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January 6, 2009 • 1 min read • Powershell

Searching for a VM

One of the problems that most people have with virtualizing vCenter is that they don’t know where the vCenter VM is when there are problems. There’s…

January 9, 2009 • 6 min read • Best Practices

vCenter physical or virtual?

Still a lot of people hesitate to make vCenter (was VirtualCenter) virtual. They have a lot of reasons for that. Let me sum up the most common…

January 14, 2009 • 1 min read • VMGuru

Browsing through your VC database like a drive

Yesterday I was browsing through the PowerShell scripts posted in the VI Toolkit community on the VMware site. One of the scripts I immediately…

January 20, 2009 • 2 min read • Powershell

More PowerShell stuff

Last year I started to write a small program in Perl to document the virtual infrastructures we encounter at client locations. But since it's all…

January 27, 2009 • 1 min read • VMGuru

Do you Poken?

It looks like this is going to be THE new thing this year. Almost every has a Facebook account, LinkedIn network or some other form of social…

February 12, 2009 • 2 min read • VMGuru

Clean up before a P2V

Yesterday I made one of the mistakes I always warn my collegues about. I always tell them: "Make sure you know the situation before you change…

February 23, 2009 • 3 min read • Automation

VMworld Europe 2009: vCenter Management Suite

Today at VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes VMware introduced their strategy for the coming years. VMware combines Chargeback, CapacityIQ, Orchestrator…

February 24, 2009 • 2 min read • VMGuru

VMworld Europe 2009 – Cisco Nexus 1000v hands-on lab

Today we did our first Hands-on-Lab. Last year these labs were fully booked so we decided to hit the lab early this year. This lab was based around…

February 24, 2009 • 3 min read • VMGuru

VMworld Europe 2009 – Keynote day 1

Maritzio Carli, GM for EMEA, opened the keynote today. He gave a lot of figures to reflect the grow in virtualization despite the hard economic…
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