Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
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This blog is not dead. but it is a little bit quiet
Posted by on December 8, 2011
Apologies for the lack of posting, this is another one of those I’ve been too busy to blog busy excuse posts. I have a ton of stuff I am working on – including the next London VMware User Group meeting on Jan 26th and vTARDIS 5 posts as well as a very challenging customer project. [...]
OS X Lion can’t connect to Iomega IX4 NAS workaround
Posted by on July 20, 2011
Today a received my new Mac Book Pro, it shipped with OS X Snow Leopard but by coincidence it arrived on the day Lion was released in the App Store so being an early adopter (read gadget freak) I upgraded it immediately to Lion – which took ~15mins on my Mac which has an [...]
VMworld US is still better value than VMworld EMEA
Posted by on July 5, 2011
I’m in the middle of planning my VMworld trip(s) this year, now I’m no longer working for a vendor or a consultancy I have to fund my trip myself, I’m happy to do this as I view it as an excellent training & networking opportunity. I already have a good foundation in infrastructure and [...]
vPastures New
Posted by on May 25, 2011
I’ve had a great time working at VMware since last year and have worked with some of the greatest minds in the industry on some interesting projects. But, after a lot of deliberation I have taken the decision to leave the relative comfort of a “permanent” position at a vendor to work on a freelance [...]
Finding Nexentastor CE IP address from the Command Line
Posted by on January 13, 2011
I found that I had a problem with my Nexentastor CE appliance build and needed to do some configuration by the command line – the quickest way to do this is to logon as root (using the password you specified during the installer) Then type setup, that gives you a quick access way to [...]
Passed VCAP-DCD Exam
Posted by on January 12, 2011
After a bit of confusion and receiving the wrong exam results via email I got a nice email with a PDF copy of my scope report this morning, so I have now passed my VCAP-DCD 411 exam, with a mid-300’s score. I did the beta exam (and because of availability and my schedule I had [...]
New year, New Look for vinf.net
Posted by on January 8, 2011
This blog is hosted on WordPress.com, rather than a dedicated WordPress instance – there are a number of reasons for this, but the main one is that it’s free. I also wanted to keep this site to do with content, being on wordpress.com limits what you can do in terms of plug-ins, themes etc. [...]
Cannot Logon to vCD guest with Auto-generated Password
Posted by on December 20, 2010
vCD by default will customize Windows 200x guests using Sysprep (see administrators guide, page 12 for how to create the sysprep packages) to generate a new SID, password, etc. One problem I have noticed is that the auto-generated password often includes the hash/pound character. When the sysprep process is executed during VM boot the [...]
Distributed Power Management (DPM) for your Home Lab
Posted by on September 28, 2010
I am in the middle of rebuilding and expanding my vTARDIS home lab environment (look out for an update soon) but as I’m adding more physical vSphere hosts I’ve been looking at ways to reduce the overall power consumption as my lab has now overtaken the idle power consumption of the rest of my [...]
HP Blade iLo and Internet Explorer 8 Problems
Posted by on May 26, 2010
Whilst HP kit is still very good and despite the disappointing iLo performance I have noticed a further annoyance, there seem to be a number of incompatibilities between the HP Blade iLo’s, blade chassis virtual connect modules and Internet Explorer 8, they all work ok on IE7, so hopefully an update will be coming [...]
