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VMware Labs releases Proactive DRS Fling from last years Fling Contest 27 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
Last year, the VMware Labs team ran an Open Innovation contest where users could submit ideas for Flings that they would like to see get built. In addition to that, one lucky winner will be selected a...
Quick Tip: Minimum amount of memory to run the vCenter Server Appliance 20 Aug 2013 | 04:13 am
I thought this might have been common knowledge, but after chatting with a VMware colleague who recently rebuilt his home lab, I realized it may not be the case. The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is...
Flexible OVF deployments using Deployment Options (e.g. small, medium, large) 19 Aug 2013 | 08:33 pm
It is pretty common these days to see a vendor distribute their applications as a virtual appliance which pre-bundles both an operating system and their application instead of a stand alone installer ...
Quick Tip: Useful ovftool debugging options 16 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm
This morning I needed perform several OVF uploads using ovftool and provide that information to engineering to investigate some performance issues. I tend to error on the side of providing more inform...
Quick Tip: Marking an HDD as SSD or SSD as HDD in ESXi 15 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
This was a neat little trick that I picked up in one of our internal storage email distribution groups which I thought was quite interesting. Some of you may recall an article I wrote a few years back...
Quick Tip: Automate the export of a vCenter Orechstrator workflow using the CLI 14 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
Steve Jin recently wrote an article about vCenter Orchestrator REST APIs: Executing Workflow which reminded me of an interesting issue that I had faced several months back. I had just finished develop...
Ravello: An interesting solution using Nested Virtualization 9 Aug 2013 | 08:20 am
As many of you know, I am a huge fan of VMware Nested Virtualization and I am always interested to learn how customers and partners are using this technology to help enable them to solve interesting p...
Do I need to install both the vSphere CLI & vSphere SDK for Perl? 7 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
I received this question from one of our TAMs (Technical Account Managers) last week asking what is the difference between the vSphere CLI and the vSphere SDK for Perl and whether you need to install ...
Automate Enabling VM Storage Profiles Capability in vSphere 6 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
I recently had to rebuild one of my lab environments that consisted of a vCenter Server and several ESXi hosts and one of the capabilities I required was VM Storage Profiles. In a brand new vSphere en...
Does ESXi Support DDNS (Dynamic DNS)? 1 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
An interesting feature request that was raised internally was for ESXi to support DDNS (Dynamic DNS) which allows a host client to update it's DNS record when using a DHCP Server. In most environments...
