Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: February 2009
DC02 – Best Practices for Lab Manager (VMworld Europe 2009)
Posted by on February 24, 2009
This was an interesting session; I’ve played a bit with Lab Manager but definitely intend to invest more time in it this year, key things for me were; There are approx 1000 deployments of Lab Manager at customers, a large percentage in Europe. You need to bear in mind VMFS constraints on the number of [...]
VMworld Europe Day 1: Keynote
Posted by on February 24, 2009
Today is the 1st day of the full public conference, for me the keynote was a repeat of most of the partner session yesterday but with a few tweaks and customer details. VMware always have good lead-in videos for their conferences and nice to note that Ducati are one of the many organisations that [...]
VMworld Partner Day wrap-up
Posted by on February 24, 2009
I take back what I said earlier about lack of technical track & content – whilst it wasn’t quite up to the list of previously announced sessions there was enough good stuff with information that is relevant to VMware partners with both a technical & competitive slant. I still have my concerns that tomorrow [...]
VMworld Partner Day – Keynote
Posted by on February 23, 2009
So things have kicked off here in Cannes for VMware partners of which my employer is one, the first session is the keynote/general session – covering general product announcements, some sales woop-de-woop and details of upcoming partner programmes. Despite the “current economic climate” (a phrase which has been used at least 100 times already [...]
VMworld minus 1 Day
Posted by on February 22, 2009
I’m here at VMworld Europe in Cannes after a good flight with BA from LHR Terminal 1, very efficient bus transfer from the airport to the conference centre, turn left at the arrivals hall – or follow the people with VMworld signs – Microsoft take note; there was no shuttle bus the day before [...]
Using VMware vCenter Converter 4 to create a Virtual Center Template
Posted by on February 20, 2009
I have a set of standard template Virtual Machines under VMware Workstation 6.5 that I use to spin up VMs, Workstation doesn’t have a native template feature but I get a VM to a point where I’m happy with the build, VM tools installed, Windows updates done etc. and then I sysprep it and [...]
VMworld Session Builder/Auto-Generator
Posted by on February 17, 2009
There is an automated session builder for VMworld, which lets you build up your sessions and export them into various calendar formats (Outlook, iCal etc.) I couldn’t find any navigation to this from the VMware homepage or vmworld.com site – but thanks to Virtual Aleph I managed to find a link, strange. The link [...]
vinf.net at VMWorld Europe 2009
Posted by on February 17, 2009
Less than 1 week to go now until VMworld Europe 2009 kicks off in Cannes, I will be there blogging about the content and this is a quick post to let you know what I will be doing during this time. “the tools” I’ve been using twitter for a while but not extensively; I’ve [...]
How to Administer a Windows 2008 Server from a Vista Client
Posted by on February 11, 2009
This confused me for a while, up until now I’ve been using Windows 2008 inside a VM, so have had little need to remotely administer it other than via the console. As you all know it’s better practice to use the MMC tools to admin remote servers rather than use terminal services to the [...]
Cannot Set Static IP in OpenFiler When Running as a VM
Posted by on February 4, 2009
As a result of a power outage last week my home lab needed a reboot as my 2 x ESX D530 boxes didn’t have auto-power on setting set in BIOS, so I dutifully braved the snow to get to the garage and power them on manually. However nothing came back online.. ESX started but [...]
