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
-> Continue reading TrainSignal PowerCLI Training – Now Available
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
-> Continue reading Come Talk vSphere Design with Scott Lowe – BrownBag
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
-> Continue reading Some PowerCLI 101 – Connecting to Multiple vCenters
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
-> Continue reading TIL – VMware Driver Floppy Images Already Included
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
-> Continue reading vSphere Automation 101 – Use vCenter Orchestrator
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
-> Continue reading BrownBag Success Story – RJ Ratan
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
-> Continue reading VCAP-DCA Live Lab Rescheduled
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
-> Continue reading 2011 vSphere Reading List – Take 2
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
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
-> Continue reading TIL – Snapshots Also Revert VM Settings
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
-> Continue reading VCP4 ExamCram BrownBag!
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
-> Continue reading Spring Reading Pre-Review
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
-> Continue reading VCAP DCA Voucher Give Away – Round 2, Live Lab
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…
-> Continue reading vCenter out of Space! – A Lesson on Shadow Copy
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
-> Continue reading The IPocalypse Cometh – Are You Ready?
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
-> Continue reading VCAP Prep BrownBags – Now With 200% More Vouchers
We’ve covered snapshots here a few separate times in past. However most of these were focused on ESX classic or preforming the work using one API or another. As VMware is making the shift to ESXi, it makes sense that you will need a way to deal with snapshots from the ESXi console (aka TSM/Tech
-> Continue reading Revisiting Snapshots from ESXi (TSM) Tech Support Mode
Yesterday, Virtu-Al announced the demise of The VESI… or the Virtualization EcoShell, or PowerGUI with a Turtle: From now this product is no more, you can still download it at the moment but no further development time will be spent by Vizioncore or Quest on this product, but wait, do not despair, there is good
-> Continue reading No Turtles Were Harmed In The Making of This Post – Long Live PowerGUI