Vagrant Series » Multi-Machine Environments (Part 6)
Vagrant is neat if you need a whip up a machine to quickly test a script or check compatibility on an operating system that is different than what you normally run. And the value of that isn’t to be...
View ArticlePowerCLI – Configure Syslog for All Hosts
Here’s a quick bit of PowerCLI to configure syslog server on all hosts, place each hosts logs in a unique directory, and then enable the firewall exception to allow it to be used. This will do every...
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Quick Tip: Cannot delete ISO on VMware datastore
There’s a VMware KB article that talks about trying to delete a file from a VMFS datastore, only to find that it’s locked by a particular ESXi host. The article walks through identifying which host as...
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Backing up vPostgres Database
Something I have learned over my career as a consultant is to back up everything before performing an upgrade, and then back it up again another way There’s nothing worse than an upgrade going sideways...
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My 3 Big VMworld Goals from 2014
Last year at VMworld 2014, I had some fantastic experiences and met heaps of great people (some of them are the kind of people who talk funny and use words like ‘heaps!’). I found myself challenged by...
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