Monthly Archives: March 2011

vSoup Episode #7 and VMware Podcast Directory

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Christian Mohn

vSoup Episode #7 “Everything is better with Bacon” is now available for your listening “pleasure”. With Sean Clark as our guest, we get into quite a few topics like storage and SQL virtualization. Be sure to check it out! In r...

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vNinja.net available also on vNinja.com

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Christian Mohn

Thanks to the generosity of Todd Wright vNinja.net is now also available via vNinja.com. Todd came out of nowhere and offered to redirect his vNinja.com domain to vNinja.net, since he didn’t have time to do anything with it himself. I’m v...

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Installing and configuring VMware vCenter Operations

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Christian Mohn

VMware vCenter Operations was released to the general public a week or so ago and is available for download right now. As usual you can download a 60 day trial, and get started immediately. Like other recent management utilities from VMware, vCenter ...

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vSphere iPad Client

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Christian Mohn

Like everyone else in the vUniverse, I’ve had a play with the very recently released free vSphere Client for iPad. Since everyone, and their mother, has already blogged and reviewed it I don’t see much value in me doing the same. What I c...

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Custom Dictionary Syncronization with Dropbox

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Christian Mohn

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been using Microsoft Word 2010 a lot more than I’ve previously done, and at the same time I’ve been switching computers a lot making it somewhat of an annoyance that a lot of the words I use in my do...

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Using rsync to Distribute Patches to a Remote vMA

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Christian Mohn

I recently posted Using vMA as a local vSphere Patch Repository, where I outlined how you can use your vMA instances as local file repositories for updates. This post is a continuation of that concept, but this time I’ll take it a step further ...

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Using vMA as a local vSphere Patch Repository

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Christian Mohn

I like using http as the transport protocol when patching my vSphere hosts. It’s easy to use and in most cases immediately available over most networks. Since I want to use http as the transport, we need to make vMA work as a http server. Start...

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Installing vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Christian Mohn

The vMA is a Virtual Appliance that you can download from VMware. It’s primary function is to enable command line based management of your ESX/ESXi systems. Basically this is a pre-packaged virtual machine that  includes vCLI and the vSphere S...

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