I’ve been using VMware ESX/vCenter/vSphere for some years now. I mean all the way back to 2.x.x and 1.x.x – and as such it’s rare […]
Back To Basics: Simple Guest Customization Scripting Example (Part 6)
Due to the innumerable reboots that operating systems like Windows 2012 R2 undergo, it can be difficult to know exactly when the deployment process has […]
vSoup Feeding Frenzy with Mr. Laverick #47
Last week I was very lucky to get a slot on the popular virtualization podcast “vSoup”. In case you don’t know it, its podcast hosted […]
Back To Basics: Uploading Sysprep to vCenter (Part 5)
Since Windows Vista, the SysPrep package has been “built-in” to Windows, and is generally to be located within C:\Windows\System32\sysprep. Prior to this change all previous […]
VMUGs in June, 2014
I’ve got a number of VMUGs in my bucket list for June, and all of them are in June. Trying to stick to my plan […]
Back To Basics: Template Convert to Virtual Machine (Part 4)
Once a VM has been converted to a template, it can be converted back to being a VM again. This will allow the administrator to […]
Back To Basics: Guest Customization from a Template (Linux) (Part3)
IMPORTANT: Whilst vSphere supports one of the widest range of guest operating systems available – that does not mean all OSes are supported for Guest […]
Back To Basics: Deploy a VM from a Template (Windows) (Part 2)
It’s possible to deploy a VM from template using the New Virtual Machine Wizard, and its also possible to right-click the template and also Deploy […]
Back To Basics: Clone/Creating/Converting VMs (Part 1)
Introduction to Creating and Deploying Templates One of the benefits of VMs is how easy they can be cloned – gone are the days of […]
VMworld 2014 Voting…
This year I haven’t submit a session to VMworld 2014. Never fear I will be there, either as co-speaker (assuming the session I’m helping with […]