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vCloud Lab – Planning

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  With the release of vSphere 5.1, comes a new version of vCloud as well.  I thought this would be a great chance to put up a vCloud lab at home, and to share the steps for others who want to learn the setup and management of vCloud, but don’t have a lot of physical [...]

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Upcoming Webinar – The Perfect Storm: Bloggers and Virtualization

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  Webinar: April 18 @ 12pm Eastern   Join Eric Siebert, noted blogger, author, VMware vExpert and the proprietor of vSphere-land.com where he has been running his popular top blog voting for 4 years that determines the most popular bloggers in the VMware vUniverse. Join us online and learn: How the blogger community has evolved [...]

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Training Resources – TrainSignal

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  *Disclaimer: While TrainSignal is sponsoring  my blog, the views expressed in this post are my own. Recently, TrainSignal revamped their website, and delivery method of training classes.  Previously, training was available by ordering a specific class, and receiving some DVDs – either physically, or as a download. They have stepped up the game, and [...]

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SSH can’t be disabled on ESXi server

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  This is something I have come across a couple of times, but yet couldn’t find a lot on it when I searched – so I thought I would add to the search results. Randomly, I will get an error when I go to stop the SSH service on an ESXi 5 server: “Call ‘HostServiceSystem.Stop’ [...]

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HP P2000 G3 and VAAI with vSphere 5.0 and 5.1

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  HP’s P200 has been around a little while, and has had a bit of improvements done with firmware updates.  While adding VAAI support to a P2000 is a little older news, I thought I would still write about it since I recently upgraded one and want to point out the differences for ESXi 5.0 [...]

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