This post is a guest post by Richard Robbins who recently did an interesting task – Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0. He contacted me on Twitter asking which would be the good direction to take and then few tweets later he came up with a working solution in his environment. As I haven’t had the […]
vSphere Web Client integration plug-in fails
The thing is that this message saying that Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality is pretty showstopper as it prevents you to deploy OVF file via web browser. This might however be a problem in situations when the OVF file has properties which are visible only through Web client as the “old” vSphere […]
How To Stop the Self-Signed Cert warning when connecting to vCenter
This is a usual situation. You connect to vCenter with self-signed certificate installed and you get this warning on your web browser, that the security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority. It’s normal as the certificate isn’t really trusted by nobody, but you. And it’s you who gets […]
VCP6-DTM Objective 3.1 – Configure Automated Pools using linked clones
Another post focusing on VMware desktop certification exam today. VCP6-DTM Objective 3.1 – Configure Automated Pools using linked clones. Yes, pool settings, linked clones etc. Good stuff. All exam objectives will be on our VCP6-DTM page (for now it’s work-in-progress). But in order to do that we must first prepare a source (golden image) of that first pool, […]
Altaro Full Test Restore in a Sandbox
Verification of backups is important. Sometimes you can have a backup taken, everything seems to correct, but then when you need to boot the restored VM you have a failure. For a variety of reasons like file corruption etc. Altaro allows to restore a backed up VM to a sandbox where the VM is booted up […]
VMware Converter 6.1 Supports Windows 10 and Hyper-V v3 VMs
VMware Converter 6.1 Released adds possibility to convert (Powered Off) Hyper-V v3 VMs and also compatibility with Windows 10 OS. This is strange as just few weeks ago I tried to convert my laptop running W10 by using the 6.0 version of VMware converter and did not experienced any issues. VMware converter has many possible […]
VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture
In today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture we’ll activate one of the newer feature of Horizon View – Cloud Pod architecture. A View Pod cannot cross multiple datacenters, but a federation can be done between PODs where one POD local and one in remote datacenter. Each View pod is an independent entity […]
Xangati Virtual Appliance – Now With Remediation Capabilities and Native Hyper-V Support
Xangati Virtual Appliance now has an automatic remediation capabilities. Monitoring is good, but having a possibility to remediate an issue (a bottleneck) is better. That’s why Xangati’s news saying that they are not only able to monitor and point you to a problem, but also be able to execute a remediate action is an interesting move. A […]
vSphere 6 Training Course at PluralSight
There has been a new vSphere 6 Training Course released at Pluralsight. The Author is Greg Shield who covers every single topic of vSphere 6 from clean install, upgrades, managing VMs or configuring advanced networking or HA options and much more. Greg Shields is Author Evangelist with Pluralsight and is a globally-recognized expert on systems management, virtualization, […]
Quickprep Or Sysprep – What’s the difference?
Quickprep Or Sysprep – What’s the difference? I got this question the other day via e-mail, whether there is a big difference between Quickprep and Sysprep. Yes there is, but not as significative as you might think a s both tools can change computer name or join a computer into a domain, but one of the […]
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