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How to set up a VMware vSphere Lab in Virtual Machines, with DRS and HA
I recently wrote a (reasonably!) lengthy article on how to set up your own VMware vSphere lab or test environment consisting entirely of Virtual Machines, running off of one piece of host hardware....
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Review: PHD Virtual Backup & Replication 5.4
Introduction PHD Virtual Backup & Replication is as the name would suggest, a complete, all-in-one backup and replication package. It is available in both VMware and Citrix XenServer flavours....
View ArticleGet Virtual Machine Inventory from a Hyper-V Failover Cluster using PowerShell
A colleague was asking around for a PowerShell script that would fetch some inventory data for VMs on a Hyper-V cluster the other day. Not knowing too much about Hyper-V and having only ever briefly...
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PowerCLI – script to deploy multiple random VMs
There are probably tons of scripts out there to deploy VMs in a vSphere environment, but I was in the mood for scripting this evening and decided to create my own PowerCLI script to automatically...
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VM provisioning from e-mail using Python and the VMware Perl SDK
This is a bit of a fun project that I did as a part of my presentation of the vPi project. It doesn’t necessarily achieve anything useful (at least not on the surface), but it does demonstrate some...
View ArticleThree PowerCLI scripts for information gathering – VMs, Hosts, etc
I was on a vSphere upgrade review engagement recently, and part of this involved checking hardware and existing vSphere VI was compatible with the targeted upgrade. To help myself along, I created a...
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Solving VMware Fusion 6 and Windows 7 VM performance issues
I have been struggling along with various VM performance issues over the last couple of months using VMware Fusion 5.x, as well as the latest 6.0.3. I just didn’t get the time to dedicate to find a fix...
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Fix for VM console error – unable to connect to the mks the operation is not...
Bit of a strange one this – I have not dug deeper to find the root cause, but here is a quick fix for anyone with the issue. I found we could not open VM console sessions in a vCenter 5.5 environment...
View ArticleChanging DNS on Azure IaaS VM’s NIC forces RDP / network disconnect
I just noticed this happen to a VM I was connected to this evening. All I did was change the primary DNS from automatically assigned to manual, gave it a DNS server IP, and provided a backup secondary...
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