Viewing Role Assignments Once a role, custom or otherwise is in use – its possible to view the assignment from >Home >Roles and selecting the […]
Back To Basics: Creating Custom Roles
As we saw earlier the “Virtual Machine User (Sample)” role allows for basic actions on the VM such as power on/off and opening a console. […]
Back To Basics: Role-based Access Controls (Intro & Creating)
Introduction In small environments many organisation feel little pressure to excessive “delegate” responsibility within vCenter – with many being able to use individual user accounts […]
Back at my desk….
Well, I can’t believe it so long since I blogged on mikelaverick.com – my last post was almost a month ago. Anyway, I have my […]
Back To Basics: Creating and Deploying Templates with PowerCLI – Part 7
Converting a VM to a Template: Converting an existing VM to a template is a single one-liner PowerCLI command using the cmdlet Set-VM. The cmdlet […]
The EUC Book and UNICEF Grand Total: $12,835
With the release of Horizon View 6.0, myself and Barry Coombs have decided to close our EUC Book project. The EUC book is now available […]
Back To Basics: The Things you forget to remember…
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 […]