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vExpert 2013 list released
The 2013 vExpert list was released today and I managed to make the list due to my blogging and community contributions last year. “The judges selected people who were particularly engaged with their community and who had developed a substantial … Continue reading
Free Official VMware training
http://vmwarelearning.com launched some time back, but the seminars offered keep improving and there are now over 100 videos offered (that number includes localizations however). Products covered include: vSphere 5.1 (8 videos) (why vSphere has a 5.0 and a 5.1 category … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged free training, vcloud, vmware, vSphere 1 Comment
vCloud Suite quirks in a demo build
I was building a nested demo environment for vCloud Director 5.1 / vSphere 5.1 and noticed a few quirks that affected how I spec’d my hosts. I deployed vCD on RedHat, a vCenter VM, and an ESXi 5.1 host. I … Continue reading
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vCenter Chargeback demo database creation and gotchas
If you read the Chargeback 2.5 documentation you’ll notice you have to create a database first – but doesn’t give you a script (see below). Once created you’re asked to create a new role and assign the chargeback database owner … Continue reading
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vCloud Director and guest customization
Guest customization (specifically Windows 2003) is done a little differently in vCloud Director. While you still create a properly-named directory tree containing the sysprep files, you then run a script that combines all of the Windows sysprep files into one … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged "vmware cloud director", #cloud, microsoft, sysprep, vcd, vcloud, vmware Leave a comment
Un-Auto-Deployed-ed
I had a system this week that was having issues with AutoDeploy, so I decided to uninstall and reinstall it. Uninstall went fine but the reinstall gave me a “The service is already registered with specified vCenter Server” message. … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Computing, Virtualization, VMware Tagged Autodeploy, ESXi, vmware, vSphere 2 Comments
Vote for Ugly!!
Some of the VMWorld 2012 sessions are chosen from the general public of VMware administrators and evangelists world-wide. One of my former coworkers has submitted a proposal for a session covering View Persona, calling it “2776 Viewing Ugly Personas” Abstract:If you … Continue reading
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Where oh where did that little vCSA go?
The VMware vSphere vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) is a niflty little management option available with all kits and editions of vSphere, letting you manage your environment with almost* all the bells and whistles without needing a separate Windows license. Sounds … Continue reading
VMWorld 2012 Registration
Registration has opened for the 2012 editions of the biggest cloud event of the year outside of the NWA meeting. For the US it’s back and the Moscone Center in SF and VCP in Europe will be vMotioning to Barcelona … Continue reading
vNoob for President!
http://www.vnoob.com/2012/01/ C-Rad vs Josh Atwell for the title! Vote early, vote often.
