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  • Simple things we forget too easy…

    Simple things we forget too easy…

         It’s been a while since I’ve done any sort of O&M, but I have always taken pride in my ability to troubleshoot difficult problems. I was having an issue with one of my Ubuntu VMs. Everything “appeared” to be fine, but in hindsight, I...

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    Mike Laverick releases free SRM book…

    Mike Laverick has just announced that he has made his Administering VMware™ Site Recovery Manager™ 1.0 book available for free download!You can either download the high quality PDF in English or you can order the print edition for printing cost + shipping. Download or order...

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    One more reason to own an iPhone

    Last night I was changing my network configuration, moving ISA from a single-NIC to a back-firewall between my DMZ and my internal network. I made this change so wordpress wouldn’t see all the traffic as coming from my ISA IP. My concern was with comment...

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    powerCLI Daily Report

    Virtu-Al has developed a great powerCLI script that creates a daily report of your virtual infrastructure. This gives a quick and informative representation of how things are performing. You can run this as a sheduled task and get a quick look at how the day...

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    Gifts from vReference

    Forbes Guthrie over at vReference has provided some absolutely necessary documents for anyone working with/designing a virtual infrastructure.

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    VMware Network Port List

    I don’t normally link to other peoples sites, but the table is a must for anyone working with VMware. Greg Lato has written out a very useful table of VMware network ports. You can access it here. I also created a pdf and an excel...

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    Configuring Untangle to work with ESX in Bridged Mode

    Due to my network configuration and the fact that I use Vonage for my home phone service, I needed to run Untangle in bridged mode. This is where Untangle only has one IP on the external interface and the Internal NIC is bridged to this...

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    Adding Sysprep files to VirtualCenter 2.5

    The Basic System Administration guide for VirtualCenter 2.5 requires that the sysprep files be extracted to the VirtualCenter server for guest customization to be available when cloning a virtual machine. Below are the download links for various Microsoft OSes and specific extraction instructions.

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