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 […]
Back To Basics: Managing Virtual Machines Snapshots (PowerCLI)
Creating a Snapshot: Creating a snapshot can be done using the New-Snapshot cmdlet which supports flags for capturing the memory contents, and also quiescing disk […]