New Article – Joining an ESXi Host to an Active Directory Domain
I’ve added a very basic article to the Articles page on Joining an ESXi Host to an Active Directory Domain. I’ll probably update it in the next few weeks with more information on why you would do this.
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EMC – PowerPath/VE and rpowermt versions
Just a quick note to remind you all that, if you’ve upgraded the version of PowerPath/VE that you’re using to accommodate the upgrade to vSphere 5 (that is, you’ve moved from 5.4 SP2 to 5.7.0.173), you...
View ArticleVMware – VMworld 2013 announcements
I’m not there, but a few of the announcements coming out of VMworld looked pretty neat. Here’s a few links that shed some light on things. I hope to put some thoughts together on VMware Virtual SAN in...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.x License Editions and Features
In the spirit of letting those around me do all the hard work to generate content for this blog, my colleague was asking about limitations on various editions of vSphere 5.1. I was vague with the...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 1
I’ve been in the field recently, deploying one of my designs for a customer as our normal resources were tied up elsewhere. I’m rusty, to be sure, and haven’t done a lot of VMware deployment work...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 2
In a previous post, I mentioned I was doing a vSphere deployment sitting on some HP blades with SD cards installed. Because of this, I had to configure a few different parts of ESXi to point to network...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 3
This is my third post in a series of articles on some workarounds and things I had to look into when doing a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment. You In can find my previous articles here and here. In...
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VMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 4
I’ve been covering a few workarounds, mishaps and random things I’ve had to do during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment. This is Part 4 in the series, and I hope some of it is useful. You can read my...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 5
I’ve come across a few slightly odd things that I hadn’t accounted for during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment and thought it would be handy to document them. In this post (which is hopefully the...
View ArticleVMware – Joining an ESXi 5.5 Host to Active Directory with PowerCLI
I spoke about restarting some ESXi services when joining a domain in this post. Here’s how you might want to do it with PowerCLI. Firstly, you may need to modify the execution policy for PowerCLI. It’s...
View ArticleVMware vSphere Next Beta Applications Are Now Open
VMware recently announced that applications for the next VMware vSphere Beta Program are now open. People wishing to participate in the program can now indicate their interest by filling out this...
View ArticleVMware – VMworld 2013 announcements
I’m not there, but a few of the announcements coming out of VMworld looked pretty neat. Here’s a few links that shed some light on things. I hope to put some thoughts together on VMware Virtual SAN in...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.x License Editions and Features
In the spirit of letting those around me do all the hard work to generate content for this blog, my colleague was asking about limitations on various editions of vSphere 5.1. I was vague with the...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 1
I’ve been in the field recently, deploying one of my designs for a customer as our normal resources were tied up elsewhere. I’m rusty, to be sure, and haven’t done a lot of VMware deployment work...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 2
In a previous post, I mentioned I was doing a vSphere deployment sitting on some HP blades with SD cards installed. Because of this, I had to configure a few different parts of ESXi to point to network...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 3
This is my third post in a series of articles on some workarounds and things I had to look into when doing a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment. You In can find my previous articles here and here. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 4
I’ve been covering a few workarounds, mishaps and random things I’ve had to do during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment. This is Part 4 in the series, and I hope some of it is useful. You can read my...
View ArticleVMware – vSphere 5.5 U2 Workarounds and Random Things – Part 5
I’ve come across a few slightly odd things that I hadn’t accounted for during a recent vSphere 5.5 U2 deployment and thought it would be handy to document them. In this post (which is hopefully the...
View ArticleVMware – Joining an ESXi 5.5 Host to Active Directory with PowerCLI
I spoke about restarting some ESXi services when joining a domain in this post. Here’s how you might want to do it with PowerCLI. Firstly, you may need to modify the execution policy for PowerCLI. It’s...
View ArticleVMware vSphere Next Beta Applications Are Now Open
VMware recently announced that applications for the next VMware vSphere Beta Program are now open. People wishing to participate in the program can now indicate their interest by filling out this...
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