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VMworld: Host Profiles

1 Sep 2009 Forbes Guthrie5 Comments

I just attended the Technical Deep Dive on Host Profiles (VM3433).  I learned a couple of interesting things that I’d not seen before: Only 1 profile can be applied per cluster. Logging on the host is to the file “pyVmomiserver.log” Things not covered by Host Profiles are: Licensing vDS policy configuration (however you can do […]

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VMworld Reception Party

31 Aug 2009 Forbes Guthrie2 Comments

Well, this evening was the VMworld 2009 Welcome Reception Party.  Here lies my swag.  I gave up after the seventeenth t-shirt.

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VI3 and vSphere Posters

31 Aug 2009 Forbes GuthrieNo Comments

Dudley Smith has done it again.  After he contacted me with his awesome Connections and Ports diagram, he has taken both my VI3 card and vSphere4 card, and turned them into PDFs which can be printed as 2′ by 3′ posters.  Help yourself to these here: VI3 card – poster size vSphere4 card – poster […]

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Firewall port connection diagram

28 Aug 200921 Jun 2013 Forbes Guthrie3 Comments

I received a great email from Dudley Smith today, a VMware TAM. He has created a fantastic diagram of the traffic interactions between all the vSphere components. I’ve written before about the complexities of this before, and how the existing documentation doesn’t clearly explain the details.  Dudley has very kindly allowed me to share this […]

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