March, 2009
VI Toolkit Lab @ VMWorld
Whilst at VMWorld I managed to sit in on the very popular VI toolkit Lab, this was one of around 10 labs which were running during the day and people could go up and run through some testing on a pre-built lab environment all for themselves. This gives people a great opportunity to play and [...]
UK VM User Group – London
Don’t forget that next Tuesday (10th March 2009) will be the next UK London VMware User Group . This meeting will be sponsored by Veeam Software. The meeting will be held at the following location: The Thames Suite, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP, +44 (0)20 7248 4444. The [...]
Setting MMU for your VMs
I was asked by my friend Duncan if it was easy enough to set the Memory Management Unit (MMU) for each of his VM’s. Read his post here for more information on what he was working on. He was about to set this by hand for 50+ VM’s which would take a while, so [...]
VMTN: Ask The Experts – How did it Go ?
I wanted to say thanks to everyone that came to see us at VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes, and especially the people who asked me some questions. After a slow start to the first day it picked up and we had a fair few visits from people the second day. I especially want to thank [...]
The VESI is on its way
Whilst at VMworld Europe 2009 I managed to get a sneak preview of the VESI, if you are unsure what this is then please check my previous post here. Judging by the interest of the Vizioncore stand and the fact that Scott Herold was looking rather tired at the end of each day I am [...]
Scripted Install and Configuration of Dell OpenManage Client
I have installed a fair few Dell Open manage client’s on our ESX hosts to give us the nice hardware monitoring of the Dell Open Manage software, I have just found an easier way to install it here at the Dell Tech center. This script will install and configure the OMSA agent on VMware [...]
The Frenchman in Cannes
In one of the VMTN Round table podcasts I was mistakenly taken for a Frenchman as my last name is Renouf and I guess this sounds French to the Americans, whilst I haven’t found a way to re-pay John Troyer for this mistake yet I certainly will. It would seem that at VMworld I was [...]
VI Toolkit voted Number 1
In a recent VMTN Round table podcast we were asked what our predictions would be for 2009, mine was “Automation of VMware Products”, after visiting VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes it would seam that my prediction was coming true. Whilst there I attended ‘TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell’ presented by Carter Shanklin (VI Toolkit [...]
