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Today I found my self looking for a way to add portgroups to a set of hosts in a cluster that have Standard switches.I found Chris Nakagaki’s post http://tech.zsoldier.com/2013/07/add-portgroupsvlans-to-vmware-standard.html that covered this completely.”Summary:Wrote a simple little script to insert a portgroup into a targeted vSwitch of all VM hosts in a […]

The new class of vExperts have been announced today by VMware.  I am happy to announce that Roger Lund and myself were once again selected as vExperts.  This is a huge honor and humbling to know that our peers in the field believe we represent VMware and virtualization n […]

I am proud to announce on vBrainstorm.com  and vTech411.com that I was selected to be one of the judges that will choose the 2014 EMC Elect!  I was selected as EMC Elect 2013 which was the inaugural year of the program.  Some of you may be asking what the […]

It’s Official, I am a 2011 vExpert. I want to Thank everyone for voting. I believe most of you know my story, and why I lead both a unofficial VMUG, and recently, a Official ( Minneapolis MN, with Rick @VMRICK ) VMUG.From the first time I played with Virtualization, […]

    Earlier on my other blog http://itblog.rogerlund.net , I posted a blog post on Dell DX object based storage, with regards to the hands on labs at Dell Storage Forum 2011.   Check it out at http://www.vbrainstorm.com/2011/06/dell-storage-forum-2011-dell-dx-object.html   Roger Lund

Here you go.PDFThanks to www.midwave.com Roger L.

  Check out my blog to see the new count down timer. http://itblog.rogerlund.net   I thought it would be a fun addition to my site.     Roger L.

viridity reached out to my to see if I would do a write up on their product. They indicated they will be at VMworld, and Wanted to share the product they have. I found it very interesting, and think it applies to a lot of us out there. […]

Fixed a time Issue I had on the Google calendar. Check it out if you want to meet up.     Roger L.

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We paid for Vmware support and I had an event. Nothing big but what the heck we paid for support. I created a ticket through the support portal and got a call back the same day. I talked with the tech and decided to postpone the call […]

Yes, I  am very behind on reading KB Articles. Here are a few that I saw, and wanted to link, I have the symptoms here, you’ll have to click the links for resolutions. Issues when vCenter Server and License Server are installed on ESX […]

I have been behind on my blog reading, so here are a few posts that I thought were worth the read. VMware vSphere Thin Provisioning by http://www.virtualpro.co.uk/ “I’ve recently been evaluating some of the new features in VMware vSphere to see what use […]

  As a follow up to vSphere Paravirtual SCSI testing , I ran the test for three minutes, and outputted to csv. http://educait.wikispaces.com/file/view/LSI_vmdk_3disk.csv http://educait.wikispaces.com/file/view/rdm_3disk.csv http://educait.wikispaces.com/file/view/paravirtualvmdk_3disk.csv http://educait.wikispaces.com/file/view/paravirtualrmd_3disk.csv   Next on to more testing.

  I updated my Wiki with Supported Virtualization products, this was a question I had at our First Local IT & Virtualization user group.   http://educait.wikispaces.com/SupportedVirtualizationProducts Here are links to info about the user group. http://rogerlunditblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/httpwwweducaitnet-launched-based-on.html http://rogerlunditblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/st-cloud-minnesotas-it-virtualization.html   http://centralmnit.com http://www.educait.net/

    I have gotten together with a couple of local IT administrator’s, and we started an IT & Virtualization user group. Central MN IT & Virtualization User Group. We meet for the first time, May 7th, at the St. Cloud Library in St. Cloud […]

  Jason Boche has taken the time to outline Idle Memory Tax in VMware ESX. Jason, I wanted to thank you for taking the time on this, and I am hoping you do not mind me quoting your Article. “ Memory over commit […]

Exchange 2003 Outgoing SMTP delivery issuesWe have had an Exchange 2003 mail server for a few years and have had great results without many big configuration changes, until now. Recently we added a new Qwest T-1 and changed our firewall to a Watchgaurd. After the change we have had […]

http://technodrone.blogspot.com has a write up on Converting a VM from A older version of Xen to VMware using the VMware Converter 4.0 titled : Converting a Linux Virtual Machine With an LVM He went through quite a process. Make sure to check it out. “ I […]

http://vmguy.com/wordpress/index.php posted his weekly Notable KB Articles from the week. “ 27 Articles new or updated this past week.  The first one is very relevant. We are experiencing issues with the knowledge base Verifying isolation mode usage in ThinApp […]

http://www.virtualpro.co.uk has a cool write up on building a ESX White Box. I know a lot of small shops that could find this very interesting, so I wanted to share this blog.   “ There have been a couple of postings recently by […]

  Some of our client devices have a need to do a daily reboot, and I didn’t feel like manly setting up a scheduled task on each device. I needed something I could run via login script or USB stick, that only takes a couple of seconds of […]

Christopher Kusek, Technology Evangelist http://www.pkguild.com posted a collection of Netapp related information. I am going to quote it here. Please refer to the source post for updates and changes. “ NetApp and Virtualization One Stop Shop! […]

  I was reading http://blog.fosketts.net/ ‘s article on Iomega and how EMC has thrown them a life line.  I saw them talk about Iomega’s ix2, and how it was HCL certified. ( http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?action=search&deviceCategory=san&productId=1&keyBasic=iomega&maxDisplayRows=50&key=&release[]=-1&datePosted=-1 )   I thought this was interesting, […]