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Adding a secondary NIC to the vCenter 5.1 Appliance (VCSA)
While building my lab environment, I ran into a situation where I wanted to have a completely sealed off networking segment that had no outside access. This is a trivial task on it`s own, just create a vSwitch with no physical NICs attached to it, an...
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Tagged ESXi, Hack, Networking, vCenter, VCSA, Virtualization, vSphere
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Brilliant idea: VMware Hosted Beta
Duncan Epping rather unceremoniously published a blog post “New Beta Program offering: VMware Hosted Beta” yesterday, outlining the availability of the new hosted beta offering that companions some of the current VMware beta programs. Due...
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Tagged Beta, Hands-on Labs, HoL, Hosted Beta, labs, Virtualization, VMware
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Purging the vCenter Operations Manager 5.x Database
A client of mine recently had their vCenter 5.0 appliance replaced with a new vCenter 5.1 appliance, something vCenter Operations Manager did not enjoy. In this case the original vCenter 5.0 Appliance was turned shut down, a new 5.1 Appliance deploye...
vCenter Operations Manager and vCenter Deployment Dependency
In order to be able to deploy vCenter Operations Manager, the ESXi host it is deployed to needs to be managed by a vCenter. At first glance, that seems like a fair and pretty straight forward requirement, right? But, is it? While I can see the need f...
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Tagged vCenter, vCenter Operations Manager, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere, workaround
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Dell (VKernel) vOPS Server Explorer 6.3 Released
Yesterday fellow vExpert Mattias Sundling gave me a little pre-release briefing of the new Dell/VKernel vOPS Server Explorer 6.3 release. While I don´t normally do press release posts like these, I´m willing to make an exception in this case. Not o...
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Tagged Dell, Free Tool, Monitoring, Release, Virtualization, VKernel, vOPS
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Exporting vCenter Events with PowerCLI
One of my clients has recently been having issues with their storage solution, and wanted to export the events from vCenter that show storage performance degradation, to aid in troubleshooting with the vendor. For some reason, and I have yet to confi...
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Tagged automation, ESXi, Oneliner, PowerCLI, Powershell, realworld, vCenter, Virtualization, vSphere, vSphere 5, vSphere Client
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vSphere Web or Desktop Client – Who´s Your Daddy?
At the moment, VMware vSphere offers two different management clients, the vSphere Web Client and the vSphere Desktop Client. The feature comparison table looks like this: (Copied from “Which vSphere client should I use and when?“) vSpher...
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Tagged management, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere, vSphere 5, Web Client
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Shanghai… we have a problem…
My Saturday morning started the same as any other. I checked my emails and my tweets, started a coffee, walked my dog and got into the shower. My iPhone buzzing on the sink caught my attention a few minutes into it. Covered in soap and the rest c...
Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View Book Available
Mike Laverick and Barry Coombs has released their new book, elegantly titled “Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View“. Not only is this a great book, it is something that every existing and potential VMware View (and relat...
Posted in Book, Virtualization
Tagged Book, EUC, Horizon, ThinApp, View, Virtualization, VMware, VMware View
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Vote for the Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs
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