Category: Article

VMware View and iPad (New SSL)

Well, as a part of my education and test I installed “VMware View 5.0” in my home lab and start using it for a while. Since that day I’ve used “VMware View Client” for most of my works; also as the “VMware View Client for iPad” is available, I installed and used it a little […]

Updated: February 3, 2012 — 1:32 AM

Personal Document in Kindle

As I needed to have some documents on my iPad/iPhone for reading and referring on the go, I checked the possible ways and found out that “Amazon” offering good service for sending personal document to the Kindle devices and software, for more information about this service Kindle Personal Documents Service link can be use. I’ve configured and […]

Updated: January 12, 2012 — 1:38 AM

VCP Preparation and Evernote Peek

I’m getting ready for my next exam and certificate and during my study I created a little tools for better preparation. I’ve imported all “VMware vSphere 5.0 – Configuration Maximums” data in the “Evernote” so it can be use by “Evernote Peek” on iPad devices for preparing for VCP510 exam. It will work as “Flash […]

Updated: December 9, 2011 — 9:47 PM

No Power Option

There are times which some VMs are freezing and in these situations there is no option for restart or shutdown. Today I got same experience and hopefully this time it was in my home lab, if it were in production … 🙄 Anyway, getting to the main point, in these situation admins may wants to […]

Updated: December 5, 2011 — 11:51 PM

ISO, Snapshot & Storage relation

Few days ago, while I was working on my home lab, I changed one of the NFS mounted shared storage on one of my ESXi 5.0 hosts. As this action happened only on one host, this different name start making some problems. One of these problem was the case of moving VMs from one host to […]

Updated: December 5, 2011 — 7:37 PM

Using VMware PowerCLI (#001)

After long absence, I’m back with some new posts which I hope they become useful one day. Code #001 (Disconnecting CD Drives): Last night, while I was looked for making some changes on my hosts in my home lab, I ran “RVTools” for checking VMs if they mounted any ISO images, so I can disconnect […]

Updated: November 28, 2011 — 11:48 PM

Migration to host failed with error

As I posted earlier, I have upgraded my lab from VMware vSphere 4.1 to VMware vSphere 5.0; during this upgrade (clean installation in some parts) I added 3rd NICs to hosts and created two vSwitch with one VMKernel for management and storage connection (multipathing) and one dvSwitch for some special VMs and features (FT Logging and vMotion). For […]

Updated: October 10, 2011 — 11:38 AM

VMware FT in Home Lab

Hi, I have upgraded my home lab hosts to the latest VMware ESXi 5.0 few days ago but yesterday I find the time to upgrade my vCenter as well; For some reason I cleaned up everything I made in past and did the clean installation. During this upgrade I bought and added second SSD Drive to […]

Updated: October 7, 2011 — 2:18 PM

Virtual Environment Account Manager

Hi, I wrote an application about few weeks ago and in these times I worked on it to improve it more and more. I hope you find it useful and I’d be grateful to have your comments and suggestion about it. Please check “VEAM” page for more information about this application.

Updated: October 6, 2011 — 6:46 PM