in the Windows bundle. Which lead me to the second: /tmp/vmware-rcli-distrib$ ./vmware-install.pl This version of "VMware VI Remote Command Line Tools" is incompatible with this operating system. Please install the "x86_64" version of this program
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Mr. Epping over at Yellow-Bricks posted this on VMFS3 Heap Size. I’m reposting here for future reference. I was talking to a fellow consultant today. He ran into the following error messages at one of his customer sites: vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 cpu2:1410)WARNING: Heap: 1370: Heap_Align(vmfs3, 4096/4096 bytes, 4 align) failed. caller: 0×8fdbd0 vmkernel: 8:18:59:58.640 cpu2:1410)WARNING: Heap:
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Tom Howarth from PlanetVM turned me on to a great series of posts by Ed Haletky on how to manage different combinations of NIC’s in VMware ESX: Blue Gears – 2 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue Gears – 3 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue Gears – 4 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Blue
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From Yellow-Bricks: Peter posted a VCDX Study Guide that covers most the topics on the VCDX Enterprise Exam Blueprint. NICE!
Since my first few posts on this got a bit of attention, I thought I’d add some more to this. In today’s post we’ll cover adding or deleting a route, and setting a default route. I’ve got requests for others that will keep the next few weeks worth of VIX posts busy. We’ll cover this
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I’m still not sure I get it, but I’m Twittering. and can be followed here
Wait, what? Used to be you could only get these as iso’s embedded with what ever release/version of VMware you were working with. Now, their available for download from the VMware site! On this site, you will be able to search, browse and download VMware Tools software packaged in the native package format (e.g. rpm,
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get-datacenter MyVC | get-vm | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*1"} | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName NotThatNetwork -Confirm:$false So, say you provision all of your VM’s on one host, with one set of networks, that is completely removed from the remainder of your infrastructure. You then Cold-Migrate the new VM’s to their new homes. You now
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Like… this is almost as cool as the RC Battle Bots my son and I got for Christmas. It’s the VMware Reference Architecture. This reference architecture kit is comprised of four distinct papers written by VMware and our supporting partners to serve as a guide to assist in the early phases of planning, design and
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Ok maybe not since sliced bread, but at least since the advent of server slicing. The VMware HCL now comes to us entirely online, and in a searchable format! WOOT! Get to it from here! RSS Feeds of the HCL here! From the VMTN Blog and VM/ETC
This comes again from the Fusion team, but applies to ESX as well. Go Fusion Team Go! The main way is via VMware Toolbox. You’ll need Tools installed, of course, and the way you get to it depends on the guest OS you’re running. In Windows, right-click the VMware-three-boxes logo in the system tray and
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My new best friend? You can’t tell me who my friends are! That is not allowed! Who is this rCLI fellow and how dare you make such a claim! Well, the rCLI, better known as “VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI” The VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI provides a command-line interface for datacenter management from a remote server.
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