At the Dutch VMUG, together with my colleague Jos Vanaubel, I presented about how to do cheap disaster recovery using only PowerShell. At the London VMUG I held the same presentation again and promised to upload the scripts to my blog. Well, here it is in PDF format:
scripting
VMware vSphere 4 default installation settings
When I was writing an installation document on vSphere I thought and have some friends on twitter check the doc and comment on it. I received a lot of responses and decided to make a blog post out of it, so here it is.
vSphere Quickstart Guide (with Alan Renouf) released on Amazon
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide continues from an idea started several years ago by a few engineers. The idea was simple, provide an easy to use reference guide for all level administrators, consultants and architects. Recently VMware introduced many new features in vSphere 4.0 and with this handy pocket guide you will learn about each of these new features. With each chapter, the pages in this essential guide will answer common questions while giving you unprecedented insight into: Expert tips & tricks Pitfalls to avoid RemoteCLI & PowerCLI (PowerShell) scripts Configuration how to’s Virtualization best practices
Using Linux shell scripts to automatically create VMware ESX 3.5 hosts
On the SearchVMware section of TechTarget.com a new tip of mine is published. “In any VMware ESX environment, VMware ESX hosts within the same cluster must be configured the same way. If a host in a cluster is not properly configured, basic networkingoperations such as or VMotion will fail. Manually installing and configuring new hosts […]
Deploying ESX3.5 using EDA v0.85 inside VMware Workstation 6.5
This article is written by guest writer: Simon Long. VMware Workstation is becoming a very good friend of mine since I installed it a few months ago, it makes testing soo much easier and quicker which pleases my boss as I’m not installing and uninstalling software on Production VM’s. My interest in deploying ESX using […]