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Automating your vSphere Demo environment with a vmrun batch file

Posted on August 14, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

I was tasked to build a reusable, portable vSphere 5 lab to mimic a production environment. The idea was to use it as a repeatable demo customers can interact with. I built the environment on my 2-year old Lenovo W510 … Continue reading →

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Demo virtual Equallogic PS6000 array available

Posted on January 14, 2012 by josh@sostechblog.com

If you’re a Dell/Equallogic partner you can finally have access to a software version of a PS6000 iSCSI array. This has been available internally at Dell since at least 2009 (the date of the included documentation) but it’s release to … Continue reading →

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Building a VMware test environment

Posted on June 13, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

…just got easier as Microsoft has released their iSCSI software target as a free download. It’s been included with Storage Server, but now you can download it for any Windows 2008 R2 server (like the one you built in your … Continue reading →

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