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Category Archives: Virtualization
Repeated Characters when Typing in Remote Console
I’m attending a training class this week – vSphere Troubleshooting – and have used the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) for the first time. In the lab guide we began by deploying the virtual appliance for vMA. One of the first … Continue reading
Storage vMotion with Thin-Provisioning in PowerShell
In an earlier post I mentioned a script written by a co-worker to determine all of the non-thinprovisioned virtual machines. This script is a follow-up to that, which allows actually uses storage vMotion to resolve the problems. It is important … Continue reading
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Get Thick Provisioned Disks
Another interesting PowerCLI script from today. My proof of concept environment uses thin provisioned disks — this lets us have a lot more test machines than we really have disk space. The other day we ran out of space … Continue reading
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Guest OS Mis-match
I’ve been working on cleaning up my vSphere environment and found a very handy one-liner today. The full article can be found here: http://frankdenneman.nl/2009/12/impact-of-mismatch-guest-os-type/ I took the suggestions in the comments and came up with the following: Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine … Continue reading
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Server Cloning with Presentation Server 4.x
I’ve been reading up on requirements and performance information for virtualizing Citrix servers. I’ve actually been P2Ving a few – to save my Citrix guys from having to reinstall a bunch of legacy apps. Even though all the recommendations I … Continue reading
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