Out of clutter, find simplicity
Snow Leopard and Mac OS X Lion both have built in support for Exchange 2007 and 2010. But what do you do if your company is running Exchange 2003 or if you want to run IMAP (And your company only permits a “Outlook Anyware”-type setup, IMAP over HTTPS). Well you can either stick to running [...]
One more great guide from the guys at TheHowToForge! A step by step instruction on how to use the Host Update Utility from VMware. http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-vmware-esxi-3.5-to-4.1-update-1-free-version
Great plugin for Firefox! Your browser trusts many certification authorities and intermediate sub-authorities quietly, every time you enter an HTTPS web site. This add-on reveals when certificates are updated, so you can ensure it was a legitimate change. Download it here.
Nice video from VMware!
First enable local or remote TSM from the vSphere Client on every ESXi host: Select the host and click the Configuration tab. Click Security profile > Properties. Click Local Tech Support or Remote Tech Support (SSH) and click Options. Choose the desired startup policy and click Start, then click OK. Verify that the daemon selected [...]
I found this great Powershell script that convert virtual disk files to eagered zeroed. Awesome script! I had to make some changes to make it work in my environment. function Set-EagerZeroThick{ param($vcName, $vmName, $hdName) # Find ESX host for VM $vmImpl = Get-VM $vmName Write-Host $vmImpl if($vmImpl.PowerState -ne “PoweredOff”){ Write-Host “Guest must be powered off [...]
A couple of days ago I found a really great PowerCLI script that move templates i vSphere. Awesome post and script by afokkema at ict-freak.nl! Storage vMotion is a great feature to Move your VMs to other datastores. But what if you want to move your Templates? In the current version of vSphere there is [...]
I found a great post on how to remove the Host <ESXi Hostname> currently has no management network redundancy warning that you get on a typical ESXi whitebox installation. Due to the fact that most whitebox machines don’t have multiple nics.. For more info and screenshots, checkout the original post. When you completed building your [...]
So I really have to share a great Firefox add-on called Instaright. Instaright is social bookmarking platform and recommendation service. With Instaright on a single click you can save article, links on article or text selection from article. Firefox enhancement for Instapaper. Earn badges while surfing. Awesome and I use it all the time!
Last week I upgraded a vCenter 4.0 installation to 4.1u1. The vCenter was installed on a 32-bit VM so I needed to migrate the installation to a new 64-bit host. I tried to do the migration according to the vSphere 4.1 upgrade pre-installation requirements and considerations guide. But sadly I got an error during the [...]