Let’s face it, the vSphere C# client has been on life support since vSphere 5.5 and we’re reminded every time we open the console. Therefore it shouldn’t be a surprise that VMware announced on its blog today that the vSphere C# client will… Continue Reading
The first glimpse of vCenter’s shiny new client is here! Released as a Fling, the new vSphere HTML5 Web Client is currently just a technical preview but you can expect regular development as we saw with the ESXi Embedded… Continue Reading
These flashcards are just one of the many great tools available to help you study for your VCP6-DCV exam. You’ll quickly memorize configuration maximums, roles, policies, and much more! Best of all you can take them on the go and there’s not re-shuffling needed! Continue Reading
It was well over a year after HP announced their Gen 9 ProLiant line that we began using the new platform to build out VMware hosts. We wanted to leverage the latest v3 Xeon processors for our heaviest hitting and most critical workloads. When… Continue Reading
FAT16 had a long run, from the old days of DOS up through to Windows 95. I thought the days of 2GB volumes were long gone. That is, up until a week ago when I lost all networking on an… Continue Reading
Welcome back to part 2 of our vSphere .NET application development series. In part 1, we wrote an application that displays the VM’s, Hosts, and Clusters in our vCenter using the VMware.VIM library. Today, we’re going to build upon that application… Continue Reading
I’ve created an awful lot of PowerCLI scripts over the years and even created GUI’s for many of them using PowerShell Studio. It’s incredibly gratifying to be able to craft your own tools to make admin life easier while learning… Continue Reading
VMware’s Site Recovery Manager is your automated disaster recovery run book. You can replicate your virtual machines using vSphere replication, or you can let your storage arrays do the heavy lifting. In this demonstration we’ll configure SRM 6.1 with 3PAR… Continue Reading
The vCenter Database (VCDB) is a lean, mean, data collection machine and it’s what makes your vCenter YOUR vCenter. The VCDB stores things like events, statistics, licensing, and configuration information for your environment. Under normal conditions your VCDB should… Continue Reading
Chrome 45 sounds a bit like a weapon, and if you’re an NPAPI based plugin consider yourself shot. Earlier this month, version 45 was released which killed off all support for NPAPI plugins including the VMware Client Integration Plugin for vCenter… Continue Reading