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The Gillmor Gang Podcast - temp RSS feed and other stuff
For those of you following the Gillmore Gang podcast, you may have noticed the feed has not been updated recently. All queries directed at Steve Gilmore about this, have resulted in him simply pointing...
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Printer Connection cannot be removed
(zoom) Sometimes, a rogue printer driver entry gets left behind in your printer list. Sometimes, you cant delete it. Somtimes its even a duplicate of a printer that already exists, perhaps with a...
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Bladecenter Insight Display of Pleasure.jpg
Bladecenter Insight Display of Pleasure.jpg Originally uploaded by Jemimus :p
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“Multiple Connections” error when importing a Physical machine into VMware
As many before us, we ran into the following error in Virtual Center, when we tried to P-to-V a server: “multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user” This is not an uncommon...
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A “sinterklaas” poem to our users
Tonight and this weekend, we are upgrading our Livelink document management system. Tomorrow is also “Sinterklaas”, and it is traditional to send eachother lame poems as part of it. So here is mine to...
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This is how I like to admin
A bit of relaxed late-night admin from the comfort of the big cushy chair. Here is a brand new Lenovo Thinkpad X200 that has been running on a single charge for over 6 hours now, non stop (ultra low...
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Lenovo T500 Wont PXE boot
One of our batch of Lenovo T500 laptops refuses to boot from our Windows Deployment PXE server. So not easy to get our default company image into it. Hard to explain to Lenovo support what is wrong...
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Roling Out Thinkpads
Roling Out Thinkpads Originally uploaded by Jemimus Working on updating the laptop roleout script for these new T510 Thinkpad’s. We use RES Wisdom to do our automated installs.
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Putting together new blade servers
IMAG0252 Originally uploaded by Jemimus Putting together new blade servers, 2 x BL460C G6 and 2 x G7 They will server as our 7th and 8th Citrix Servers and our 7th and 8th ESX servers.
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VCP, Kindle and the thrill of finding the perfect place for awesome technology
The next few weeks I will be in study mode. Next week a 5 day classroom course for VMware vSphere 4.1: Install, Configure & Manage The week after that its 3 days VMware vSphere 4: Manage for...
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vExpert 2017
Its been a very interesting year so far, career wise. Late last year I figured I had a good shot at the vExpert status. I had written some in-depth blog posts, covered a lot of ground with GSS and even...
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VMware Cloud on AWS – More details emerging
—Update 21st March, vBrownbag episode on AWS that these slides are from, is now posted on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8rWI5tuSq8 — — Update 15th March ~5pm CET, added some extra info and...
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Speaking at the NLVMUG for the first time #vexpert
Here is a summery of my experience of speaking at the NLVMUG for the first time. For someone who always take pride in knowing just that little bit more than the next guy, it is not surprising that a...
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Solaris 11 on ESX – Serialized Disk IO bug causes extreme performance...
In this post, I discuss a newly found performance bug in Solaris 11, that has since Solaris 11 came out in 2011, severely hampered ESX VM disk i/o performance when using the LSI Logic SAS controller. I...
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vCenter rights needed for Docker-Machine vSphere Driver
There are many ways to quickly provision docker hosts to cloud infrastructures. Dockers own native way is to use docker-machine. Being a vSphere admin I was of course interested in the VMware vSphere...
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Podcast Listen List May 2017
The last 18 months I have started listening to podcasts again in a regular fashion. Way way back on this blog, I used to blog about them, and even participated in several,including the long-gone...
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VMware Technical Support Summit 2017, Global Support Services, Cork
Last week myself and Erwin had the opportunity to attend the VMware Technical Support Summit in Cork, Ireland. This is a 2 day event hosted by GSS which is technically oriented. Many interesting...
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First world problems, too many events to attend at #VMworld2017 EU #vexpert
This year is going to be an especially busy VMworld. Besides all the usual stuff you can sign up to, I have arranged for myself a crazy amount of additional events to go to. I already knew I would be...
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VMworld 2017 EU Day 1 (part 1) #vexpert
Had a super productive first day at VMworld! The Partner day is typically a bit quieter than the rest of the week, and more sales-oriented in the breakout-sessions. But I only got 1 session in anyway,...
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VMworld 2017 EU Day 1 (part 2)- #HACKATHON (awesome!!) #vexpert #vmwarecode
So there where two things I knew for a few years. – Everyone always seems to have an awesome time at Hackathons – I am not a developer, not even a descent scripter, how could I contribute to something...
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