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My VMware vSphere Home lab configuration
I have always enjoyed running my own home lab for testing and playing around with the latest software and operating systems / hypervisors. Up until recently, it was all hosted on VMware Workstation 8.0...
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Distributed Virtual Switch 5.1 Health Check for VLAN configuration issues
With the announcement of vSphere 5.1, one of the new features announced was the network health check feature now available for Distributed Virtual Switches (version 5.1 of the switch). This area has...
View ArticleEnhanced vMotion / X-vMotion / shared nothing vMotion live demo [video]
I was looking for a live video demonstration of the new and improved vMotion in vSphere 5.1 the other day but could not come across one at the time. I therefore decided to get it set up in my lab and...
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PowerCLI – script to deploy multiple random VMs
There are probably tons of scripts out there to deploy VMs in a vSphere environment, but I was in the mood for scripting this evening and decided to create my own PowerCLI script to automatically...
View ArticleESXi 5 Host Backup & Restore GUI Utility updated to 1.1
This little host backup utility I created back in February 2012 has been receiving quite a bit of attention, and has already managed to get over 2000 downloads. Someone recently asked the other day...
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UK VMUG, November 2012
The time is almost upon us – the UK VMUG is coming up this week. It will again be held at the National Motorcycle Museum in the West Midlands this Thursday, the 15th November. There is an exciting...
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UK VMware User Group (UKVMUG)
Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend the UKVMUG, hosted at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham. Wednesday (14/11/2012) Travelling up early Wednesday evening, I made it to...
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vExpert spotlight
The vExpert title is given out to those who have provided a significant contribution to the VMware community over the previous year. Individuals lucky enough to be awarded this title may receive it...
View ArticleUsing plink to modify ESXi host configuration files via SSH from a PowerCLI...
I am a big advocate of automation and saving time with a good script. Whenever I can find a task that is fairly lengthy, and is likely to be repeated in future, I always consider scripting it. There...
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Writing files to an NTFS volume in OSX using VMware Fusion
This is more of a quick tip than the usual full blog posts I do, but a useful one none the less (at least for me). By default when you plug an NTFS (Windows) volume into an Apple Mac, you are able to...
View ArticleESXi Host Backup & Restore GUI Utility (PowerCLI based) updated to 1.2
A quick post today to just mention that I have updated my ESXi 5.0 / 5.1 Host Backup & Restore GUI utility to version 1.2. There are a couple of improvements in 1.2 based on feedback received in...
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vMetrics for WordPress blogs updated to version 1.1
I spent a little bit of time updating my vMetrics plugin for WordPress blogs. To give you a brief run-down, vMetrics allows you to display information from your VMware vCenter Cluster or ESX hosts /...
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Troubleshooting the Autolab vCloud Director 1.5.1 installation
I have had this issue twice now, where deploying vCD via the Autolab PXE boot option on the vCD VM fails. As far as I can tell, the process seems to fail on the Oracle Express DB installation, due to...
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Setting up vCenter 5.0.x Inventory Service wrapper.log rotation
I noticed a trend recently on one of our vCenter servers where the disk space on the C:\ drive kept running low. The OS being run is Windows Server 2008 R2. Eventually if the disk fills up, the vCenter...
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A function to lookup Host System friendly name by MoRef using PowerCLI
In a recent blog post, I showed a simple method of outputting a list of hosts with their friendly names, as well as their MoRef (Managed Object Reference) names alongside eachother, enabling you to...
View ArticleAnother update! ESXi Host Backup & Restore GUI Utility (PowerCLI based)...
The other weekend I managed to get some spare time to do another update to my ESXi 5.0 / 5.1 Host Backup & Restore GUI utility, this time it has been updated to version 1.3. I didn’t post up the...
View ArticleCloud Credibility challenges – blogging about my team members
So there is a fun website called “CloudCred” that allows individuals or teams to participate in various tasks and challenges – everything from technical challenges to social and fun are covered and it...
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The vExpert 2013 applications are now open – apply now
Applications are now open here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2013/03/vexpert-2013-applications-are-now-open.html The vExpert 2013 applications are now open. This is a great group to be a part of,...
View ArticleGetting and Setting Path Selection Policies with PowerCLI
A colleague I work with was looking for a script that would list all disk devices on ESXi hosts that were not set to Round Robin. After this, he wanted to be able to set all of these to the Round Robin...
View ArticlevPi – a Raspberry Pi for VMware presentation on vBrownBag EMEA
Last week I hosted a session talking about vPi. vPi is an image for the Raspberry Pi based on Raspbian, specifically targeted at VMware integration. Many great things can be done with this solution,...
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