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Missing VMDK?
Some how in my late night troubleshooting, I managed to delete the virtual disk (vmdk) file associated with one of my VMs. I was greeted with a very unpleasant error message attempting to power...
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Remove unwanted/old connections from vSphere Client
If you’re like me, you connect to many different environments at customer sites and your vSphere Client drop-down get’s fairly extensive and cluttered with the old connections you will no longer use....
View ArticleWhen good NICs go bad!!
My team was deploying a new SharePoint portal for a customer and were seeing some strange behavior from some of our VMs. Our environment consisted of 3 BL685 servers running ESX and 9 VMs ( I know...
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Greatest VMware Video!!
I can watch this video over and over (I know.. I’m sick).. Who could of imagined that someone could create a music video about VMware virtualization. I guess they had to many late nights and redbull....
View ArticleVMware Document Downloader
Paul Buckle over at xtravirt has created a very useful batch file for downloading all the VMware documentation. This makes a really handy offline reference library especially if you need the...
View ArticleDRS Deep Dive
Duncan Epping over at Yellow Bricks has posted a great article explaining the inner-workings of VMware DRS. Like he states in his article, I have never had to trouble shoot any DRS issues and have...
View ArticleThe Virtualization Paradigm and the transition to normalcy
I have been working in the application consultancy for quite some time and it is hard to remember the last architecture or implementation I have done that has not included VMware. For many of my...
View ArticleFree VKernel Capacity Modeler Download
VKernel is offering perpetual license for their Capacity Modeler from now through the end of the year. I have not had time to take a look at the product, the price is definitely right to add to...
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Quickly deploy test environment in VMware Workstation
Whether I am looking to test out a new capability or solution, or simply grabbing screenshots for documentation, I almost always turn to VMware Workstation in order to quickly and easily deploy a...
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Attaching Local Storage as a RDM
Let me start off by stating that this is NOT supported….. I wanted to attach a local drive to a VM, but wanted the ability to move this drive to a physical Windows server at a later time without the...
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