HRVMUG Meeting – June 10, 2014 – Be There!
The next Hampton Roads VMUG meeting will be held on June 10, 2014 from 6-8 PM at the ODU Tri-Cities Building in Room 2013.
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vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)
Hyperconverged, Virtualization, VMware, Citrix, Datacenter Administration, and more…
vCoffee Links Issue #4 – 5/19/2014
vCoffee Links is a regular feature on vHersey.com. vCoffee Links features news and links of interest from the past week or so. If you have something interesting to add please submit it in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @herseyc.
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AutoLab Video Series Part 4 – vCenter Build
In this video the vCenter Server AutoLab VM is built using the AutoLab automation and the ESXi hosts are added to vCenter inventory. Networking and storage is also configured on the ESXi hosts using AutoLab automation.
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AutoLab Video Series Part 3 – Building the DC and Hosts
This video covers building the Domain Controller (DC) and ESXi hosts using the AutoLab automation. The Domain Controller provides the Active Directory infrastructure, the PXE boot infrastructure, the DNS services, and the database services for the AutoLab environment. The hosts will become the ESXi servers for the AutoLab environment.
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vCoffee Links Issue #3 – Wednesday 5/7/2014
vCoffee Links is a regular feature on vHersey.com. vCoffee Links features news and links of interest from the past week or so. If you have something interesting to add please submit it in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @herseyc.
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Adding Disk Space to a VMware Windows Guest
It is very easy to add capacity to a virtual hard disk on Windows guest. For a Windows guest running Microsoft Windows 2008 or newer it can be done without any special utilities while the virtual machine is running.
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AutoLab Video Series Part 2 – Populating the NAS Build Share
The video covers populating the NAS Build share with the software needed by the AutoLab environment. The video also covers setting up the automation.ini file to automatically install the vCenter server and add the hosts to vCenter inventory.
Read MoreESXi on Cisco UCS C-Series Error – Bootbank cannot be found at path ‘/bootbank’
I have run across this issue several times when running ESXi on Cisco UCS C-Series servers. ESXi is installed on SD cards connected to the Cisco FlexFlash controller. A fault occurs on the Flex Flash controller and the SD cards become inaccessible.
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vCoffee Links Issue #2 – Tuesday 4/22/2014
vCoffee Links is a weekly feature on vHersey.com. vCoffee Links features news and links of interest from the past week or so. If you have something interesting to add please submit it in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @herseyc.
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AutoLab Video Series Part 1 – Initial Setup
In this first video I provide an overview of the PC I am using to run my VMware Workstation AutoLab environment, how to obtain AutoLab from labguides.com, explain how to configure VMware Workstation for AutoLab, and how to power on and access the build share on the AutoLab NAS VM.
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vCoffee Links Issue #1 – Monday 4/14/2014
vCoffee Chat will be a weekly feature on vHersey.com. vCoffee Chat will feature news and links of interest from the past week or so. If you have something interesting to add please submit it in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @herseyc.
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