Monthly Archives: September 2011

Moving On

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Christian Mohn

if ((Get-date) -gt (Get-date 2012-01-01))     {Get-VM h0bbel |       Move-VM -Datastore newEmployer -RunAsync      } More details later. Christian Mohn...

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Network Simulation in VMware Workstation 8

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Christian Mohn

In the new VMware Workstation 8 release, VMware has added a rudimentary network simulation setting where you can tweak bandwidth and packet loss for a given network card. Very useful when testing applications and servers and want to know how they rea...

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Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in VMware Workstation 8

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Christian Mohn

Installing Microsoft Windows 8 in a VMware Workstation 8 VM turned out to be a real piece of cake. Follow the screenshots for the procedure I used, but basically all I did was to create a new VM with the pre-configured “Windows 8 Server” ...

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Backup Academy – Do You Know Your VM backups?

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Christian Mohn

The newly opened Backup Academy, by Veeam, aims to educate administrators, and others interested in virtual machine backup, in the required skills to maintain a proper backup strategy for your virtual infrastructure. Currently the site has 8 videos a...

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VMware Workstation 8 – What’s new?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Christian Mohn

VMware is close (still in beta) to releasing the new major release of VMware Workstation. Update 14. September 2011: VMware Workstation 8 has now officially been released. VMware Workstation 8 brings a lot of new features and enhancements to the tabl...

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