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November 11, 2008 • 1 min read • Best Practices

Don’t enable root access for SSH

I came across some scripts to run on your ESX server after it has been installed. These script did some stuff like disabling firewall and enabling…

November 10, 2008 • 2 min read • Powershell

VMware and PowerShell

I'm from the pre-WIMP era, like in pre Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointers. There wasn't anything like a graphical user interface. Even when they…

November 9, 2008 • 1 min read • Best Practices

Tip: Create an ISO store, no matter what

In one of our previous projects we suggested a LUN to use for ISO's. The client said: 'Well, we don't need one, we have all our software on network…

November 5, 2008 • 2 min read • VMGuru

Unable to VMotion, unable to disconnect ISO

We had a small issue today with a virtual machine at one of our customer sites. We were unable to do a VMotion. The message we got was that there…

October 31, 2008 • 3 min read • VMGuru

Virtualization is to blame

Virtualization is hot! A lot of companies are already virtualized or in the middle of a migration. The physical platform gets replaced by a virtual…

October 30, 2008 • 2 min read • VMGuru

What if life was a virtual machine..

I spend a lot of hours in traffic jams lately. It's really driving me nuts. All those break lights, slow moving cars.. Man, your mind starts to…

October 29, 2008 • 3 min read • Troubleshooting

VC Upgrade went haywire

Yesterday was a fun day. What looked like a simple, clean upgrade became something more interesting. After making a before snapshot I started the…
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