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VMWare vForum London 2014

Jun 13, 2014 · 4 min read · vmware vforum ·

Earlier this week I attended the VMWare vForum in London. I’d missed last years, but it was good to return to Wembley Stadium- especially on the eve of the World Cup.
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PowerShell snippet- Finding XP and Server 2003 VMs

Apr 15, 2014 · 2 min read · microsoft windows vmware powercli powershell ·

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PowerShell snippet- Finding XP and Server 2003 VMs

Some PowerShell to find all the VMs in an ESX environment which are powered on and running Windows XP or Server 2003.
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PowerCLI without certificates

Nov 18, 2013 · 1 min read · powercli vcenter vmware powershell ·

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When using VMware PowerCLI to communicate with an uncertified vSphere server a number of warning messages appear upon connection.
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VMware Forum 2011 - London

Jun 16, 2011 · 1 min read · vmware ·

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A couple of pictures from yesterday’s [VMware Forum in London]. In the last few years the event has been held at Chelsea Football Club and the ExCeL Centre. This year it was held at Wembley Stadium.

Shutting down a Virtual Machine using PowerCLI

Jun 7, 2011 · 1 min read · powercli vmware ·

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VMware PowerCLI allows us to shutdown a guest operating system on a virtual machine (assuming VMTools are installed) but the command to do this- Shutdown-VMGuest -returns straight away. In a script we may wish to wait for the VM to power down before continuing, this can be done as follows.
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License error connecting ESXi server to vCenter

Jun 15, 2010 · 1 min read · esxi vcenter vmware ·

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Yesterday I was connecting up an ESXi Virtual Host which has been running in standalone mode for a while to vCenter. The host has recently been upgraded to a VSphere 4 Essentials Plus License. When trying to setup the connection so the host could be managed by the vCenter server I received the following error message: …