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vSphere 4.1 is released
#vmware #vSphere Joe tweeted this link ( http://twitter.com/joewells/status/18435437921 ) and I wanted to share it further: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/vsphere-41-is-released.html As well as this: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/changes-to-vcp-exam-due-to-vsphere-41.htm Read More...
Posted: 13 July 2010 22:17 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Check this out a #vmware custom quote tool
This is quite funky, up on VMsecured.com they have created a quote tool for VMware software! http://www.vmsecured.com/ Read More...
Posted: 08 July 2010 08:08 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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#vmware vSphere PowerCLI Commandlet Poster
#Powershell Funky  … http://d3planet.com/rtfb/2009/10/06/vsphere-powercli-commandlet-poster/ Pablo Roesch , VMware, has put out a poster that their marketing department did, that has a listing of the PowerCLI commandlets.  This is a very useful Read More...
Posted: 13 April 2010 14:27 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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#Hyper-V Training – Day 4
The last day, and the sun is shining outside which is always a plus.  So lessons learnt for the day … If your Hyper-V server is in a workgroup and SCVMM is part of a domain, you need to do an agent install and treat it as if it’s in a perimeter network Read More...
Posted: 01 April 2010 14:53 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Hyper-V Training – Day 3
#Hyper-V So its Wednesday and day 3 … today was more SCVMM Just great, Windows Update bounced my laptop and lost this post .. Greeaaaat. So let me try and remember .. Oh, what is cool is that you can create a Windows 2008 Failover cluster.  You can Read More...
Posted: 31 March 2010 16:09 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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#Hyper-V Training – Day 2
Another day and some more learning.  So my ramblings from today are: Have a server, take a snapshot and install an SP ..test it and then is okay, merge the snapshot.  If not, remove the snapshot and you back. Nothing else really shone out, so Read More...
Posted: 30 March 2010 18:14 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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#Hyper-V Training – Day 1
I am on a Hyper-V Training course for the rest of this week at QA in London and wanted to share some “stuff” that came up today with you all. The course combines 6331A Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager [3 Day Course] Read More...
Posted: 29 March 2010 15:57 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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VMotion and #Exchange 2010, not supported
#Exchange2010 Source: http://kennethvanditmarsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/vmotion-and-exchange-2010/ Now this is very very interesting and may explain why my DAG databases keep failing over.. … vSphere Update 1 states: Enhanced Clustering Support for Read More...
Posted: 17 January 2010 00:18 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Disk2vhd v1.4
How funky is this Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-nz/sysinternals/ee656415%28en-us%29.aspx Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual Read More...
Posted: 15 December 2009 09:33 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Problems upgrading #VMWare ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1
This is a bit scary Source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016070 When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1 (U1), you may experience these symptoms: Upgrade operation Read More...
Posted: 07 December 2009 14:49 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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#VMware #ESX 4.0 Update 1 and VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1
Thanks Virtual Commander for the links: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_u1_vc40_u1.html -and- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/11/20/vsphere-esxvcenter-4-0-update-1/ What's new? The following information provides highlights Read More...
Posted: 20 November 2009 13:58 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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VMware vSphere 4: Exchange Server on NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel
Thanks to Ash for pointing me at this: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_perf_exchange-storage-protocols.pdf Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a storage intensive workload used by a large number of IT organizations to provide email for their users. Read More...
Posted: 25 August 2009 10:14 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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VMware ESX, Windows 2008 and a sluggish mouse
You know how on a Windows 2003 server, when you install it on ESX, and you put the tools on, you get the annoying prompt to set Hardware acceleration to Full. Well when you install Windows 2008, you don't get that prompt and the mouse is really sluggish. Read More...
Posted: 06 August 2009 18:31 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Moving from VMWare Server to Hyper-V
How hard do you think this would be?  well damm hard in fact.  So here is the deal.  I have a Mac Pro running Windows 2008 and VMWare Server.  I had an issue with my graphics card, so I moved my VMWare stuff to Tosh Laptop. So my graphics Read More...
Posted: 08 June 2009 11:08 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Hyper-V, SCVMM and Windows 2008
this is kinda interesting, migrated from a VmWare Server Proof of Concept to Hyper-V (by rebuild it from scratch). As part of this we used System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates. So everything is going fine, but since the tail end of Read More...
Posted: 11 March 2009 08:11 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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