In my previous two posts, I looked at setting up the core Dell VSM appliance, and in the second post how to enable the Dell […]
Back To Basics: Dell VSM – The VASA Provider
vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) is a collection of APIs that allow storage vendors to advertise storage capabilities from the array to vCenter. The […]
Back To Basics: Storage Vendor Plug-ins: Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager (VSM)
This post is long overdue. It was originally written when I still had my colocation lab back in about Feb of this year. Back then […]
Back To Basics: MOTD and Terminating Sessions…
Sending Messages of the Day Users It is possible to send a message to the users of the Web Client each time they log in […]
Back To Basics: Roles – Viewing, Removing, and No Access Privilege
Viewing Role Assignments Once a role, custom or otherwise is in use – its possible to view the assignment from >Home >Roles and selecting the […]
Back To Basics: Creating Custom Roles
As we saw earlier the “Virtual Machine User (Sample)” role allows for basic actions on the VM such as power on/off and opening a console. […]
Back To Basics: Role-based Access Controls (Intro & Creating)
Introduction In small environments many organisation feel little pressure to excessive “delegate” responsibility within vCenter – with many being able to use individual user accounts […]
Back To Basics: Creating and Deploying Templates with PowerCLI – Part 7
Converting a VM to a Template: Converting an existing VM to a template is a single one-liner PowerCLI command using the cmdlet Set-VM. The cmdlet […]
Back To Basics: The Things you forget to remember…
I’ve been using VMware ESX/vCenter/vSphere for some years now. I mean all the way back to 2.x.x and 1.x.x – and as such it’s rare […]
Back To Basics: Simple Guest Customization Scripting Example (Part 6)
Due to the innumerable reboots that operating systems like Windows 2012 R2 undergo, it can be difficult to know exactly when the deployment process has […]