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Quick and Dirty HTTP Based Deployment
A lot of the scripted installation tools that VMware offers allows the usage of a central HTTP based repository for hosting the files. Today I stumbled over a little gem that might just help you create a “quick and dirty” HTTP based deplo...
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Tagged automation, Deployment, fun, http, Python, realworld, vMA, VMware, vSphere
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Quick and Dirty ESXi 5.1U1 Upgrade
Now that VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 1 has been released I decided to do a quick and dirty upgrade of my home installation. I refuse to call it a lab these days, since it´s one singular host and all it does it contain my home domain controller… Any...
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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Backing up vCenter DB with Veeam B&R 6.5
It´s a well known problem that with Veeam Backup & Recovery Replication 6.5, and earlier, backing up the SQL server that hosts the vCenter DB poses a problem. KB1051 VSS for vCenter outlines the issue well, and provides a workaround. If you ex...
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Tagged automation, Backup, Ops, realworld, vCenter, Veeam, VMware, vSphere, workaround
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Preserve your Veeam B&R Backups Jobs when Moving vCenter
This week I´m working at a client site, upgrading their entire existing vSphere 4.1 infrastructure to vSphere 5.1. The customer engagement also includes upgrading Veeam Backup and Replication 6.0 to 6.5, and usually an isolated upgrade of Veeam B&am...
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Tagged Ops, vCenter, Veeam, Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware, vSphere, workaround
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Autolab goes Cloudy with a Chance of Free Credits
Autolab, that awesome “little” thing that automagically builds a nested vSphere Lab environment for you, was definitely not put together by Flint Lockwood but by Alastair Cooke (www.demitasse.co.nz). Unlike Flint´s inventions, this on...
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Tagged Alastair Cooke, Autolab, Cloud, Freebie, fun, Lab, Mike Laverick, VMware, vSphere
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Trainsignal: Training as a Service (TaaS)
Trainsignal has just launched a new Online Training bundle, and for $49 a month you can get unlimited access to their entire set of training courses and practice exams for Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Citrix, CompTIA, and VMware. The new pricing is very ...
New Fling from VMware Labs: Makyo
VMware Labs has released a new fling called Makyo (魔境 makyō means “ghost cave” or “devil’s cave.”) which basically is a tool to copy VMs or vApps from one vCenter instance to another. It works by doing an automated OVF export on the ...
Unsupported Network Configurations in Virtual Appliances
My recent experience with setting up vCenter Operations Manager on a standalone ESXi host, and the always excellent William Lam´s post Automating VCSA Network Configurations For Greenfield Deployments got me thinking. There are several other appli...
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Tagged fun, labs, Linux, SUSE, Unsupported, Virtual Appliance, VMware, vSphere
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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...