My Week in Geek – March 11, 2011

March 11, 2011 | Filed Under My Week in Geek | 529 views 

A weekly post (hopefully!?) of blogs, articles, sites, gadgets, issues, and other stuff I have found that is of interest to me (and I remembered to bookmark).

Been a pretty busy week so it is a short list today. Lot of stuff going on that is keeping me busy and that is a good thing, but I have been stationary long enough to compile a very extensive list of links this week.

  1. Here is a pretty good guide on installing and configuring the VMware vMA 4.1. If you are running the vMA 4.1 in VMware Workstation 7 you will have to make this change to the .vmx file to keep from getting a memory crash error.
     
  2. I added a new ESXi host to my environment a couple months back and of course I was not able to get processors to match the model of my older hosts so I had to enable the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) support. EVC allows for vMotion between hosts with processors that are within the same family but are a different model. Lots of information on EVC can be found here and an excellent EVC article can be found here.
     
  3. If you are using your vMA for syslogging from your ESX/ESXi hosts and need to increase the size of /var/log on your vMA appliance here is a great step by step article.
     
  4. VMware put out a nice PowerCLI reference poster and I received my full size one in the mail the other day. The poster came with a PowerCLI fan pack that included a bumper sticker and a button. I don’t think they are shipping out hard copies anymore (at least for now) but you can download the VMware PowerCLI poster here.
     
  5. Want to turn on (or turn off) virtual machine logging with PowerCLI? Here is how…
     
  6. The Apple iPad2 is available for sale today. Heard stories of folks getting in line for it as early as Monday.
     
  7. Check out the Issue number 1 of the VirtualizeTips.com e-magazine.
     
  8. Of course the other big VMware news of the week was the release of the iPad View Client. It is pretty cool that you can deliver a desktop to an iPad, i guess. I am just not into the iPad hype, but I do see the value of delivering a desktop to any device. Hey VMware how about a View client for the Nook?
     

Have a great weekend!

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