Get it Done Better Than Anyone Else
This morning I went to a fundraising breakfast for the Tidewater Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The head
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Datastore Clustering vBrownBag
Wednesday night, March 14th, I did a presentation on Datastore Clustering and Storage DRS for the ProfessionalVMware.com vBrownBag Storage Month
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Why not make all seven physical uplinks active? Allocating resources in a virtual environment.
I am teaching a VMware Manage for Performance class at TCC. During this week’s class we had a great discussion (OK there was a little bit of soap box preaching involved also) on resource allocation in a virtual environment. The discussion started from a question that was asked based on the resolution to a network performance lab scenario.
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Configuring Virtual Machine vmware.log File Rotation
The vmware.log file contains virtual machine specific logging and is stored with the virtual machine configuration files (.vmx). By default the vmware.log file is only rotated when a virtual machine is restarted and 6 logs are kept (the current log plus 5 old logs).
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VMware PowerCLI 5 Reference iPad/iPhone App
Free iPad/iPhone/iPod app for referencing the VMware vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets. vSphere PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and is used for managing and automating vSphere.
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Configuring Advance HA Settings with PowerCLI
In the TCC lab (and in many production environments) the default gateway filters ICMP packets. In order for HA to
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PowerCLI Class References and Resources
I am currently teaching the VMware vSphere: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI [V4.x] as part of the VMware IT Academy program
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Morning vHealth Email From vSphere Health Check Report Script
The VMware vSphere Health Check Report is a free script written by @lamw (Check out his site virtuallyGhetto for some
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Resource Monitoring – vPanorama: Get the Big Picture (for FREE!)
Resource Monitoring – vPanorama: Get the Big Picture (for FREE!) Last week (or it may have been the week before) Jason Boche tweeted a question “Have you seen vpanorama.com?” Nope I had not, I had not even heard of it, so I checked out the site, downloaded the appliance, and spun it up in my lab.
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OK so I had an issue with some comment spam and ended up with a little over 30,000 comments between my unapproved, spam, and trash in my Wordpress comments – FTW! Would have taken me a week to move them all to trash and then delete them.
Read MorePowerCLI Script to Shutdown My Home Lab
Ran across a PowerCLI script that can be used to shutdown your virtual infrastructure written by Alan Renouf and thought
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