vBrownbag
vNoob at vBrownbag
Hey Everyone! I am very excited to announce that I am going to be doing some blog posts for the guys over at vBrowbag. I know what you are thinking, as I always do; “But what is going to happen Read more…
PowerCLI
Finding VMware Datastores by their NAA name with PowerCLI
VMware events generally do a pretty decent job of letting you know what is going in an enviroment… however sometimes the event just doesn’t give you nearly enough information. Great, alright so one of our datastores/Luns is having latency issues. Read more…
PowerCLI
Shrinking VMDK files with PowerCLI
Update 2014/09/15: Several People have had issues with this working recently, and I can no longer seem to get it to work as well either. I think there may have been a change to how VMware addresses the vmdk Read more…
PowerCLI
Changing VM IP Addresses with PowerCLI
Sometimes VMs need to have their IP changed. And sometimes you waited to long to change the IP and you can no longer access your VM. There could be any number of reasons for this to happen, however when it Read more…
vCenter
Changing vCenter’s DB User and Password
Changing the vCenter Database username and password isn’t a difficult task, although it very quickly becomes a bit convoluded. This is because you can’t just make the change in one place. It is made in several. To start and a Read more…
VMware
vNoob at VMWorld Wrap-Up
Alright, SO I kind of got caught up in VMWorld in a big way. I had no idea how freaking busy I would be, and I didn’t even make it to half the sessions I signed up for. I got Read more…
VMware
vNoob at VMWorld Day 1
Monday was the official first day of the conference, or atleast it was when the sessions started. Being my first time at VMWorld, I didn’t realize how much running around to sessions and checking schedules and whatnot there would be, Read more…
Uncategorized
vNoob at VMWorld 2012 Day .75
Sunday was a pretty interesting day. After waking up a bit late, since there wasn’t much going on I head down to check in to the conference and check out the Hand’s on Labs(HOLs). This however turned out to be Read more…
VMware
vNoob at VMWorld2012 Day .5
Hey Everyone! So my goal is to put a post up, kind of like a journal post each day chronicling my experience. I also have delusions of doing a live blog during one of the sessions, but that one is probably Read more…
VMware
My VMWorld2012 Schedule
It’s time for the obligatory VMWorld Schedule. But first, I wanted to share a quick script I used to put my schedule in this format. When exporting your schedule from the VMWorld site, you get a csv. This is great Read more…