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OVF Deployment Issue Ubuntu Snappy 15.04-stable (5 cloud)

When you have time, you do something. Tonight I was headed over the Ubuntu site to grab me the latest version because I was thinking of installing OpenStack when I noticed on their landing page and noticed “Get Ubuntu Core” ; yes something new. But where is my Raspberry Pi? No worries they have OVF […]

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HowTo: Export VMware vSphere Sessions

I moved myself to a new workstation and followed my previous steps to export my putty sessions.  This time around I am exporting my Virtual Infrastructure Client settings From the run prompt (shortcut keys: WinKey+R) enter regedit,, this opens the registry editor Locate the following branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VMware On the File menu, click Export In File name, enter […]

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Back on vCenter in my home lab

Oh yeah; anyone else have the warm fuzzy feeling right now; Hashtags: #‎VMware‬ ‪#‎vCenter‬ ‪#‎ESXi‬   All in my home lab. Once again I have the management capabilities over systems that I prefer. VMware vCenter 6 is awesome and I am in love with the web interface Next — Storage upgrade 3.0. That will be 16TB […]

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Power Off & On VMware Guest with a Scheduled Task

  Using Windows task scheduler you can schedule power off and on events for guest systems running in VMware vCenter or a standalone ESXi host. My steps: Create a basic task – give it a name and description (optional) Choose when you want this task to stat Select the start date and time Choose “Start a […]

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI – Power Off & On Guests

Looking for a method to restart a non-persistent environment in ESXi or vCenter, I was able to use PowerCLI to issue the commands needed. Originally I was looking to automate the recovery of a snapshot when it dawned on me that a non-persistent disk would facilitate the same thing.  However I would need to power off the server […]

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Quest to automate snapshots in ESXi

I am looking for a way to run a instance and have it revert back to its snapshot every 24 hours. I started toying around with the idea to use the vim-cmd features however there doesn’t seem to be a way to set a task for this. So far here are the steps I used […]