Planet vSphere-land

Have you been wanting to start down the VCDX3 track and were a little hesitant because you knew the VCDX4 would be shortly approaching? Well here is some information that could help you with your planning. VMware has recently made public some changes to their certifications program. As many of you already knew there is the VCP certification which requires taking a VMware Approved class as well a...

After almost 8 long months the time is upon us! The McGraw-Hill published VMware Certified Professional vSphere 4 (VCP410) Study Guide is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com! I had the honor of working on this book as the technical editor and I could tell you that if you’re planning on taking the VCP410 exam to become a VCP that this is the book to study with! The book will start to ...

As handful of patches have just been released by VMware for their flagship bare-metal virtualization products ESX and ESXi. With no surprise to me the majority of the patches are for ESX and relate to security flaws and vulnerabilities found within the Service Console.  Keep in mind these vulnerabilities in no-way mean the virtual machines being hosted are at risk. These patches are typically f...

The voting is nearly over for this years VMworld Sessions but I thought I would let you know that Luc Dekens (Lucd.info) and I have a session which you can help become a reality just by spending a few moments clicking on a button, if you have ever used a script by Luc and I and wondered how you could pay us back for the time we have spent (Cheques/cash/beer tokens are very welco...

A little while back I started a PowerPack which could be used in either PowerGUI or vEcoShell – the application formerly known as “The Virtualisation EcoShell or VESI, my PowerPack was a collection of the most used scripts from my site all laid out in a nice GUI format. Now why would you put a GUI back on top of the scripting, lets think about this… At the moment whe...

Making Any Mac into a Calendar and Contacts Server - HOWTO This tutorial describes how to use a couple of open source Apple projects to provide free synchronization of calendars and contacts. Interesting, but still under active development. MAC Address / WWN / Vendor Lookup - WintelGuy.com This tool is a handy way to lookup MAC addresses or Fibre Channel WWNs. Customizing the Cisco or IPSec VPN...