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Dutch VMUG: PowerCLI is for administrators!

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:19:19 +0000

Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf did a great presentation on PowerCLI. PowerCLI is based on PowerShell. PowerShell is designed by Microsoft with the SysAdmin in mind. It’s the universal language for Windows data centers. Most of the time GUI interfaces are single purpose and rigid. PowerShell is the glue between your infrastructure. Microsoft makes it [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Keeping your infrastructure up to date

Sander Martijn — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:06:16 +0000

As with most products you want to keep them up to date for several reasons, which can include security, availability, reliability or even new features in the product. Keeping products up to date is a process that keeps repeating itself and needs a good plan to keep up with the most recent updates. A lot of times though you will [...]

by Sander Martijn

Updating ESX hosts with FT enabled VM’s

Sander Martijn — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:44:52 +0000

Up until a week ago, I hadn’t had the pleasure to work a lot with vSphere. Now with a test environment at the customer site I was able to freely play a bit with vSphere. One of the features I was curious on trying was Fault Tolerance (FT). I just created a random VM and [...]

by Sander Martijn

Upgrading VMware ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 (vSphere)

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:15:44 +0000

Yesterday we did an upgrade from an ESX 3.5 host to ESX 4.0 using the VMware Upgrade Manager. I must say it’s cool to see how you can upgrade your ESX hosts and after that you can schedule the updates for your virtual machines with a virtual hardware upgrade version 7 and new VMware Tools. [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Update Manager session disconnects

Erik Scholten — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:17:04 +0000

Recently I experienced problems with VMware Update Manager. When working with the virtual infrastructure the VI client suddenly displays a message stating that my session with VMware Update Manager was no longer valid and that the plugin would be unloaded. At first I suspected that network issues were the cause of the problem as at [...]

by Erik Scholten