So basically I had a host failure where all of the configure was lost, if I was more savvy with Powershell/PowerCLI, I would have been able to rebuild it all via scripts, but that clones the settings from a working host. But nevermind that is for a different day of learning. So I configured the … Continue reading Using PowerCLI to create Virtual Machine Port Groups
Coding, Scripting, Powershelling, etc etc, Dirty words in the mouth of Infrastructure guys across the globe. When I was in college taking on my computer course, I had two options, Hardware and Networking, or Web Design. I went with my interests and skillsets, hardware and networking. Coding to me is something I wasn’t interesting in … Continue reading Get-PowerShelling or Remove-JobRole
So after an interesting North West VMUG event on 12th November, I’ve decided to write my own comments on the state of employment within IT. This is prompted by Neil Mills Talk at the above VMUG event, where he gave tips on super charging your CV, and the industry as he see’s it. Most of … Continue reading What an employer is looking for in a Technical Role
My good friend Nathan Bryne wrote a good post about “Do I really need to do a Desktop Assessment?“, which got me thinking. I worked at a college for around 3 years where we had a 1000 seat VMware View VDI deployment. I started working there just after the college had decided to go all-in … Continue reading Looking back at a VMware VDI Deployment
So basically I had a customer hit by a known HP-AMS driver issue (KB2085618), the symptons were as follows; Unable to vMotion a VM to another host, gives “operation timed out error” If power off VM, vMotion a machine to another host, and then power on, you get the following error “Could not start VMX: … Continue reading HP-AMS Driver causes ESXi memory leak