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Oops how embarrassing!
It seems Ma.gnolia managed to shoot itself, and some tips to help us prolific bookmarkers.
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VMware vShield – was it worth it?
I just spent a couple of hours happily deploying VMware vShield Zones, less happily pouring over the manuals, and then unhappily thinking I’d wasted my time. I think our ESX platform is fairly typical....
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and now, the Google Chrome OS…
After the raging success of Google’s Android phone OS (ok, NOT), Google are now leaping into everyday computing OS with their Google Chrome Operating System. It will be released initially for netbooks,...
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Free: Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V
Fascinating movement in the virtualisation space currently. With Hyper-V R2, MS will be providing a FREE virtualisation platform which includes Live Migration, and High Availability as standard. This...
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vSphere ESX4: Hot Add Memory for Linux Guests
I was asked recently if I could hot-add some RAM to a client’s virtual machine over at virtualDCS. Most of the information I’d found online related to Windows Server versions, but I needed to hot add...
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vSphere ESX4: Hot Add CPUs for Linux Guests
Sometime ago within my post entitled vSphere ESX4: Hot Add Memory for Linux Guests, I promised to blog about hot add CPU support to the same VM. As you may have guessed, I didn’t get around to writing...
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HowTo: Quiesced snapshots of Forefront TMG virtual machines
VMware quiesced snapshots fail when the guest is running Microsoft Forefront TMG (Threat Management Gateway). This adversely affects vSphere vDR backup, so here is the workaround.
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SMTP, ESMTP, and the BDAT baddie
I recently had to troubleshoot a problem with an external SMTP service which was having difficulty delivering mail to our corporate mail server. The delivering service was running Windows 2003...
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vSphere vDR 1.2 LVM limitation and workaround
One of our users at virtualDCS was recently experiencing problems recovering data using the vSphere ‘VMware Data Recovery’ (vDR) release 1.2 within their CentOS Linux VM using the ‘File Level Recovery’...
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vCloud Director 101
I decided to write this blog (read it in reference to my slideshow) to give you guidance on the complex terminologies of VMware vCloud director. I will refer to it vCD from now on to save my poor...
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vCheck syslog plugin update
I regularly use Alan Renouf’s excellent vCheck powershell utility to help me manage and maintain some sort or order with my ESXi hosts. Unfortunately the good people at VMware are charging ahead...
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Cisco VPN Client – Decrypted: 0 woes
For a long time I have used Cisco VPN client on my Windows 7 computers. I use it to provide IPSec VPN tunnels to Cisco ASA firewalls and it works well enough for me to not resort to ShrewSoft. Until...
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Case of the high disk activity
A Blog by Ben Lavender So it’s finally Friday here and I was driving to the office this morning when I thought about another idea for a tech-blog that I could share with our customers. Now whenever I...
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