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Q3 Wrap Up - Life is a whirlwind

Those of you that read this blog with any sort of frequency probably realize that I tend to produce more install/configure or break/fix type posts than anything else. This post is a departure from that paradigm, at least for a little while. Life has been crazy lately, so

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VMware Fusion 6.0 - Hung Resuming VM

I haven't blogged in ages and I have lots to share in a more thought thorough post - but for now, a quick fix. Twice now I have run into this problem on my Windows 8 VM in Fusion 6 so I figured it's time to share this with the

Auto Deploy

Varrow Madness 2014 - Auto Deploy, Image Profiles, and Host Profiles Slide Deck

Another Varrow Madness is behind us, and the feeling is bittersweet. So much fun and such great content, but I would be lying if I didn't say that we all look forward to it every year. It was a huge success with a great speaker, Shawn Achor, check out his

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PernixData FVP 1.5 Reinstall

One of my favorite things to do is try to squeeze as much performance out of my home lab without buying more expensive gear or generating excessive amounts of heat since I already have space and cooling issues in my 15x15 office at home (yay townhouse). To that end, PernixData

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PEX Recap - Time for VCDX!

On the 14th I returned from VMware PEX in San Francisco, California and man, what a trip. First of all if you haven't been to San Francisco, the city itself is worth the trip. Extremely hilly, but full of delicious food, great coffee, wine, the arts, you name it. I

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vSphere 5.5 Web Client Console - Works in Windows not in OSX - vCenter Storage Appliance

Quick post cause my googling didn't point me in the right direction but as usual Jason Nash did. Had an issue with the vSphere 5.5 web client on the VCSA in my lab where it would launch from a Windows machine but not from an OSX machine even with

Certification

My VCAP-DCA experience

On December 3rd of last year I took the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 - Data Center Administration exam. For those of you that know me, I thought for sure I had failed it for sure. I didn't finish all the questions, I wasn't 100% sure I had done the

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VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices won't start - vCenter 5.1

I ran into an interesting issue at the tail end of a project not to long ago. Updated a customer's vCenter and his Hosts from 4.1 to 5.1, which amazingly enough went off without a hitch. We were about to head out when I realized that the Management

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You guys are gonna love this - vCenter 5.1 SSO Password Recovery Using SQL

Hey all, as per my last post I tested altering the password in the SSO DB and it worked! Watch the below video for instructions on how to get it done: from on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/) Always back up your database before modifying it directly if you are inexperienced

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SQLing my way around the "Authorization Exception" Domain Logon Error in vSphere 5.1

Here's the situation. A customer had some AD issues related to botched DCs that were incorrectly P2V'd for whatever reason. As a result the customer had to open a trouble ticket with Microsoft and forcibly remove the DCs from AD as DCPROMO was not working properly. All then seemed to

Horizon

Frozen \ Hung Console - VMware vSphere 5.1 - Horizon View 5.2

Ran across an interesting issue this week and thought I would share the solution since I was not able to easily find anything via Google.Shout out to @thombrown for helping me figure this one out. Basically, what would happen was that on one specific pool, if a user was

Citrix

vSphere 5.1 VMware Tools Upgrade on XenDesktop Streamed VM (PVS 6.1) - Part II

Background First off, sorry for the delay folks. I have been getting a ton of positive feedback on part 1 and to be honest I just have not had time to blog like I used to. I am doing my best to make sure that I am more diligent about

Citrix

vSphere 5.1 VMware Tools Upgrade on XenDesktop Streamed VM (PVS 6.1) - Part I

Intro Part of my job as Lab Manager is something that Sysadmins across the world have to deal with - routine maintenance. It's been a while since we rolled out vSphere 5.1 in the lab and we just upgraded our hosts to so I figured it was about time

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PCIe Parallel Port Passthrough w/ VMware Workstation 9

My neighbor Dave works for they are a small shop out of Sparta, TN and their infrastructure is very minimal since they don't really have a dedicated IT Pro. The other day they asked me where to find a hardware capable of running Windows 98. Needless to say I was

Vcloud

vCloud Director Eval pt1

Recently, I've become interested in researching private cloud stack platforms. There are a a lot to choose from out there, and offer cross platform systems that I will probably jump into next since I have been working pretty heavily with XenServer and VDI-in-a-Box (which is awesome and super simple to