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Mini Whitebox for ESXi and Shared storage

I've created a mini Whitebox (based on Mini-ITX board, which has 2 roles:ESXi hostShared Storage via Nexenta VSA You can find the whole serie here: Homelab Nexenta on ESXi – as a VMBuilding NAS Box...

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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 5.1 – Executing Scripts with the Windows...

There are a few components to executing scripts in a Windows Guest OS which I’m going to cover in this post. Those items are:Windows Guest AgentCustom PropertiesWindows Guest AgentThe Windows Guest...

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vmwPAD version 1.2.7 released

The following features have been added: 1. Recent Inventory tree state per session stored.2. Inventory search by name with suggestions. The app link:...

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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 5.1 – Automated Installation Of Windows Guest...

In this article I’m gong to walk through automating the installation  of the Windows Guest Agent.  There are advantages to automating the  guest agent installation.  One advantage is instead of...

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HP MoonShot – Hardware is catching up with the cloud

HP is taking cloud computing to the next level with their MoonShot servers.  Cloud isn’t just software anymore.Now I don’t know if HP MoonShot can solve all of today’s datacenter  issues, but it surely...

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HP Moonshot 1500 software defined capable compute servers

 Riding the current software defined data center (SDC) wave being led by the likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by VMware via their acquisition of Nicira last year,...

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Conversation with Justin Stottlemyer of Shutterfly and object storage discussion

Now also available via This is a new episode in the continuing StorageIO industry trends and perspectives pod cast series (you can view more episodes or shows along with other audio and video content...

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Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part I)

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the first (looking at...

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Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part II S3)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the second (looking at...

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Cloud conversations: AWS EBS, Glacier and S3 overview (Part III)

 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the third (tying the...

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[VMware] vOpenData Project

VMwareの仮想インフラに関する面白いプロジェクトが公開されました。"vOpenData"という名のプロジェクトで、現在利用中のvSphereのインフラ情報を提供してもらい、提供されたデータの統計値を公開するものです。このプロジェクトは、100%コミュニティ主導&利用者(管理者)の任意でデータを提供してもらうというもので、集まったデータはvCenter、Hosts、LUNなどのデータごとに集計され...

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Email Lists Buying Services

Welcome to Quote Bean’s Email Lists Buying Services! You will find everything you need in these pages to help you make the best email marketing buying decision for your business or organisation.  Start...

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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 5.1 – Installing Self-Service Portal

vCAC comes with a self-service portal outside the standard portal.  The self-service portal is included with the vCAC-51-Extensibiliy  installation files. The reason it is included with the...

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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 5.1 – Installing the Workflow Designer

The VMware vCloud Automation Center Designer is a great tool that  allows you to modify pre-built workflow stubs that are included with the  designer. These workflow stubs allow you add custom machine...

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Join the games!

The VMware Users Group has put out a challenge for fun and prizes - as well as knowledge about the cloud. See how much you know and have done to become a Cloud Expert?http://www.cloudcredibility.com/...

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Why It's Worth Looking at SharePoint Alternatives

SharePoint promises to be the  collaboration platform for a new era of business. It brings with it a  set of features that make it sound powerful enough to run your entire  business, and yet it rarely...

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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 5.1 – Workflow Designer Walk-Through – Add...

Ok so in this article we are going to create our first workflow that executes a powershell script that adds a computer account to active directory in whatever OU you would like it to be placed in. Our...

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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 5.1 – Creating Relational Drop Down Fields

One of the great benefits of vCloud Automation Center is it's Self-Service capabilities and although vCAC has a great Self-Service experience right out of the gate most organizations are going to want...

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vCloud Automation Center - vCAC 5.1 - Enable Connect Using SSH

You may have noticed on the security tab of a blueprint there is an option you can enable to "Connect using RDP or SSH".  You may have also noticed when you provision a Windows Server you see a...

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vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 5.1 – Example CMDB Integration

I keep getting asked for an example of integrating into a CMDB. The challenge with this is which CMDB, Asset, or Ticketing system do you create an example around. They are all very different and most...

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