Diary of a Bad Golfer

Using VMware Lab Manager 2.x VMs on a Domain

In order to use the virtual machines in Lab Manager on a domain you have to do some customization. For starters - the templates themselves can *NOT* be on a domain, LM Tools will not install on a machine already joined to a domain. If you already have a custom ISO created ...

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Recovering VM from SAN snapshot in VMware Lab Manager

I recently ran into a problem where a user accidently reverted to a snapshot within Lab Manager, they didn't realize this at first and by the time they did I had upgrade Lab Manager to the latest version (2.5.3). This ended up being a bit of a pain so ...

VMware Lab Manager - Remove Orphaned VMs

If you use VMware Lab Manager and Virtual Center you have probably noticed a lot of orphaned virtual machines within your VI Client. VMware has a tool you can install on your Lab Manager server to automatically clean up these orphans. Download the tool from ...

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Pass Through Authentication with the VMware VI Client

This seems to be a lesser known option, but if you want to pass through your domain credentials to the Virtual Center server add the following at the end of the VI Client shortcut. -passthroughAuth -s

Mac: Create ISO from VIDEO_TS folders

Having a lot of space on my home file server and using XBMC, I prefer to keep all my DVD's as ISO's on my network so I can stream them. Most of the time after I rip them I'm left with the VIDEO_TS directory, on Windows I would use something ...

Mac: Transmit supports Amazon S3

I guess this is a little old but I had been using Jungle Disk as a front end for Amazon S3 but didn't want to fork out the cash after the trial period for a Mac and Windows version. I already use Transmit daily for FTP/SFTP (I ...

Windows NLB on VMware ESX

Recently I have setup a NLB IIS site with 2 VM's in a DRS/HA cluster. Because of this using unicast mode was not an option (we need to be able to vMotion the virtual machines). Multicast is also the way VMware recommends setting it up. From VMware's site: ...

Thinstall - Application Virtualization

I've been playing around a little recently with Thinstall (which was recently acquired by VMware). Basically it will take an application and turn it into a self-contained single EXE that doesn't require an install. It's extremely easy to use, I setup a fresh install of XP in VMware ...