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VMware / vCenter: Terms, Acronyms, Glossary {Tag your IT}

Recently I have taken, failed later taken and passed my VMware 2V0–620 – vSphere 6 Foundations Exam and passed. I am now in the process of practicing and studying for proctored exam(s) for the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Certificate. With that there are many terms, acronyms, and Glossary items I will need […]

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PowerCLI: HowTo Remove Floppy Drive From {All} Powered Off VM`s

The following simple script will iterate though your vCenter environment and remove the floppy disk from VMware guest machines that are in a powered off state. Script text: I used Windows PowerShell ISE Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned #may require running as administrator Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core Connect-VIServer -Server ‘your.server.here’ $off = Get-VM | where {$_.powerstate -eq “PoweredOff”} $floppy = […]

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Restore of Checkpoint Fails with “The following hotfixes seem to be missing”

Ran into a slight snag when attempting to restore a production backup into a VM(*VMware*) image of Checkpoint R77.30. I was using the Gaia WebUI to restore image returns a message: “The following hotfixes seem to be missing”. The message points me to a log file located under /tmp/ which indicates missing updates to the firewall […]

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Installing vCenter Appliance 6.5

With the general availability (GA) release of vSphere 6.5 I decided to upgrade my home lab and learning environment to the latest and greatest of VMware’s product. Not only for learning, but for running the systems I use daily in my lab. Preparation work: Download and Install ESXi 6.5 to my new lab hardware – […]

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vSphere 6.5 release notes & download links

  This weekend I had the fun of getting my hands and feet wet with installs of VMware’s ESXi 6.5 and vCenter 6.5. The links below should be useful to any of you looking to learn about the new release and download bits to install. Release Notes: vSphere / ESXi 6.5 vSphere Client (HTML5) 6.5 vSphere […]