Sometime late this evening, likely around Midnight CST, I’ll be taking down professionalvmware.com for some needed upgrades. (I’ll also be making a backup of the site (something I should have done a while ago)). I don’t figure the upgrades will take all that long, but incase we’re not back by the time you open
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What we have today, was brought up on #ESX on EfNet. They were looking for a script to generate output similar to what you get by clicking on “Hosts and Clusters”, selecting “File > Export > Export List…” Like this: What I came up with is not quite as pretty, but, it works, and you
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There are now four, FOUR ATDG chapters available, HA ha ha! http://www.vi3book.com/index.php/component/content/article/83 I can’t say this enough, but if Virtualization is the new Religion, this is it’s bible, and should be required reading all about.
I never thought of it this way, but alas, this weekend, a few folks have spent quite some time on it. It started with Brenda at Virtual Gipsy: Of the things I learned while studying anthropology, the one that stuck most was to always pay attention to that which stands out. Unexpected behavior, words that
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No I’m not kidding either. Found this via Twitter last evening in fact. There is now a Twitter plugin for the VI client. Not sure how much use it is, but it shows how flexible the plugin stuff can really get. Go to the source and check it out yourself.
Are you submitting? I know I will (or at least think I will).
Maybe not ‘roids, but with a large helping of awesome, like, vDiagram, shown below. Click on over to virtu-al.net to see the rest.
If like me you couldn’t get to VMworld Europe 2009, this will be great news. They’ve made the VI Toolkit Lab available online. I’ll give this a run through later tonight.
I got a bit carried away this weekend on other projects (mostly reading, with a side of biking), so here is an early morning dose of turtle love for this Monday. Picture by: Moha’ Al-Bastaki Turtle Races! The Flint RiverQuarium held their first Turtle Race on the facility’s water steps that same afternoon. “This is
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Go check it out! Be sure to come and see me speak!
Well, this being the third time I’m trying to write this post (some issues with my Wwindows 7 VM, something to be said for autosave). VMware recently released a white paper showing a performance comparison between the e1000 and enhanced vmxnet drivers. In most cases the vmxnet driver outperformed and used less CPU overall than
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I wasn’t there, but had a few other folks on Twitter point out to me that I got a mention during one of Carters presentations on automating VMware with PowerShell. Startled and amazed by this, I asked for some proof, and well… got it: Woo! For those that didn’t know I’ll be doing a similar
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JeOS! Pronounced “Juice”. What a concept. Isn’t it? JeOS is still a relatively new concept in the virtualization scene. Build an appliance with “Just enough OS”. As it’s a relatively new concept, I’ve got a relatively new turtle (two actually, but you’ll meet the other later). Meet JeOS: JeOS is a Red Eared Slider, all
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The VMware Networking Blog has posted a useful set of slides on troubleshooting VMware networking: At VMworld last September, one of our engineering staff, Srinivas Neginhal, delivered a fabulous breakout session on the topic of “VI3 Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting.” Srinivas squeezed a 79-slide deck into the available time—he could have easily doubled or tripled the
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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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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?
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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Really, I updated the about page to include a picture, see: Dead sexxy for a Virtualization Guru I’d say.
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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So literally a few minutes ago the GA release of VMware vConverter 4 was pushed out to the interwebs. Fire up your browser and head over. The documentation and website hasn’t fully been updated, however I can confirm that the download link has been updated. We’ll no doubt have a good few tests going the
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