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A Great Outlook Tool
I’m always in search for better ways to use Outlook more efficiently. My coworker recently brought to my attention a neat little tool designed to work within Outlook called Xobni. It’s main purpose is to network your contacts and messages with outlook into one consolidated and easy to use sidebar within Outlook. [...]
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VMWare: Script to Apply ESX Patches
Here’s a basic script for applying patches on ESX 3.0.X systems. This has not been tested on ESX 3.5 because Patch Management is supposed to be built into VC. I will update once I am able to test the script on 3.5. I recommend that no VMs are running on [...]
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Novell to acquire PlateSpin
If you have not heard by now, Novell has announced that they will acquire a company called PlateSpin. For those of you not familiar with PlateSpin, they are a software company that specializes in virtualization monitoring and virtualization portability through their main products, PowerRecon and Power Convert. Personally I have worked very [...]
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VMWare Lab Manager: Installation Tip
When installing VMWare Lab Manager 2.5, the first thing that runs is a validation check of your system to ensure that the installation will go smoothly. If any errors or warnings are present, the installation will not continue. In certain testing scenarios, you may want to bypass these checks. Here is the [...]
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VMWare Workstation Latency Issue Part 2
I have not given up on my quest to simulate latency using the the built in LAN configations of VMWare’s workstation. In researching the problem, I noticed that VMWare had released a new build of the workstation, 6.0.1 -build-55017.
Here is the complete list of the updates for 6.0.1:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html#601
Other then the fact that no [...]
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VMWare Workstation Latency Issue
While working on another blog entry involving latency thresholds with ESX and VirtualCenter, I came across a disturbing issue with VMWare workstation and their built in packet loss emulator. I came to the conclusion that it does not simulate any packet loss no matter what % you set it at.
Environment
- VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 build-45731
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VMWare and Exchange
Virtualizing Exchange is a discussion I have had with almost every customer I’m in front of. Some of the customers are open to virtualization of Exchange while others are completely against it. For the most part, the debate about using VMWare in production has pretty much subsided in the favor of VMWare. Exchange is the [...]
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Great NBU Best Practices Write Up
As I’m working on my first recap post of EMC World, my buddy has posted an excellent ( and at times humorous) post regarding NBU best practices. Please have a look.
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