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 an update a previous post (vSphere Client on Linux) I was having trouble getting tsclient to except custom resolutions so I rewrote the launcher to execute the following:rdesktop -u bfitzhugh -p -n virtualcenter.hostname.local -g 1680x995 -s 'c:\P… 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 »

Quick cheat sheet on how to put ESXi/VMvisor on a USB stick using linux: Download ESXi Open the ISO (Archive Mounter works) Open the image.tgz file Drill down and locate the VMware-VMvisor......dd.bz2 file Open the dd.bz2 file, and ext… more »