• Perfect vSphere 5 whitebox

    August 25, 2011

    I was hunting for a new affordable whitebox all pieced together for me, IE a desktop that was inline with the HCL. I looked through Best Buy since they usually have decent deals and went to my local CompUSA store to scope things out. I ended up buying a Gateway DX4860 from Best Buy for [...]

  • vCenter 5: The FQDN cannot be resolved.

    August 24, 2011

    I was lucky enough to grab a copy of the vSphere 5 suite this weekend. Upgrade went fine, but I encountered an error during the install process for vCenter 5 stating “The Fully Qualified Domain Name could not be resolved”, after doing some testing I had no issue resolving that to my IP address assigned [...]

  • Locking yourself out of vCenter

    August 22, 2011

    A few days ago, I was browsing through Reddit and saw this post, where it was suggested that the person edit their database or vpxd.cfg to fix this issue via this article from years ago by Eric Sloof. There is a much simpler way of remedying this issue. vCenter takes its base permissions from the Administrators [...]

  • Stepping into the Cloud

    August 17, 2011

    I’ve finally made it, Cloud 9. Starting a few days ago, I am now one of the main virtualization administrators in our Tampa office, which hosts our eastern cloud services cluster for Hostway. I will be supporting our Hyper-V cluster , VMware vSphere environments for some of our VIP customers, and all of the other [...]

  • 2X ApplicationServer XG

    August 2, 2011

    I came across this software last week when looking for another viable RDP client for OSX, since CoRD has been having some stability issues in Lion. To my surprise I found 2X ApplicationServer XG, which is much like RemoteApp from what I’ve seen, one of the key differences is that it has clients for OSX, iOS, [...]

 
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