Category Archives: Virtualization

Multiple vCenters and MAC address conflicts

Posted on January 23, 2012 by brian.wuchner

VMware KB article 1024025 explains an issue with MAC address conflicts due to multiple vCenter configurations with the same instance ID. Here is a technical description straight from the KB article: Each vCenter Server system has a vCenter Server instance … Continue reading →

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Get-ESXCli and changes with vSphere 5.0

Posted on December 1, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I mentioned in a previous post (VMware View inside vCloud Director) that we had to make a last minute change to the lab content on the fly. This change was to Exercise 11 that covers the Get-ESXCli cmdlet. I should … Continue reading →

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GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 Lab

Posted on November 22, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Earlier this month I had the privilege of helping out with a PowerCLI hands on lab at the Greater Cincinnati VMUG regional event. The content of this GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 lab is now available online: GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 Lab A … Continue reading →

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Tools Upgrade Policy

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Mitch Baker

I was looking for a way to enable “Check and upgrade Tools during power cycling” for more than one VM at a time, but without enabling for all VM’s in the cluster. In this case our naming convention allowed for … Continue reading →

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VMware View inside vCloud Director

Posted on November 17, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I recently wrote about a PowerCLI lab I helped out with at the Greater Cincinnati VMUG (GCVMUG) whole day event (you can read more here). We had originally planned to have each lab station remote desktop into a vCenter server … Continue reading →

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