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Re: eating the dog food (my conversion to a dedicated virtual desktop)

Linda — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:46 -0000

That is so nice, good info.

Re: vmware infrastructure client on ubuntu … getting closer

facebook-727874863 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:55:05 -0000

Aaron, I desperately need your input here...I've followed all your steps to get the login screen for VI Client on my Kubuntu 9.1 (winxp as the OS) 32 bit and .Net2.0. Also modded the proxy.xml and put in http:// in the server part of the VI Client login screen along with root and password.
I then get the 'load inventory/form etc..' in the background window which also shows the ESX3.5 server name. But at the end of loading, I get error

VM Infrastructure Client could not establish a connection with the server "ESX IP".
Details: The server took too long to respond.

uname -a : Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Any help highly appreciated man!
Pls let me know if you need any other info from me to sort this out.

Please not that my Kubuntu machiine has (XP & 2003 OSs) and I can use the VI Client in them to login without any issues..

Thanks a million!

Regards,
Bharath

Re: Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications

Hugh Kennedy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:15:27 -0000

Awesome post. Thanks for clarifying a lot of issues.

Re: Get Thin Provisioning working for you in vSphere

Tom — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:21:00 -0000

Recommended reading to counterbalance:

http://lonesysadmin.net/2009/11/06/vmware-vsphe...

The most important item to notice is that apparently defragging a TP disk will automatically UN-thin it!!

HTH Tom

Re: Get Thin Provisioning working for you in vSphere

ddbrown — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:51:43 -0000

Great article and as we move forward with upgrading our environment from 3.5 to vSphere, we'll definitely be looking at VMware managing this process as opposed to the array side.
Thanks,

@ddbrown

Re: Powershell and the VI Toolkit for Windows

Name — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:05:45 -0000

What I don't get is this... I can execute Powershell scripts from the Powershell prompt. But if I try to use any of the VI Toolkit functionality it errors out. I have to actually be at the "VI Toolkit" command prompt for scripts to run successfully. Did I miss an important integration piece that will marry the VI Toolkit environment to the Powershell environment?

Re: Farewell Mrs. Speck. My life is better because of you.

Ari — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:48:03 -0000

Aaron. My heart felt sympathies go out to you and your "other family".
Knowing the kind of person you are and now seeing where it comes from, show me that you truly are a great person and friend. You have been given a great gift in a moment of darkness. Even from beyond she is still teaching you. Even if you do not know it yet.

Cherish what time you have with the ones you love and care about because tomorrow may be to late.

Luv Life, Live Luv
(Keep it Real)

Ari

Re: Farewell Mrs. Speck. My life is better because of you.

facebook-1805172554 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:38:23 -0000

Very touching Aaron. I will say this much. I would not have passed high school without her. Her class was my last credit needed and halfway through I missed 3 weeks because I was very sick. She called my parents daily and met with them numerous times to help me keep up with the class.

Re: Farewell Mrs. Speck. My life is better because of you.

Missy L — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:56:01 -0000

Aaron,

Very well done. My heart goes out to you on the loss of your other mom. I had her for Expository Writing in my senior year. Even though everyone in the class had read Huck Finn for the fourth time during her class she kept it fun and interesting. I kept her steps of writing a research paper that she gave me until it fell apart sometime during grad school. I don't think I will ever forget the smile and wink she gave me one time when she introduced her student teacher to us... we both know him Jeff Pumphrey... she let both Jeff and I get away with catching up between the lesson and the in class work. Cherish the memories you have they will get you through the rough times.

Re: Farewell Mrs. Speck. My life is better because of you.

schroed0024 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:16:21 -0000

Aaron, my prayers to you and the Speck family. We can certainly see in your writing skills and passion what a lasting affect Mrs. Speck had on you. Be strong brother.

Re: Farewell Mrs. Speck. My life is better because of you.

Jim Gill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:16:17 -0000

Very nicely written...

Re: Farewell Mrs. Speck. My life is better because of you.

Ari — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:30:32 -0000

Re: Get Thin Provisioning working for you in vSphere

NiTRo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:46:22 -0000

Nice script, i also added % freespace for mine :
$Details | Add-Member -Name "Disk$($DiskNum)FreeSpace(%)" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value ((([math]::Round($disk.FreeSpace / 1MB))*100)/([math]::Round($disk.Capacity/ 1MB)))

Re: Get Thin Provisioning working for you in vSphere

Joe Dirt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:35:10 -0000

Keep your top on Misty.

Re: Get Thin Provisioning working for you in vSphere

Misty Mays — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:28:56 -0000

Hi just to be honest I am not sure about this thin disking.

Re: A slick USB over IP solution that I use every day

exitdevice — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:42:18 -0000

i really need this type info who solved my problem because i am really much more used the USB device and i never live that because it's very helpful to me. please find the solution. i am waiting your next info.

Re: vmware infrastructure client on ubuntu … an update

Roberto — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:02:12 -0000

Hi Aaron,

thanks for your guide, but in my environment I have also selected vcrun2005 "MS Visual C++ 2005 libraries (mfc80,msvcp80,msvcr80)" in winetricks installer.

Roberto

Re: VCDX Admin Exam Notes — Section 1.1

printer3 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:00:33 -0000

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Re: Are you studying for the VCDX Enterprise Admin Exam?

leeon — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:13:08 -0000

Hey please add my name when you make the mailing list .I am vcp and preparing for my vcdx.

Re: vmware infrastructure client on ubuntu … getting closer

eddiepetosa — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:58:33 -0000

When it comes to Linux, it seems everyone has a problem with ssl certificates. Why is that? Or perhaps I only read the posts of people still learning, just like me.

Re: VCDX Admin Exam Notes – Section 1.4

asweemer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:28:43 -0000

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the comment. Now that I'm back from VMworld, I'll focus on getting my notes on the blog. The rest of this week I'm pretty busy, so look for them early next week.

Thanks,
Aaron

Re: Notes from VMware (aka, Mr. Michael White’s Newsletter)

asweemer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:24:26 -0000

Hi Joe,

I'll send your contact info over to Michael White. Thanks for the comment :)

Aaron

Re: Notes from VMware (aka, Mr. Michael White’s Newsletter)

joelamb — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:58:39 -0000

Aaron, I work with Qsource Networks, a VMware partner in Atlanta and would love to be on the distro list. Thanks!

Re: VCDX Admin Exam Notes – Section 1.4

alex — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:31:06 -0000

Hey Aaron,

Great set of notes for sections 1.1 - 1.4.
Do you have any plans for sections 2 - 8?

Even if you have some basic notes on section 2 - 8 (ie doesn't have to be pretty like sections 1.1 - 1.4) would appreciate if you could email them through.

With regards,
Alex

Re: Notes from VMware (aka, Mr. Michael White’s Newsletter)

theronconrey — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:40:45 -0000

Gotta love NDAs. I'll just get a rss feed setup. :)

Thanks!
-Theron