VMware Octopus wallpaper
Duncan over at Yellow Bricks was nice enough to share this VMware Octopus wallpaper. Of the VMware wallpaper I have this one is my favorite for some reason.
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Thank you VMware Community!
So far, 2014 has been a very rewarding year for a number of reasons, two of which has happened in just a week or two span. First, Eric Siebert (@ericsiebert) announced on March 27th, this years results of the 2014 Top VMware & Virtualization Blog voting. My first year entered into voting and made it to 71st place! A huge thanks goes out to not only Eric but just as much so to everyone who voted for me!
To top it off, yesterday VMware announced 2014’s first quarter VMware vExpert list. While vExpert isn’t a technical certification or even a general measure of VMware expertise. The VMware judges selected people who were engaged with their community and who had developed a substantial personal platform of influence in those communities. There were a lot of very smart, very accomplished people, even VCDXs, that weren’t named as vExpert this year. VMware awarded this title to 754 people this year and on that list of many impressive names you’ll find yours truly, Michael Tabor!
I’m both honored and humbled by both lists. It’s a great feeling to be recognized by not only my peers through the voting in the Top vBlog but also by VMware themselves through the vExpert title.
So again THANK YOU very much to the entire VMware community, a spectacular community indeed, and congratulations to everyone else that made the Top vBlog and vExpert lists!
Clone VMware ESXi USB boot drive to another USB flash drive
A few days ago one of my hosts in my home lab was displaying an alarm message:
Lost connectivity to the device mpx.vmhbaXX:XX:XX:XX backing the boot filesystem /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhbaXX:XX:XX:XX. As a result, host configuration changes will not be saved to persistent storage.The last part of the message (“persistent storage”) made me think it might have something to do with the USB drive due to the fact that a similar message appeared when setting up the home lab on the Intel NUC’s. After some research it appears my assumption was correct and that the USB flash drive I was using to boot from was indeed starting to fail.
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How to update VMware Windows VM’s DNS using PowerCLI
This post will show you how to update a VMware Windows virtual machine’s DNS IP addresses using PowerCLI.
You’ll also see how I went from a starting point to a fully working script – all thanks to the awesome #vCommunity!
Here at work we’ve been doing a number of networking, AD, and DNS changes. In doing so, our DNS IP address have changed. Changing the DNS settings for our workstations was easy, simply edit the DHCP scope.
The servers on the other hand all had static IP’s and static DNS IP’s entered, each of which needed to be updated.
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How to convert VMDK to OVF file format
Here is a quick and easy way to convert a VMDK to OVF file format using the OVF Tool from VMware.
- First download and install the VMware OVF Tool for your operating system.
- Open a command prompt as Administrator and navigate to the OVF Tool install directory:
cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool
- Next, type in the following command to convert VMDK to OVF:
ovftool.exe\virtualmachine.vmx \virtualmachine.ovf 
After a few minutes time you should you should see a “Transfer Completed, Completed successfully” message and your VMDK to OVF file conversion is complete and ready for use.
