By stu | January 26, 2010
Yes that’s right, I was very flattered to be asked to present at the next London VMUG and just couldn’t say no to Piglet (illustrious London VMUG co-ordinator). The more people there, the more nervous I am bound to be so let’s have a massive showing and try to give me a nervous breakdown! If [...]
By stu | January 18, 2010
I’ve been wanting to put up a post on ESXi security for some time now, and 2 recent posts have kicked me into action – this one from Scott Lowe about setting the root password on ESX and this announcement about the vSphere blogging contest . So have your caffeinated beverages and pizzas at the [...]
By stu | January 13, 2010
I’ve called this Part 1 because as I mess around more with Linux VM’s I have no doubt there will be more posts like this one. Don’t expect anything earth shattering in them either… this is all easily obtainable info, it wouldn’t surprise me if I get comments suggesting better ways to do what I [...]
One of the (many) things that bugs me about VMware Update Manager is the fact that I can’t specify to only pull down ESXi updates. I doubt there are many large enterprises that will run both fat and thin ESX in production for any length of time, I know I wouldn’t. And sure it’s “only” [...]
I don’t normally post about patch releases, but this one is important because it fixes the issue described in my post Why You Shouldn’t Update vCenter If Using ESXi… Yet!. This means that after applying the patch to ESXi 4, you can go right ahead with upgrading to vCenter 4.0 Update 1 without fear of [...]
