Oh My! PowerGUI VMware PowerPack 2.1.5 – Now On ‘Roids!
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.
VMworld Europe 2009 – VI Toolkit Lab Manual Available!
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.
Early Monday Turtle Blogging
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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Virtualization Congress Speaker Profile Available
Go check it out! Be sure to come and see me speak!
e1000 vNIC’s Hate Me – How To Find And Change vNic Types With The VI ToolKit
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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ProfessionalVMware @ VMWorld Europe 2009
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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Now This is Very Interesting – Open Source VMFS Driver!
Interesting indeed. Scott Lowe & Mr. Brambley already did an excellent write up, so I’ll spare you more boring reading. However, this opens up some further cool uses for VMFS. “This driver enables read-only access to files and folders on partitions formatted in the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) by VMware. VMFS is a clustered
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Sunday Turtle Blogging – Meet JeOS!
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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Come See Us In Person – Virtualization Congress Early Bird Registration Ends Soon!
Incase you didn’t know Pancil and I will be presenting “Automating Virtual Infrastructures With Windows PowerShell” at the Virtualization Congress. Yes… Virtualization Infrastructures, not just VMware, but Xen and Hyper-V too. Get your early registration on over here. Leave me a bit of a note in the comments if you’re planning on coming.
Bad Things Happen at 2am – How To Resign a VMFS Partition
Well, it started at midnight, a standard hardware upgrade really. Power down the VM’s, shut down the host, and call the DC team to do their thing. Twenty minutes later, got a ring from the DC, that the upgrade had been completed. I popped open the VC, and well, there was no local storage. It
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VMware vExperts Announced!
… And I’m now one of them. Whichever six of you nominated me thanks! Actually I’m quite humbled they’ve chosen me for this award amongst so many other excellent candidates. At this point I’m one of about 300 of these vExperts Globally. Here is the post from VMware: Congratulations and thank you to all our
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VI Toolkit Quick Reference Card
At least three of these, and laminate at least one. Really. The VI Toolkit Quick Reference card by Virtual-Al is a perfect starter guide, and quick reference doc for those working with the VI Toolkit. Not only because I’ve got a line or two in it, but because it really is useful, take a look:
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VMware Time Keeping Best Practices KB Updates
VMware has updated their Time Keeping Best Practices KB’s. The new timekeeping articles are: 1006427 Timekeeping best practices for Linux 1007020 Linux using TSC clocksource stops responding 1008284 Time falls behind in a virtual machine when the guest operating system writes to previously unwritten regions of its virtual disk 1005861 Time falls behind in virtual
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VI3 Network Troubleshooting Guide
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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Not At VMWorld Europe 2009
Just fair warning, that we’ll still be on normal programming whilst this is going on. Which I figure is a good thing. There will be plenty of news coming out from the event, I don’t want to over saturate.
Where Did I Put My Tools? Are They In Sync? – Checking the VMware Tools with PowerShell
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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VCP’s Rock!
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?
What VLAN is that VM On? Ask PowerShell!
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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About Page Updated – Now With Pictures!
Really, I updated the about page to include a picture, see: Dead sexxy for a Virtualization Guru I’d say.
Who is Using Thinapp?
Basically, just what the title says, who is using it, what for, and is there an interest in posts or a forum around it? Post in the comments your thoughts.