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London VMUG April 2016 (Part 2)

Apr 18, 2016 · 3 min read · vmug veeam vrealize vmware pernixdata nimble-storage vbeers 10zig #lonvmug ·

Last week was the second London VMware User Group of 2016- and I came away with so many notes I couldn’t justify just squeezing them all into one post. So, check out Part 1 here if you haven’t already and what to know what happened in the morning.
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London VMUG April 2016 (Part 1)

Apr 15, 2016 · 4 min read · vmug veeam vrealize vmware pernixdata nimble-storage #lonvmug ·

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Thursday saw another trip to TechUK for the second London VMware Users Group of the year. It was, yet again, a very educational and entertaining community driven event with sessions covering a whole range of topics from enterprise scale implementations of hardware and software right down to the nitty-gritty of running …
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ESXi Host Web Client

Mar 26, 2016 · 2 min read · vmware esxi xbox ·

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A few days ago I tweeted about managing my ESXi HomeLab from the Xbox. Whilst this is a bit of a novelty (I’m holding out for the Minecraft ESXi plugin fling), it highlights the management possibilities that the new HTML-based (rather than Flash or Windows based) client creates. In addition to working via the Edge …

Virtual Machine Backups with Veeam

Mar 21, 2016 · 4 min read · vmware veeam ·

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So, I’ve got my Home Lab on a NUC setup and running the VMware ESXi 6 Hypervisor. Before I get too carried away “experimenting” I want to be a good sysadmin and ensure that I can backup (and restore) my Virtual Machines.
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Home Lab Upgrade to 6.0u2

Mar 18, 2016 · 1 min read · vmware esxi powercli ·

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VMware have released vSphere 6.0 Update 2 - this brings with it many new features, but amongst the most exciting for my home lab was the host-based web client. I no longer need to rely on the functionality of the traditional Windows application to manage my virtual environment. Here’s how I installed it:
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Home Lab VPN Connection

Feb 15, 2016 · 3 min read · vmware openvpn esxi ·

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I wanted to be able to connect to my new home lab from off-premises (that’s a technical way of saying “when I’m not at home”). My solution to this was to setup an Ubuntu VM running OpenVPN, following the comprehensive instructions here and configuring my home broadband router to forward UDP port …
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Check out the vBlog Database

Feb 13, 2016 · 1 min read · blogs vmware ·

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I’m proud to say that this blog has been added to the vBlog Database, an index of over 400 virtualisation related blogs maintained by Andreas Lesslhumer at running-system.com.
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Installing ESXi on the NUC

Feb 12, 2016 · 2 min read · intel nuc vmware esxi ·

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Welcome to Part 2 of my Home Lab series (it’s now twice as long!) where I install the Hypervisor. The 6th Generation Intel NUC hardware is all assembled and working, so now it’s time to put some software into the mix.
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VMUG London January 2016

Jan 27, 2016 · 3 min read · vmug vrealize 10zig vmware bitdefender tegile vbeers #lonvmug ·

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The New Year brought a new venue and new committee members to the London VMUG meeting, now held at TechUK near Fleet Street. It was another great event, an informative and educational presentation of the latest and greatest in the VMware ecosystem without anyone pushing too hard for sales.
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PowerCLI Snippet- Total Memory Allocation

Jan 20, 2016 · 1 min read · esxi vcenter vmware powercli ·

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PowerCLI Snippet- Total Memory Allocation

This PowerShell one liner looks at all the powered on Virtual Machines in a vCenter estate and returns the total memory allocated, rounded to the nearest GB.
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