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Thursday, October 20th, 2016
Like many of you who didn't make it to either VMworld conferences, I followed things online avidly. Some great things are coming for our beloved hypervisor! I won't rehash what's already been posted all over the place, but here's a quick link to the information:
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/introducing-vsphere-6-5.html
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/whats-new-in-vsphere-6-5-vcenter-server.html
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Monday, October 17th, 2016
Once I loaded the UCS image in VUM, it's a piece of cake to deploy and update the hosts.
But...
I had one site with 2 hosts running on IBM x3650 servers, so I downloaded the Lenovo image for this platform and loaded it up in VUM. Start the deployment, and the ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2016
Last weekend I completed an upgrade/migration from vCenter 5.5 on Windows to vCenter Appliance 6.0 using the tool provided by VMware.
Everything went fairly smoothly - the migration tool was flawless. I made sure to take care of all the dependencies (vShield, vCOps, 3rd party plugins) first, upgrading them to a ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2016
A few months ago, I was looking for an SMTP solution for a dev team so they could test sending mail without using the production email service. I thought of using a container solution for this and found exactly what I needed with Docker.
Now, what platform would be the best ...
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2015
I won't call them best practices because these are my personal preferences/standards. I am posting this as I had a conversation with a junior sysadmin earlier about this. Figured it could come in handy for others looking for ideas on how to approach this!
When creating a VM for a Windows ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2015
I didn't take the exam yet but here's some tips to help with command line stuff.
In an SSH session on a host, type in "esxcli esxcli command list" and paste the output to Notepad. A quick CTRL-F for keywords will help you find/remember the right commands. (I really hope notepad ...
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Saturday, April 11th, 2015
VMware vSphere ESXi will determine whether or not to use hardware virtualization support based on various factors such as the guest operating system type and the physical hardware. Certain workloads can benefit from explicitly turning hardware virtualization support on or off. If the value is unset, the value will default ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
And here is the follow up script for the pre-prod environment. This script can be scheduled to run daily to provide a fresh pre-production or test environment when your team arrives in the office.
#=============================================================================
# Script : Pre-Production environment refresh
# Author ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
My current employer has a pre-production environment that is being refreshed nightly from production using a PowerCLI script. I started looking into it, to better understand the inner workings and to see if I could improve things. The objective is to have a pre-production environment that is an identical copy of ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2014
Well, I was planning on taking the exam in september but life events prevented me from reaching that goal. I had to undergo surgery twice for a detached retina in my right eye, with bedrest and impaired vision, I haven't been much in a study mood. I also recently changed job, leaving ...
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