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 | Where { $_.Guest.GuestFullname -ne $_.Summary.Config.GuestFullName } | Sort Name…

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 can find oppose this method, it appears to be successful…

vCenter Migration

I had a big day at the office a couple of days ago.  I moved my vCenter application from one dedicated server to another.  That doesn’t sound like a huge ordeal, but it was a pain in the rear.  I stumbled along with a lot of help from Google and…

Windows 2000 P2V blue screens

I recently had two older model Compaq servers blue screen after a P2V conversion. In each case the physical machines had a diagnostic partition (without an assigned drive letter) on disk before the boot/C: partition. While using the VMware Converter this volume was de-selected and not migrated to the virtual…

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