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VMware: vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 1

That time has come, when you upgrade vCenter 6.0.  Here are some quick simple steps to see this done. As always, its a good idea to have a backup before proceeding.  In my case I used a snapshot of my appliance. This was done by me connecting directly to the ESXi and creating a snapshot. […]

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System Center – Virtual Machine Manager Error (12700)

Creating several templates in SCVMM today I encountered the an error with the id of ‘12700’ with the message: Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the host operation on the s0106hvlab5.jermsmit.local server because of the error: ‘W10_64_jermsmit’ could not initialize. (Virtual machine ID B4B770E3-9DD7-4C3F-B2A5-36CA37151600) Not enough memory in the system to start the virtual machine W10_64_jermsmit with […]

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Tech Short: Change Password VMware vCenter 6

The day would come where I would need to change my password in vCenter… Today was that day; Thankfully vCenter places am informative notice of your expiring password. Here is how you can change your password using vCenter 6: Log into vCenter 6 Click Home. Click Administration. Click Single Sign-On > Users and Groups. Click the Users […]

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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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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 | Released

Weeks of waiting and its here at last. Q. What is it? A. RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) is a Windows Server component for remote management of other computers and server operating systems running Windows. Grab the tools here: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10  

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Tech Short Q&A: What is vCenter Single Sign-On For

What is vCenter Single Sign-On? vCenter Single Sign-On is a feature of VMware vCenter 5, 6 and future vCenter implementations that is an authentication broker which also creates security tokens providing a secure way of accessing your environments. This token exchange mechanism is far superior than the former requirement of each component authenticating separately with a directory service such […]