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Do you? I do!

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

Really, I assure you, it will be very anticlimactic.

Found out from VM/Etc and a few other sources today, that the recent opening of the ESXi 3.5 Update 3 API’s was an accident, and they’re going to be locked down again soon. That sucks.

Because all one-hundred of these questions will come up, often, here is a link to VMware’s VIOPS Top 100 Security Questions. 25. How do you ensure that only certain administrators can connect to the ESX Service Console? (Dan Eason) Implementing TCP Wrappers ensures only certain IP address or Subnets can connect to the SSHD and
-> Continue reading VMware Security Resources

Sorry, that I chose a budget host before starting down this road. The budget host, doing what budget hosts do, had a badly handled failure. This in turn caused the site to be down since yesterday at 2p PST.We’re back up for now… but we’ll see. Here is a link to their issue page: Spacey
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The FDA seems to think so. While we wondered if the FDA was simply crying ‘wolf’ on the safety of turtles as pets to cause some press to come their way, it turns out that the FDA’s claim that turtles can be unsafe as pets is completely valid.   According to an article written Consumer
-> Continue reading Sunday Turtle Blogging – Are Turtles Dangerous Pets?

so, Veeam the purveyors of all things shiny like Veeam Backup, Veeam Reporter, etc… They’re feeling nice and keeping the holiday cheer going! So sign up here Veeam XMAS Freebie! No idea what it’ll end up being, but here’s the clue: ‘If you liked FastSCP, you’ll love this’ Patrick

5 Days now… Till? Guessed yet? If not, here are 5 PowerShell one-liner’s you cant live without. get-vm | get-snapshot | where { $_.Created -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)} get-vm | get-view | %{ $_.Config } | select Name,Uuid get-vm | Get-CDDrive | Set-CDDrive -Connected:$false -Confirm:$false get-template MyTemplate | new-vm -vmhost esxserver01 -name MyVM -OSCustomizationSpec MySpec get-vmhost –name
-> Continue reading 5 Days – 5 PowerShell One-Liners You Can’t Live Without

I’ve just come across a blog post from Virtual Strategy and he lists quite a few awesome sounding scripts in this post, you can read it here. The ones that really catch my eye are the ones that generate documentation for the admin, quite useful when you have to quickly spit out reports for clients.
-> Continue reading Top 10 Powershell Scripts by Virtual Strategy

Instead of guessing today, list the 6 things you love most about VMware/Virtualization. Here’s mine: vMotion Storage vMotion Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) VI Toolkit for Windows (PowerShell) Snapshots Clone VMs (Live) What are yours? Tell me in the comments.

Keep an eye out for this one early next year. I’ve been tech reviewing it since the beginning, and can tell you it’s something that you’ll want to keep next to your pillow at night. Ok, so maybe I’m the only one who does that, but it is nonetheless a good read. (I may even
-> Continue reading Book: Managing VMware Infrastructure With Windows PowerShell: TFM

Hey Folks, So I’m new to these parts. I work with Cody, and will be posting my experiences and world in the virtualization wonderland that is our work life. To start with I’m going to focus on update manager for large environments, and then move onto other projects as they come up. I’ve just recently
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  Photo by JoaquinFuentes Some of you will be disappointed to find out, that at the end of this, there will be only something so very mundane that you will question why I’m doing this, and my sanity! Again, post all your guesses in the comments.

Until? You know the answer, don’t you. I’m sure of it. Leave your speculation in the comments.

Virtualization, and Virtual are wonderful buzzwords now-a-day’s aren’t they? It seems with some format modification, webcasts have now become “Virtual Conferences” or “Virtual Seminars”. It’s a cool concept though, especially because I have an allergy for airplanes/travel. Here are some coming up this month. (From Brian Madden)

Image By: blentley Till? Guess. I’m sure you can speculate. I assure you, that while I may be excited about it, the rest of you wont be. The rest remains a thought exercise for the reader. Leave your guesses in the comments.

It seems I’ve been getting some attention. So hello to all of you wandering in. Sit back, grab a caffeinated beverage, and enjoy a good read.

While there may be a Santa Claus Virginia, and he brought you ESXi for free, he didn’t bring you Serial Port Access. This isn’t because after several hundreds of years of delivering toys to little girls and boy’s has got him scrooged out, it’s because ESXi has a footprint that is all of 32mb in
-> Continue reading No Virginia, You Can’t Have Serial Port Access in ESXi