I've never liked the disconnect between the power management and some of the other features built into vSphere 4. One of the more aggravating situations occurs when a host hosting templates and powered down VM's goes into standby. When this occurs you… more »

In my last post I did ran a little test where I copied a few ISO's over to the test server to see how the deduplication process worked on ZFS. I've continued that testing, and copied a few virtual machines up to the lab server. To make things a bit mor… more »

Running vSphere (4) and Virtual Center, you may encounter a situation where the all of the virtual hardware options are greyed out when you click "Edit Settings". I'm not sure of the root cause, but it seems to be able to be cleared up by taking and del… more »

Inspired by Rich at VM /ETC, I decided to implement his solution and integrate it into my daily workflow. To do that I configured the RDP connection as Rich indicates in his post. I then performed an extra step, and checked the "Hide window manager'… more »

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