Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Migrate virtual machines and enable thin provisioning

Posted on April 26, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I recently used this code to move a couple dozen terabytes of virtual machines from one array to another — all while enabling thin provisioning (aka sparse disk). Once the LUN migration is complete a nice little message shows up … Continue reading →

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Scripted Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) Configuration

Posted on April 3, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Recently I had an opportunity to work with several new Dell PowerEdge R810 physical servers. I needed to remotely connect to the console of these servers and found out they were equipped with Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 – … Continue reading →

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Minor Update to vCheck 5.31 — beta testers required

Posted on March 30, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I typically do not view my vCheck report as an email message…I have a link to the report on the home screen of my vSphere Client (if you’d like to see how to do that, please check out this post: … Continue reading →

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vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) and custom SSL certificates

Posted on March 18, 2011 by brian.wuchner

If you haven’t heard of the vCMA Fling, you should stop reading this article and check out http://labs.vmware.com/flings. It is by far my favorite application available. I like to use valid certificates on all VMware products. I’ve replaced certificates used … Continue reading →

Posted in Virtualization | 6 Comments

Guest bloggers

Posted on February 17, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Good evening, I have been speaking with co-workers about this blog and a few expressed interest in blogging about their day-to-day systems administration duties. In the near future you may see some posts from Steve Kremer. Steve is a co-worker … Continue reading →

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