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vOpenData Update – Dashboard v2.0
A few days ago I pushed live a new update for the vOpenData Dashboard which included a few interesting things from an application perspective, I wanted to highlight some of them here. The Code The...
View ArticlevCOPs: Parse column data to remove data labels
Today I generated a vCOPs report in CSV for the first time with the hopes of doing some column sorting and excel math on the data only to find out that every data column includes the label. WHAT! Here...
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Challenge: Deploy ESXi and vCenter 5.5 without vSphere Client
So, the situation is this: I use a Mac full time and I am tired of having to boot up Windows to configure the first ESXi host and the vCenter Appliance in a new environment so I wanted to see what it...
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Alert: Java JRE 7u51 breaks vCloud Uploads Everything
Update (8/4/2014): I have created a tutorial on how to create a ThinApp package to help get around this, check it out! —- This morning it came to my attention that my customers were no longer able to...
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Intel Avoton: The Perfect Home Lab Host?
Introduction In the ever present search for the “ultimate home lab box,” I ran across a new contender, the new Intel Avoton. This is a really interesting SoC (System on a Chip) that has some promise...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Register all VMs on a datastore
Today I had an entire datastore of VMs to register, probably about 30 in total, and I didn’t want to go through the GUI and register each VM manually. I came up with this quick unix one-liner:# NOTE:...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Bonding, LACP and VLANs in Linux
I have been doing a lot of tinkering with linux based storage (more to come on that!) over the past few weeks and I had to hunt and peck around the internet to find all of the information on using...
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Alert: Firefox 30 is not a supported browser for vCloud 5.1.x
Update (8/4/2014): I have created a tutorial on how to create a ThinApp package to help get around this, check it out! —– If you suddenly start seeing something the following error in vCloud Director...
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UCS Networking Adventure: A tale of CoS and The Vanishing Frames
The Problem This week I had to connect an additional NetApp Storage System to my existing UCS environment through a different path than a similar shared storage platform that we utilize here. This...
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How To: ThinApp Firefox 29 and Plugins for vCloud Director 5.1.x
In response to this article about Firefox 30 and vCloud 5.1.x and this article about Java updates breaking everything I decided to throw together a quick How-to on using ThinApp to create a sandboxed...
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