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Category Archives: Xtravirt
vSphere RDP Client Plugin
Posted by on March 8, 2011
Another handy utility from Xtravirt – it adds a shortcut to the right-click context menu in the vSphere client to launch an RDP session to that particular VM. Very useful, of course you’ll need to ensure your admin workstation can get to port 3389/TCP (RDP) on that particular VM, but I find this very useful. [...]
Download the Full VMware Documentation Set with one Script
Posted by on February 15, 2011
I was pointed at a handy utility by a colleague at VMware, Xtravirt have a small DOS batch script that will download all of the current VMware documentation in .PDF format from VMware.com This is very handy if you are studying for your VCAP exams or doing some consulting with customers as you can take [...]
Slow vMotion..
Posted by on June 2, 2008
Note to remember, don’t forget to check the duplex settings on NICs handling your vMotion traffic. My updated clustered ESX test lab is progressing (more posts on that in the next week or so)… and I’m kind of limited in that I only have an old 24-port 100Mb Cisco hub for the networking at [...]
Free SAN for your Home/Work ESX Lab
Posted by on May 25, 2008
VM/Etc have posted an excellent article about a free iSCSI SAN VM appliance that you can download from Xtravirt it uses replication between 2 ESX hosts to allow you to configure DRS/HA etc. Excellent, I’m going to procure another cheap ESX host in the next couple of weeks so will post back on my [...]
