Now that you have a basic understanding of your travel requirements and how to pack, it is time to pop the question and commit yourself.…
Frequent Flyer Part 2: Luggage
Packing and luggage are possibly the most important decisions you need to make when traveling. To get you started, you should answer the following questions:…
Frequent Traveler Part 1: Questions
Are you a frequent traveler or are you about to become one? What type of travel will you be doing? In most cases, frequent travelers…
Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify the identity of the computer that you want to connect to
If you receive the error message “Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify the identity of the computer that you want to connect to.” and do not…
UCSM KVM Console Displays Black Screen
Over the past several weeks, I have been standing up new hardware in order to expand a cloud infrastructure. During this process, I was tasked…
EMC storage, DAE failures, and vertical striping
EMC’s best practice for creating storage pools and RAID groups on mid to low end storage arrays (e.g. CLARiiON or VNX) has always been to…
vCloud Director Issues and Resolutions
vCloud Director (vCD) is a great application for its first iteration and I expect great things from it in the future. Like any application, it…
VMware Announces the Beta Open PaaS Offering of Cloud Foundry!
Over the last year, I have been working very closely with VMware developers writing cloud PaaS applications. As of today, one of these PaaS applications…
PING: transmit failed, error code 1232
While testing a vCenter Heartbeat (vCHB) installation, I cloned the Windows VM used for vCenter Server, but did not use guest customization as the vCHB…
vCloud Director Open File Handles
For those of you with an active dpeloyment of VMware’s vCloud Director (vCD) or those looking into deploying it, I would like to point out…