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Welcome to the New vinternals.com!

Still a little rough around the edges, but we’ll get there… the import feature worked a treat although I guess any direct links to imported posts will be gone forever. Oh well, c’est la vie!

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Getting from Nice to Cannes / Cannes to Nice

VMworld Europe 2009 is only 1 week away, woohoo! I’m certainly getting pretty excited about it, so I thought I’d post up some info for anyone who is getting into Nice outside of the VMware provided bus times and travelling on their own dime or on restricted company dime (times are tough, I suspect most [...]

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VMworld Europe 2009 – "vinternals" Will _Not_ Be There…

… but Shyam and Stu from big-european-investment-bank-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-vinternals will be. Why am I saying this? Because it would be irresponsible of us not to have some dicussions with various vendors regarding their roadmaps and other potentially sensitive information during the course of the event. We completely understand that such discussions are not possible with media-blogger-types. So [...]

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ESXi Health Status Inequality – HP vs Dell

Ok, so I’m pretty sure most of you know I’ve been haxing around with ESXi for quite some time, but I only recently noticed the difference in what you see in vCenter Health Status depending on which hardware vendor you use. I’m sure you also all know that I’m a massive fan of HP, which [...]

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PowerCLI Mastery, Volume 3

Phew, Volume 1 and Volume 2 down, lets wrap this monster up. See, I told you I wasn’t going to leave you hanging for weeks to nail through all this. So, picking up right from where we left off. We need to perform a configuration operation on an ESX host. Of the available properties we’re [...]

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PowerCLI Mastery, Volume 2

Thought I was going to drag this out in some scandalous attempt to keep the viewers coming back week after week? Actually, wish I had thought of that before just now. Anyways, let’s continue. If you haven’t read Volume 1 in the series, go do so now. I’ll wait for you. So continuing on, let’s [...]

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PowerCLI Mastery, Volume 1

OK, this one has been a looooooooooong time coming. I’ve been meaning to take a shot at conveying the advanced features of the VI SDK as applied to PowerShell for quite some time now. When Carter corrected me some months ago with regards to what is and isn’t possible with PowerCLI (in the first statelesx [...]

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