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vSphere 5.1i virtual machine – wanna move it,its powered off and can’t – what gives?

Posted on July 26, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Recently had an issue where i couldn’t migrate a powered off VM from one datastore to the other – the migrate option was grayed out (yep i could a scp but i was feeling lazy :)) – thing that tickled … Continue reading →

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When your vSphere VM’s need CPU cycles NOW!

Posted on June 14, 2013 by johncmorrissey

We had an interesting performance issue which reared its head recently. Environment Xenapp 6.5 environment. Hypervisor: ESXi 5.0 u2. Noticed consistent latencies on applications across the board, these latencies would in play no matter how “close” the users’ were to … Continue reading →

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ESXi builds and encrypted passwords

Posted on April 26, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Recently one of my co-admins was looking to streamline their esxi build process, was asking about what was required relating to password encryption. Tested by adding the below: %post section of the kickstart: %post –interpreter=bash /usr/sbin/useradd -m -d /home/T1 -p … Continue reading →

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