I ‘am testing an unattended installation of VMware ESXi from an USB drive. After every change, I needed to test if the unattended still worked. I tried to use VMware workstation to test the unattended installation. VMware Workstation doesn’t support boot from USB. There is an unofficial solution to …
Continue ReadingYesterday i did the VCP4 exam and passed with a score of 475. The exam has 85 questions and for a non English speaker you get 90 minutes to complete the exam. The passing score is 300 out of 500. The exam has 90 multiple choice/selects questions. The exam is harder than the VCP3 exam, but with …
Continue ReadingThere are four possible paths to achieve VCP4 certifiaction: If you are NEW to VMware Attend the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course OR attend the VMware vSphere 4: Fast Track (available in Q4) Take and pass the VCP4 exam If you are currently a VCP3 Take and pass the VCP4 exam. This …
Continue ReadingThe last three days i attended Microsoft TechDays in Antwerpen (Belgium). The first day (pre-conference) was dedicated to Windows 2008 R2. The other 2 days I attended sessions such as Windows 7, Powershell V2, SYSVOL replication and Remote Desktop Services (former Terminal Services). Here is an …
Continue ReadingI to VMworld Europe with two colleagues from our company Ictivity, we fly on tomorrow (Monday) from Rotterdam (The Netherlands) at 10.50. I have made a personal list with the session (and meetings/parties) who got my interest. There are lot interesting hands-on labs but the are not on the session …
Continue ReadingHere a new PowerShell report-event script. figure 1. Output reports-event script You can specify multiple servers in a text file, select how many hours from the current time to look in the eventlog and e-mail the HTML file after generation. The following syntax can be used: get-content …
Continue ReadingAfter investing the log files on the VMware ESX host i found the following message: Jan 22 12:39:34 boz101 vmkernel: 152:21:01:58.702 cpu4:1040)ALERT: LVM: 4476: vml.020003000060a980004335434b464a4b77554e59744c554e202020:1 may be snapshot: disabling access. See resignaturing section in SAN config …
Continue ReadingVMware vCenter version Cluster information (Updated) VMware statistics (New) List the active Snapshots CDROMs connected to VMs Floppy drives connected to VMs Datastores Information such as free space RDM information (New) VM information such as VMware tools version, processor and memory limits VMs …
Continue ReadingToday i had a nasty problem with a VMware environment. Some VMware ESX servers were disconnected from vCenter. Tried to connect the VMware ESX hosts using the VIC, but that was not possible. I was unable to login via SSH connection, connect with HP iLO to the HP Blade enclosure and did a remote …
Continue ReadingOn the PowerGUI website is a new version off VMware PowerPack released. A PowerPack extends the PowerGUI with a set of folders, nodes, links and actions that allow you to manage VMware Infrastructure. With the PowerPack no PowerShell knowledge is needed. The new version(December 19, 2008 (2.0.0) has …
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