vSphere filling up SQL Express Database

Have you installed vSphere with SQL Express and found that the database is nearly full?  Did you think using SQL Express 2008 R2 would be fine because it has a 10GB database size limit, but found out it wasn’t?

Well you have come to the right place.

Let me show you how you can get

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ESXi Host Configuration Script – Deconstruction

I’ve been working on the host configuration script as I do ESXi upgrades and installs for clients. I wrote a deconstruction of an AD script that has been very popular so I thought I would write another one.

The first thing that the script does is gather information to setup the host. It will ask

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ESXi 4.1 U1 Host Configuration Script

Update: 2011-08-14 – I’ve corrected some issues that crop up when this script is run on the second and subsequent hosts.

It was time to upgrade to ESXi 4.1 U1 and I didn’t want to run through configuring all the VM Hosts manually.

This script will need to be customized for your environment.

It prompts

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VM’s pause for no reason in vSphere…

Check your power settings… The system is likely going into Hibernation/Sleep.

Tends to only be a default setting on a desktop OS. (Windows XP, Vista, 7)

ESX 4 and iSCSI – Networking Setup

My quick and dirty notes on how to setup iSCSI for ESX with Jumbo Frames.

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VMware Hardending Guide

Public Draft for now.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/general/security?view=documents

VMware ThinApp

VMware’s Application Virtualization.

Just like Microsoft’s App-V and Symantec’s Workspace, ThinApp packages all the components of an application into a single executable.  What separate ThinApp from the crowd is that the package runs without client software already installed on desktop that runs the package, I would say that gives it an edge.

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vSphere

vSphere is VMware’s new brand name for their products.  For version 4 they decided to bring all their products under a single banner.

The tag line includes “Cloud” or “Cloud Infrastructure”, which, being buzz words, are confusing many people.

Think of vSphere as just the latest version and don’t worry about the marketing terminology.