Category Archives: vmware

The Mini ESXi 4 Portable Server

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Jon Owings

Special thanks to Kevin Miller (@kevin_miller), for making sure I didn’t burn up anything and running out to Fry’s to get a new CPU when the orginal we ordered turned out to be not compatible. List of the material used … Continue reading →

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vExpert 2010 – a High Five from VMware

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Jon Owings

Last Friday night I received an email from John Troyer at VMware inviting me to the vExpert 2010 program. It is an honor to be included with such a great list of people. I never know how to respond to be complimented. … Continue reading →

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Ask Good Questions

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jon Owings

This happened a long time ago. I arrived at a customer site to install View Desktop Manager (may have been version 2). This was before any cool VDI sizing tools like Liquidware Labs. I am installing ESX and VDM I … Continue reading →

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Random Half Thoughts While Driving

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Jon Owings

So I often have epiphany teasers while driving long distances or stuck in traffic. I call them teasers because they are never fully developed ideas and often disappear into thoughts about passing cars, or yelling at the person on their cell phone going 15 … Continue reading →

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Recap of 2009

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Jon Owings

Thank you to everyone out there that gave any attention to this little blog. I tried to supply new information where I could and also document my journey trying to improve at the esxcfg- commands. In 2009 the traffic increased … Continue reading →

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Storage Design and VDI

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Jon Owings

Recently I have spent time re-thinking certain configuration scenarios and asking myself, “Why?” If there is something I do day to day during installs is this still true when it comes to vSphere? or will it still be true when … Continue reading →

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VMware View – Repurpose your Existing PC’s as Thin Clients

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Jon Owings

I was looking for last couple weeks for a good way to re-purpose PC’s as thin clients to ease the investment in VDI. I stumbled across this PDF from VMware and I thought it was great. I would tend towards … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands: esxcfg-pciid,rescan,resgrp,swiscsi,upgrade, vmhbadevs

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Jon Owings

I have been writing on ESX command line stuff for far too long now. I just need to finish it before ESX 5 comes out with no command line support and my year long series is rendered obsolete before it … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-nas

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Jon Owings

esxcfg-nas Standard use of this command is to add or list your NFS mounts. List: esxcfg-nas –l Add: esxcfg-nas –a –o <host> -s <share> <name> Not much more I can say. A little more detail here: http://b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm A thread in … Continue reading →

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ESX Commands – esxcfg-mpath

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jon Owings

It has been almost 1 year since I started looking at the esxcfg-* commands. It initially came as a look at the first part of the Enterprise Administration Exam’s Blueprint very first bullet point. In that post I talked about … Continue reading →

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