Building the ESXi Boot Drive.
With my new lab being built out for VMware vSphere 4.1, I took the opportunity to make the jump over to ESXi from ESX. The unconfirmed rumor is…
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rant: The Path of Least Resistance
My first post of 2011 is related to something that is frankly, far from Twenty-Eleven cutting edge. It was a pretty UNIQUE error I ran into at a…
2010 – A Look Back
So the end of the year is coming up quick so I figured I would start on the obligatory year-end review. A chance to look back at the…
Don’t be so eager to use ALL the products you own.
VMware vSphere with Citrix XenDesktop leveraging Citrix Provisioning Services. It’s a familiar solution in my world these days and it works well. I’ve grown accustomed to the convenience…
Are your VMware, Citrix and AD teams talking? They should be.
So here are some quick lessons I learned recently in some of the Citrix Provisioning XenDesktop vSphere environments I have been working in. The typical solution consists of…
Dude, Where’s My VM? I have no Idea. :(
Recently got an email from a friend who had (not by his doing) stepped into an environment where Virtual Machines had literally sprung up across various WorkStation installations. …
Upgrading VMware AppSpeed 1.2 to 1.5
With the new version of AppSpeed released, I downloaded the ISO and proceeded with the upgrade. Here’s a quick rundown of the activities for those attempting the upgrade.…
VMware SRM: VMs recover with Offline RMD Volumes.
Jeff Miller sent over this handy write up involving VMware’s Site Recovery Manager and Windows 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 (enterprise and datacenter) has introduced a new default…
Not at VMworld? You can Follow along at Home. (Sort of).
VMworld 2010 is currently underway in San Francisco this week. If you are like me and chose not to attend (or had no choice in the matter at…