Category Archives: Virtualization

vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) tools upgrade

Posted on June 4, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I recently went through and upgraded the VMware Tools on all of my virtual machines.  The only one I couldn’t get to work was my vCenter Mobile Access machine.  After some searching, I finally found this article on the VMware … Continue reading →

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Enabling vSwitch Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

Posted on June 3, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I recently attended the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting course.  It was a very good course and I’d recommend it to anyone responsible for day-to-day maintenance of a virtual infrastructure.  During the course we discussed the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) and looked at … Continue reading →

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Linux P2V with VMware Converter Stand Alone

Posted on June 1, 2010 by brian.wuchner

Over the years I have seen thousands of Windows Servers and completed hundreds of Windows P2Vs.  I only have dozens of Linux Servers and have yet to attempt a Linux P2V – until now! To beign I found an older … Continue reading →

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P2V Post Migration Cleanup

Posted on May 4, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been doing a lot of P2V migrations over the last few months and wanted to share a couple of lessons learned. Our environment uses McAfee ePO to centrally manage our desktops and servers. We noticed that after a P2V … Continue reading →

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A quick way to find virtual machines with incorrect names

Posted on May 3, 2010 by brian.wuchner

A few days back I saw a twitter post from @maishsk which linked to this article: http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-speed-up-your-powercli-queries.html The article got me thinking about the difference between Get-VM and Get-View and I wanted to apply it to a script I’ve been … Continue reading →

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