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Using PowerCLI to speed up Question time

April 7, 2013 Mark Ukotic Leave a comment

It seems like all my posts start of the same way, “I recently had an issue…”, but it’s true 🙂…

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Posted in: PowerCLI, PowerShell, VMware Filed under: Get-VMQuestion, powercli, Set-VMQuestion, vCenter

Connecting to vCloud Director via PowerCLI

April 1, 2013 Mark Ukotic Leave a comment

I’m currently stuck administrating a vCloud Directory 1.5 environment.  I don’t have any major concerns with vCD 1.5 but sometimes…

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Posted in: PowerShell, VMware Filed under: connect-ciserver, powercli, vcd, vcloud, vmware

VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive book review

March 27, 2013 Mark Ukotic Leave a comment

After procrastinating for months I finally headed over to amazon.com and purchased Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman’s VMware vSphere 5.1…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: book, DRS, HA, vmware, vsphere

Who cares about Guest OS Version in vCenter

March 21, 2013 Mark Ukotic 2 Comments

For years I’ve been setting the Guest OS type in VMware vSphere and Workstation and for years it’s bugged me. …

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: Guest OS, Guest OS Version, vmware, vsphere

Downgrade VMware Hardware version -the unsupported way!

March 11, 2013 Mark Ukotic Leave a comment

I tend to run a pretty tight shop with my VMware infrastructure. I always make sure that everything is up…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: downgrade, esx, esxi, hardware version, vmx, vsphere

Windows Server 2012 VM requires No Execute (NX) flag

January 6, 2013 Mark Ukotic 1 Comment

A work colleague recently had an issue trying to install a Windows Server 2012 VM.  The host was running ESXi5 with…

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Posted in: VMware, Windows 2012 Filed under: BIOS, esxi, No eXecute, NX flag, WIndows Server 2012

Enable EqualLogic Active Directory Authentication

December 4, 2012 Mark Ukotic 5 Comments

If you’re using a DELL EqualLogic SAN you have the ability to turn on Active Directory authentication.  The benefit once…

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Posted in: SAN Filed under: active directory, ad, authentication, DELL, equallogic, SAN, sso

The Hung VM on reboot

November 27, 2012 Mark Ukotic Leave a comment

I recently had a crashed VM running on ESXi4 that hung during reboot on the black VMware boot screen. After…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: esx, hung, RDM, starting, vmware

Worst folder naming convention ever!

November 22, 2012 Mark Ukotic Leave a comment

I have to give credit to my co-working, Stu, for finding this one.

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Disable Time Synchronization of ESX guest

November 9, 2012 Mark Ukotic Leave a comment

One thing that I hate is time syncing of VMs.  It’s caused me grief for years.  For the most part,…

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Posted in: VMware Filed under: disable, esx, sync, synchronization, time, vmware, vmx

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