Category: Virtualization

Posted on July 13, 2011 by | 8 Comments
July 12th VMware officially announced vSphere 5 and all of its awesome new features. One of these “features” is called vRam Entitlements. Basically what this “feature” does is limit the amount of physical RAM that you can put in your…
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Posted on July 11, 2011 by | 0 Comments
VMware and its’ partners offer a really cool service to customers called a Health Check. Basically, a Health Check Report is a listing of all of the VMware Best practices… compared to your cluster. It gives you an idea of…
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Posted on July 8, 2011 by | 5 Comments
Update: This script was intended for vSphere 4 and had a bunch of limitations. For a newer version with more functionality check out FixingITpro.com. PowerCLI, and Powershell in general, are two things I don’t do much with. I’ve used it…
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Posted on June 22, 2011 by | 0 Comments
Monday I was working on a customer’s system and showing them all the nice features of VMware, I also showed them Update Manager and tried to update their Hosts… and of course like any unplanned demo… it failed. I figured…
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Posted on May 26, 2011 by | 3 Comments
Update: I’m officially VCA410-DT # 106 This morning I sat for the new VMware View related exam VMware Certified Associate – Desktop. I didn’t get to do much studying but figured since I was going to be at the testing…
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Posted on April 14, 2011 by | 1 Comment
Since I started blogging (almost 1 year ago) my labs have changed quite a bit, so I thought I would go through what is in the lab these days. First off, I maintain two virtualization labs, one is right beside…
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Posted on April 13, 2011 by | 0 Comments
Over the weekend I was reading some articles on SearchServerVirtualization.com and noticed one about possible vSphere 5 details being leaked. While I don’t encourage anyone with privileged information to violate the NDA they signed… it is always fun to get…
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