Tag Archives: PASS

Hyper-Vacating Your Datacenter with vSphere 4.1

A new feature in vSphere 4.1 allows administrators to easily perform a cold conversion (V2V) of a Hyper-V virtual machine. Continue reading

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Book Review: Maximum vSphere

Maximum vSphere is Eric Siebert’s newest book and a must-have for any vSphere administrator. Continue reading

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Register a LUN full of VMs with PowerCLI

PowerCLI makes it easy to automate vSphere tasks such as registering dormant VMs. It is also easy to create a hosts file for resolving guest IP addresses when DNS is not available. Continue reading

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VMware vSphere 4.1 – the best virtualization platform yet

Roundup of recent VMware vSphere 4.1 reviews and competitive evaluation resources. Continue reading

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Taking snapshots of VMware ESX 4 running in a VM

VMware ESX 4 can virtualize itself, and by using a special undocumented configuration setting it is now possible to take snapshots of virtual VMware ESX 4 systems. Continue reading

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