Posts Tagged ‘VMware’

Changing the directory of your vSphere vCenter log files

March 10th, 2010 8 Comments

Something that a lot of people haven’t looked in to or just don’t think about is relocating the log files of vCenter, I wrote a short article 2 years ago and thought it was time to reiterate it. By default (Windows 2003) log files are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs”, and for [...]

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Posted in Server | Tags: Lessons Learned, log, tips, vcenter, VMware, vSphere

Creating a VMware Converter Appliance

February 22nd, 2010 10 Comments

I was playing around with VMware Converter and thought it would be cool to create a VMware Converter Appliance. I can’t put this up for download, yet, but I can describe how to build your own appliance. I will use Novell’s Suse Studio to create a thin Linux VM that contains only the necessary bits [...]

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Posted in Server | Tags: appliance, converter, VMware

Impact of decisions…

February 15th, 2010 6 Comments

I’ve been conducting VCDX Defense Interviews for a while now. Last week in Las Vegas during PEX something struck me and I guess this post by Frank Denneman is a good example…
On a regular basis I come across NFS based environments where the decision is made to store the virtual machine swap files on local [...]

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Posted in BC-DR, PASS Syndication, Server | Tags: architect, design, vcdx, VMware

VMware Partner Exchange 2010

February 13th, 2010 5 Comments

I attended VMware Partner Exchange this week in Las Vegas. I must say I was impressed. To be completely blunt; I wasn’t impressed with Vegas. Vegas is definitely not my cup of tea. I love a bit of “history” and Vegas hardly has any. Give me San Francisco, New York, Boston or any other city [...]

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Posted in Desktop, PASS Syndication, Server, Various | Tags: conference, pex, VMware

vSphere Security Hardening Guide script by @lamw

February 8th, 2010 2 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the vSphere Security Hardening Guide. Just a couple of days later William “the king of Perl” Lam already produced a script that checks the Hardening Guide best practices against your environment. It produces a great html based report.
Source
While going through the COS/HOST and VM documentation, I noticed [...]

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Posted in PASS Syndication, Server | Tags: ESX, esxi, vcenter, VMware, vSphere

Top-25 virtualization bloggers

January 18th, 2010 9 Comments

Eric Siebert just published the results of the Top-25 bloggers poll. Over 700 people voted and several bloggers entered the top-25 like Frank Denneman and Alan Renouf. I would like to thank everyone for voting on me. It’s a true honor to be part of a list like the following, let alone being voted as [...]

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Posted in PASS Syndication, Various | Tags: Blogging, Server, VMware, vSphere

Vote Now!

January 4th, 2010 No Comments

Eric Siebert has created a new poll to update his top 20 bloggers list. As many of you know I had the honor to be on the number one spot for the last three updates. Hopefully I will be part of the top 3 again, but the competition is huge. People like Chad Sakac, Scott [...]

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Posted in PASS Syndication | Tags: Blogging, VMware
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