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VMware + Powershell = Amazing
I have already installed it and used it many times to gather stats and export them straight to Excel but here is a nice beginners guide on how to get started…. Mike Laverick released another RTFM white paper. This one helps you to get up and running with VMware's new PowerShell Toolkit – without having [...]
VMotion Info straight from the source
Arne Fokkema over at ICT-Freak has written a nice little “how to“. His post shows all the steps to take so you can get all the historic VMotion info and present it in an Excel sheet. The data is extracted directly from the Virtual Center database and can be updated any time.
New Netmon
Network Monitor 3.2 Beta is available! We are our proud and excited to announce the release of NM3.2 Beta, available at http://connect.microsoft.com. Please visit the Network Monitor Project on Microsoft Connect and download the Network Monitor 3.2 Beta. You can also view the FAQ from the home page for more information about the latest version. [...]
VMware Prepares for Hyper-V
Very interesting read: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Apps/VMware-Prepares-for-HyperV/
Customisation no longer working after VC 2.5 Upgrade ?
If you have a problem customising a Windows 2003 Server template when deploying after upgrading to Virtual Center 2.5 then follow these steps: To fix this you need to download the new sysprep files Extract them on your VirtualCenter server and placed in the following folder: %SYSTEMDRIVE%\All Users\Application Data\Vmware\VirtualCenter\sysprep\svr2003 Once extracted the template should now [...]
Freeware: Check the Security of your ESX servers and Virtual Machines
Tripwire ConfigCheck is a lightweight version of Tripwire Enterprise For VMware ESX Server a security and compliance-checking application designed to evaluate large server installations. Tripwire ConfigCheck is designed to sift through the hundreds of configuration settings within VMware’s ESX Server and identify those that are not set according to VMware’s recommendations. The new tool also [...]
Decrease login time for TS/Citrix servers
An interesting article which may help decrease the login time for your TS/Citrix session…. http://www.brianmadden.com/blog/GabeKnuth/BriForum-Video—Decreasing-Windows-Login-Time
Tips: Citrix PS 4 on VMware
Found this article on another blog, its very usefull for deploying citrix on vmware, I have performed most of these in the past so can vouch for this, the tuning list is from personal experience the blog and the experience of several users on the VMware forum. Needed: Virtual Infrastructure 3 (Latest Version) Windows 2003 [...]
Can I have one please OLPC XO-2
Take a look at this blog, it’s a combination of a laptop, e-ink and a Nintendo DS. All I can say is, send me a prototype and I’ll be happy to test it and write a review.
Install ESX from a USB drive
Recently I needed to install multiple ESX servers by CD, the CD’s kept getting lost and scratched, I wondered if there was a way to install from USB, surely this would be faster too. I looked through the forums and found a couple of people that had managed it, I have amended there instructions slightly [...]
