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    Attaching Local Storage as a RDM

    Let me start off by stating that this is NOT supported….. I wanted to attach a local drive to a VM, but wanted the ability to move this drive to a physical Windows server at a later time without the time consuming data migration or...

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    Quickly deploy test environment in VMware Workstation

         Whether I am looking to test out a new capability or solution, or simply grabbing screenshots for documentation, I almost always turn to VMware Workstation in order to quickly and easily deploy a test environment in order to get this done. In this post...

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  • Free VKernel Capacity Modeler Download

    Free VKernel Capacity Modeler Download

         VKernel is offering perpetual license for their Capacity Modeler from now through the end of the year. I have not had time to take a look at the product, the price is definitely right to add to the bag of tools I carry around....

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  • The Virtualization Paradigm and the transition to normalcy

    The Virtualization Paradigm and the transition to normalcy

         I have been working in the application consultancy for quite some time and it is hard to remember the last architecture or implementation I have done that has not included VMware. For many of my customers, this was the first time the virtualization concepts...

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    DRS Deep Dive

    Duncan Epping over at Yellow Bricks has posted a great article explaining the inner-workings of VMware DRS. Like he states in his article, I have never had to trouble shoot any DRS issues and have taken for granted that it just works. It is good...

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    VMware Document Downloader

    Paul Buckle over at xtravirt has created a very useful batch file for downloading all the VMware documentation. This makes a really handy offline reference library especially if you need the information at the speed of fast. You will need to register in order to download...

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    Greatest VMware Video!!

    I can watch this video over and over (I know.. I’m sick).. Who could of imagined that someone could create a music video about VMware virtualization. I guess they had to many late nights and redbull. My hat is off and Kudos to the creators.

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  • When good NICs go bad!!

    When good NICs go bad!!

         My team was deploying a new SharePoint portal for a customer and were seeing some strange behavior from some of our VMs. Our environment consisted of 3 BL685 servers running ESX and 9 VMs ( I know this is overkill, but our customer was...

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  • Remove unwanted/old connections from vSphere Client

    Remove unwanted/old connections from vSphere Client

    If you’re like me, you connect to many different environments at customer sites and your vSphere Client drop-down get’s fairly extensive and cluttered with the old connections you will no longer use.

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  • Missing VMDK?

    Missing VMDK?

          Some how in my late night troubleshooting, I managed to delete the virtual disk (vmdk) file associated with one of my VMs. I was greeted with a very unpleasant error message attempting to power on my VM. Of course I had to try and...

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