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Getting the Most out of vMotion - Architecture, Features, Debugging "Getting the Most out of vMotion - Architecture, Features, D...

Presentation Notes Virtual SAN Virtual SAN - software-based storage built into ESXi Aggregates local Flash and HDDs Shared datas...

Presentation Notes Book: Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right - by Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak, Michael Webster ...

Backpack SWAG As silly as this sounds, the VMworld backpack SWAG is significantly better quality than last year's, and that makes me...

VMworld 2014 Arrived at VMworld 2014 - excited to see what new things await us...

VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory  VMSA-2014-0004.6 reports that a number of VMware product suffer from the OpenSSL ...

Example of a PSOD kernel stack trace screen A PSOD (Purple Screen of Death) is the VMware ESX version of a Windows BSOD (Blue Screen of ...

The following instructions will allow you to change the " root " user's password to something simple like " password ...

The following instructions will allow you to enable root ssh access to an ESXi server: ESXi 5.0 and ESXi 5.1 ESXi 4.1 ESXi 4.0 ESX 4.1 ...

The following are instructions for managing kernel modules (drivers) on ESX(i). List all loaded kernel modules # vmkload_mod -l # --l...

WARNING: This is for education/informational testing/development purposes only, and should not be used on a production server. WARNING: T...

Generate Your Keys Linux From the remote Linux server: ssh-keygen Note: Make sure to leave the password empty, or you will defe...

How To setup VMware ESXi VMDirectPath (aka PCI Passthrough) VMware's PCI Passthrough solution is by far the best I have used.  The o...

CEO General Session Speaker: VMware’s CEO Patt Galsinger “The Software Defined Data Center” 22,000 attendees this year to VMworld 20...

This How To will redirect the Linux console output to a file.  Especially useful when you want to collect the full boot log, or full stack t...