Next week sees me heading up to my home area of the North-East of England for the next NE VMUG. This VMUG marks a change […]
Back To Basics: Storage Vendor Plug-ins: Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager (VSM)
This post is long overdue. It was originally written when I still had my colocation lab back in about Feb of this year. Back then […]
I don’t normally do politics…
Anyone who knows my blog, knows I tend askew using it as platform for expressing my polticial opinons. I recognise that folks who come here, […]
Back To Basics: MOTD and Terminating Sessions…
Sending Messages of the Day Users It is possible to send a message to the users of the Web Client each time they log in […]
HP ML350e: Upgrade from ESX 5.5 (133182) to ESX 5.5 U1 (1746018)
Today, I had wont to upgrade my ESX 5.5 installation to ESX 5.5 U1b. No particular reason, I just thought an upgrade was a bit […]
Back To Basics: Roles – Viewing, Removing, and No Access Privilege
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 […]