Although I’m not the biggest fan of programming and there fore PowerCLI, with vSphere5 you cannot do without it. So, if you want to create a small PowerCLI script for daily tasks this reference card can come in handy. Want to know more about PowerCLI? Follow @alanrenouf
As @esloof posted on Twitter, VMware Certified Professional 5 exam (VCP510) is now available in Pearson VUE test centers around the world, you may schedule your exam here http://www.vue.com/vmware/. Current VCP4 holders can take VCP5 exam without sitting any mandatory training until 29th of February 2012, after that date vSphere 5 What’s New training is [...]
In part 1 have have read how I upgraded my vCenter 4.1 server to vCenter 5.0. In this part I’m going to upgrade update manager on the same server. Later on I’m going to use update manger to upgrade my 2 vSphere ESXi 4.1 server to vSphere ESXi 5. Again, the first step is to [...]
Today I had the first day of the vSphere5 what’s new training bij Eric Sloof. I went especially to his training because I know that he always gives a outstanding course. The first part of the day was about upgrading your vSphere4 and vCenter4 host to version 5. And because today VMware released vSphere 5 [...]
Just a quick post before I go on a holiday. Today I did my VCAP410-DCD exam. After the VCAP410-DCA exam this was the most difficult exam I ever took. As with the VCAP410-DCA exam I needed the full 240 minutes for the exam. Gladly after finishing the 113 questions I had 15 minutes spare to [...]
In the early day’s (Windows 2003 and older) after the VMware tools where installed your video and mouse performance where dramatic improved. As of Windows 2008 and Windows 7 after the installation of the VMware tools, mouse performance is better. But video performance is still poor. If we look at the video adapter after the [...]
Last Friday I received the following email from John Troyer: Dear Michael Wilmsen, We’re pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities. You’ve done work above and beyond, and we’re delighted to communicate more closely, to share resources, and to offer other [...]
Yesterday was the 10 time that the novellcongres.nl was held in Ede the Netherlands. Although the amount of vistors was less than the years before, it’s was a nice day with a lot of interesting sessions. Especially the keynote session from Dirk Schmidt (Novell VP Sales EMEA) and Richard Lindstedt (PM Neutron) where really interesting. [...]
As you all probably know vSphere 4 is the latest version where there will be a service console. With the new version VMware ESX 5 there will only be a ESXi version. Some system administrators are disappointed with this decision of VMware. Personal I can understand the decision to eliminate the service console, because what [...]
In the vSphere client you have a option to monitor your hardware status. This is of course a very nice feature but only if you have your vSphere client open the whole day. When you have a management server like Nagios you want to use SNMP for monitoring your vSphere enviroment. By default SNMP modules [...]
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