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Repurpose Old PC’s For VMware View as VMware View Clients
Do you have old PC’s that still function fine but have been replaced by the “3 year” hardware refresh? If you do, why not repurpose then and use them as VMware View Clients. There is now a free linux based solution available which can be configured online via web interface. Take a look at this […]
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Citrix XenDesktop Machine Creation Services Deep-Dive
So… with vmware View, you have a connection broker that connects to vCenter that connects to the ESX hosts using vSphere API which then tells whichever ESX host to build whichever linked-clones from the replica-vm to which ever destination datastore they are supposed to be on… right? :) Well… with Citrix XenDesktop Machine Creation Services (MCS) […]
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List Hostname, Lun Name, Lun Policy, and Path State using PowerCLI
So the other day, EMC wanted to verify that all luns on my ESX host were using the same Lun Policy as a result of an open ticket that I had with them. To do that, I decided to use the PowerCLI toolkit. This is what I came up with. $lunpathinfo = @() foreach ($vmhost […]
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How to find virtual machine name from the MAC address using PowerCLI
So, after the mess this week… I had an IP conflict on my vCenter test server… Luckily Server 2008 told me the MAC of the offending machine. Which just happened to have a VMware Mac :) I busted out the trusty PowerCLI and this is what I came up with! $report =@() Get-VM | Get-View […]
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