Month: January 2010

vSphere enhancements in 2010?

I found a good article that speculates on some possible enhancements that could be coming to vSphere this year and into next year. It will be interesting to see how closely these rumors track with reality as the year unfolds.Highlights of the speculation include:32-way VMs512GB RAM or more per VMEnhance...

P2V HP Proliants? Use the PSP Cleaner

Although I personally haven't done it, you can easily P2V Windows servers running on HP Proliant hardware. However, you have major cleanup work to de-install all of the HP-specific software, drivers, agents, etc. If you don't do this your VM will likely run extremely slow and suffer lots of problems.To...

Beta VMware vSphere Hardening Guides

VMware has finally released their draft version of the security hardening guides for vSphere 4.0. After taking a look at some of them, I'll make a few observations:1) Totally different format than previous versions, now organized in tables. Very similar to the DISA STIG security guides.2) VMware adopted various security...

Windows 2008/7 Offline activation via TBA

Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, has imposed much stricter licensing controls in Windows Server 2008 and beyond. This is in an effort to stem the flow of piracy, which is probably pretty rampant in some communities. To help combat these evil forces in the world, Microsoft introduced Volume Activation 2.0....

Windows 7 God mode

1. Create a folder anywhere and name it:GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}2. Click on the control panel looking icon that the folder turns into.3. Have fun!You can also rename a new folder as well and paste in the string above.

WhooHoo! VMware VCP on 3.5!

A couple of weeks after taking and passing the VCP 4.0 exam I took the 3.5 exam today. Passed! It was funny..several of the questions on this exam carried over nearly word for word on the vSphere exam. The project I support at work is exclusively vSphere based, but I...