I suck at scripting. I have this big vSphere PowerCLI poster sitting next to my desk that I’m only now learning to reference. But PowerShell is quickly becoming my go-to tool of choice to quickly find out how my vSphere infrastructure is doing. To that end, Quest software released an awesome get-your-feet-wet-with-PowerShell tool called PowerGUI, [...]
A curious thing happened on the way to finishing this post by Duncan Epping: I started the think that VMware’s High-Availability solution will actually come to be something that we can rely on. I could fill a lot of column space with the issues we’ve had in trying to protect our VMs using HA, and [...]
Forbes Guthrie has released another vReference card – this time, updated with juicy 4.1 info. If you work in vSphere and don’t already use one of his incredibly useful previous vReference releases, you owe it to yourself to download the vSphere 4.1 version. Also available are Virtual Infrastructure 3 cards for those of you not [...]
Seems that Scott Lowe has shelved his plans for a follow-up to Mastering VMware vSphere 4 – a book that sits, dog-eared, on my desk permanently. While working on that project Scott has amassed some really useful links to various resources and articles, and posted them today on his blog. Excellent reading for planning a [...]
So this is not really news, but is now big official news: the 4.1 release of vSphere is the last supported version of ESX. VMware is finally dropping the Service Console. Moving forward, ESXi will be the core hypervisor technology at the center of VMware’s virtualization strategy (for now). Can’t say I disagree, especially if [...]