Having just pulled down and installed ESXi, I figured that now is a good time to see what all of the noise around VMware Go was about. Well, perhaps not what it is about, there is plenty of marketing literature for that. Rather, how it works. Time to dig in: What is VMware Go? While
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Thanks to the generosity of some really cool folks at work I am now a MacBook Pro believer. That said, one of my tasks over the holidays was to get things migrated from my old Ubuntu install and into OSX. The first place to start was with my Virtual Machines. The first one over was
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As promised, here is the follow-up post with the bits and links that we discussed during the study group. We had also discussed doing this again next week Wednesday at 3P CST (12/23/09) as a last bit of prep before the year end deadline for VCP upgrades. This will likely occur just after the VMTN
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"Sokath, his eyes opened" or roughly “Understanding”. So what does the Tamarian language have to do with PSODs or Machine Check Exceptions (MCEs)? Well, neither one of them make much sense, and need some understanding in order to translate them appropriately. What is an MCE (Machine Check Exception) A machine check exception, or MCE is
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The deadline to upgrade from VCP3 to VCP4 is fast approaching. While there are plenty of good resources out there for studying, nothing beats playing 20 questions with a group of your peers. As such, ProfessionalVMware will be hosting a 1 hour WebEx study group so we call all help one another pass. Important information:
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I have slacked on this post quite a bit, but alas an exam report is due. Exam: VCP-410 Status: Passed I was/am a present holder of a VCP3, and before 12/31 was allowed to upgrade without having to take an additional course. That said, there are now several valuable courses from VMware that qualify. Basically,
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It’s HERE! What is? The vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide, that’s what. Oh, and it’s all of $15.99 US. This book is all of the distilled virtualization knowledge from some of the heavy hitters in the virtualization realm: Thomas Bryant III Stu Radnidge Dave Mishchenko Alan Renouf Duncan Epping The book has evolved from the
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Now that we’ve upgraded our client and installed it on Windows 7, let’s upgrade our ESX or ESXi host: 1. Fire up Host Update Utility & Download new Patches from VMware: 2. Scan for updates: 3. OMG Patches! Lets Patch the host (Make sure the host is in maint mode first!): 4. Install FTW!
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As we pointed out earlier in the week, vSphere Update 1 now supplies a Windows 7 compatible client, one that works out of the box. However, There are some folks who have not jumped into Update 1 yet, but still need to manage vSphere hosts. Not a problem you might think, and try to hop
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Actually, this happened on the 2nd of this month, but alas. It has been an exciting, whirlwind year for ProfessionalVMware, and I hope y’all enjoyed it too! But a single blog post is no way to celebrate, is it? So I propose this: T-Shirt/Logo contest. Basically, I’m as artistically inclined as a goat. So while
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I left this one critical piece off my “Me Too” vSphere 4 Update 1 post, and wasn’t reminded of it again until today. From the PlanetVMware blog: In case you didn’t notice, Update 1 for VMware vCenter Server 4.0 was released last week. This is great news for all of you who wish to run
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While I generally don’t like doing a “Me Too” sort of post, I think the U1 release of vSphere is important enough to recap what some of the other blogs are saying on this. Rather than ramble off what has changed, and what is improved, etc. I will instead point you to some blogs who
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While all of PowerCLI is remarkable in both it’s power and ease of use, there are some cmdlets that do not get as much airtime as they deserve. One of those, is Invoke-VMScript. From Get-Help InvokeVMScript NAME Invoke-VMScript SYNOPSIS Executes the specified PowerShell script in the guest OS of each of the specified
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Today I needed to disable the VMware tools/console copy & paste functionality… on a lot of VMs (well… more than one is a lot). In doing this, I came across these directions from vmzare: How To disable copy and paste operations between the guest operating system and remote console ? 1. Log on to the
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After you’ve spent the time installing VMware Data Recovery (vDR), you may find that some of the defaults do not work well. Some of these, like the retention policies are an easy change. Others, like the behavior of the vDR appliance, however, are a bit more difficult. To that end, you can create a datarecovery.ini
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If that title won’t have my mother calling me… Well, at least it someone’s attention. Prior to VMware Player 3.0 I never gave it much time of day. Sure it worked, and sure there was a way to work around the create VM limitation and the like, but it just wasn’t… well, you got what
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The last time we touched upon LUN resigning, it was during an odd hour of the night. Looking back now, some interesting VMware KB articles have cropped up around this very topic. First there is KB 9453805, which covers this process for VI3, seemingly from top to bottom, it also greatly expands on my post,
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While I’d love to be able to claim I was clever enough to think of this on my own, that would straight up be lying (I really am not all that clever :). Well, it would be more than lying, I’d not be giving proper credit to his awesomeness Rich Brambley at VM/Etc for coming
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If you are looking for a detailed explanation of the features and enhancements to the storage stacks in ESX 4 as well as the differences between storage in ESX 3.5 and 4.0, the following presentation has what you are looking for: Vmug V Sphere Storage (Rev E) View more presentations from guesta849bc8b. vSphere Storage: Features
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Note: This is a guest post provided to us by an extremely smart gentleman, with whom I’ve worked closely with in the past. At this time however, homeboy prefers to remain anonymous. I get questions like this all the time: "I’m trying to help educate my management on the importance of having the right microcode
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