There is an update on the vSphere 5.1 Hardening guide. As you know, this guide is very good tool to start to harden your infrastructure running vSphere 5.1. There is a newly available Mobile version of vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide. It’s been published through the VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal (VMKP). The VMKP app provides access to […]
USB Image tool – Free utility for imaging USB sticks
When working with physical systems, you usually use tools like Acronis, Norton Ghost etc. In case you need to backup or archive a whole USB stick with all the partitions, you might be interested in this cool tool called USB Image tool, which can create a complete image of an USB stick. Usually when running […]
VMware Converter 5.1 Standalone Released
After few months in public beta, the VMware Converter 5.1 Standalone has been released. I wrote an article on that – Nice Update VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 (beta) where I introduced the new features, like the support for Virtual Hardware version 9 or GUID Partition Table (GPT) Disk support. Also EXT 4 as an filesystem […]
Edit VMX file – quick tips
Sometimes there might be some reasons to edit VMX files. Usually in lab testing, you might be editing VMX files more often than the VMX files you have for production VMs. Right? That does not mean that you would not want to learn about some guidelines or good practices on editing those VMX files. The […]
ESXi Free vs Paid – What are the differences?
Fairly often new people discovering VMware asking these questions: ESXi free vs paid? What’s the difference? While for many folks, VMware certified people, and others, this question (and especially the answer) is obvious, the new people who just discovered virtualization, might want to know exactly. That’s why this post. At first, you might want to read […]
PowerShell 3.0 Cheat Sheets – learn quickly some tips and tricks
There is 5 PowerShell 3.0 Cheat Sheets available as a free download from Microsoft. If you’re IT sysadmin, you certainly started using PowerShell here or there. If not, you have an occasion to learn some quickly some tips and tricks, shortcuts, and common operations in the new Windows Powershell 3.0. So for example, in the first […]
Splunk App For Windows Server
New release of Splunk App for Windows server is available. This product is designed for Windows servers, where version 2003, 2008 or 2012 servers are currently supported releases, but can be installed also on client machines running Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8. This new release introduces new dashboard for distributed environments, with customizable performance […]
How to find inactive computer accounts in Active Directory
From time to time you might need to clean up the Active Directory from computer accounts which are no longer active. Computers that has been reinstalled, replaced with new ones, old VMs. In many of those case you’ll might just end up with active directory full of computer objects that are obsolete. In fact those […]
Download VMware vCenter Multi Hypervizor Manager 1.1 (beta)
Having the possibility manage vSphere and Hyper-V v3.0 seems exciting for homelabers and users willing to run vSphere with Microsoft Hyper-V in the same environment with a possibility to manage both with single tool – VMware vCenter. This becomes possible thanks to new beta release of VMware vCenter Multi Hypervizor Manager 1.1 (beta). The product is […]
VMware vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script released – New Fling
A new fling called vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script made its apparition at VMware Labs. A very usefull tool for consultants, IT or datacenter admins, which makes the life of upgrades a bit easier… -:). The vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script is a PowerShell script which check your current environment before upgrading to the latest vSphere 5.1 […]
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