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Welcome to vReference

16 Jun 2009 Forbes GuthrieNo Comments

I’ve moved. vmreference.com is so old school.  I’ve decided to “keep up with the Joneses”, and become hip with the new vReference moniker.  After VMware decided to rename everything (again), I thought it might be a good idea to go with the flow. It was also a good chance to update my website.  Hopefully I […]

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Hidden GUI disk policy

4 Jun 200917 Nov 2012 Forbes Guthrie2 Comments

Whilst reviewing the new ESX4 Web Admin Guide last night, I came across a “new feature”.  If you log into a ESX4 WebAccess session and add a new disk to a VM, you have the option to change the “Write caching” policy from the GUI.  This option isn’t available from the vClient view. After a […]

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New PowerShell reference card

28 May 200921 Jun 2013 Forbes GuthrieNo Comments

I got an email last week from Dennis Zimmer, letting me know that he’s just published a new PowerCLI (PowerShell) reference card.  I’m no PowerShell expert myself, but this looks like a another great resource for the VMware user community.  Great work. You can grab yourself a copy from the Icomasoft website here.

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PowerShell script for Service Console memory

26 Jan 2009 Forbes Guthrie5 Comments

Here is a script that will query all your ESX hosts and create a report of what their Service Console memory is set to.  Like most people I always set this to 800MB after an install, but when you are dealing with a large environment it’s all too easy to miss some.  Having your Service […]

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