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It’s true it’s been a long time I didn’t posted anything on vmdude.fr, but believe …
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It gives an immense pleasure to be among the (very short, we’re just 32) 2016 VSAN vExpert …
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Update 2016/05/16: Thanks to @jmauser a Github release have been created that support vSphere 6.0 …
Continue ReadingDuring our adventures in troubleshooting world, we met an interesting case with some challenge and a …
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As every year, VMware has released the list of vExpert for the year 2016 (available here with a …
Continue ReadingCela fait plusieurs fois que des personnes nous demande quelle est la procédure pour pouvoir …
Continue ReadingAs we follow up our previous post SolidFire vs ATS heartbeat about issues we had with SolidFire …
Continue ReadingWe had to deal with an interesting case regarding a new VDI platform hosted on SolidFire arrays. …
Continue ReadingFor those who are interested by SexiLog and/or Veeam™, or those who wish to have deeper knowledge …
Continue ReadingFollowing Twitter news, we wanted to share with all of our readers the big news of this monday 23th …
Continue ReadingVMware just published vExpert 2015 nominated list (available here with a little over 1000 entries) …
Continue ReadingIf you’re already a Graylog2 user or if you plan to become one (if it’s still not the …
Continue ReadingUpdate 2014.08.28 : Adding Microsoft KB in order to be able to clean WSUS updates on 2008r2 sp1 in …
Continue ReadingAfter a slight fear due to an oversight on our part (we pass over the shameful details!) vmdude.fr …
Continue ReadingIn order to prepare a presentation about our infrastructure, it has been asked to us to retrieve …
Continue ReadingWe needed to compare advanced settings from 2 ESXi servers which were located in different cluster …
Continue ReadingUpdate 2014/01/29: Raphaël published on the OneLiner depot a command to list all VM without snapshot …
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Here is our review of VMworld Europe 2013 which took place at Barcelona (again!) from 14th to 17th …
Continue ReadingNous avons rencontré un usecase que nous pourrions catégoriser comme un Worst Case Scenario et nous …
Continue ReadingThe VMware platform on which we now work with hypervisor.fr has several specific aspects and one of …
Continue ReadingFollowing hypervisor.fr’s post Storage vMotion : the method is disabled, we work today for a …
Continue ReadingWe always tried to fully optimize scripts and applications that we developed because as soon as the …
Continue ReadingEarly this morning John Troyer had release the vExpert 2013 list and we had the pleasure to be in …
Continue ReadingHere is a quick post talking about vOpenData project on which we had the chance to offer our …
Continue ReadingHere is a little memento we forgot to post a while ago, in order to get name and IP of all ESXi …
Continue ReadingIt’s been a while Timo told us about it, but now it’s done, GitHub, here we are. We plan …
Continue ReadingYesterday evening, we heard about a great news, a new PowerCLI release (5.1 Release 2): Alan Renouf …
Continue ReadingUpdate 2014.10.31: Following a comment requesting adding datastore usage as well, we added datastore …
Continue ReadingEdit 01.04.2013 : A few script modification following a very nice observation by hypervisor (as …
Continue ReadingAs we were about to use some new BL465c G7 blades hosting ESXi servers installed with HP custom ISO …
Continue ReadingAs we were working on a vCenter diff files plugin for *.vmx and *.vmdk (only for the descriptor, not …
Continue ReadingHere is a late review from Europe VMworld 2012 that took place at Barcelona from october 9th to …
Continue ReadingEdit - 2012.12.21 : Adding chinese string Since version 5.0, VMware changed the way they see the …
Continue ReadingAs explained in our previous post, vSphere 5.1 GA was released yesterday. So we quickly upgraded our …
Continue ReadingIf you follow the VMware news, you should know vSphere 5.1 GA (General Availability) is available …
Continue ReadingAs Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was released, you’ll not be able to succeed guest customization during …
Continue ReadingWe had some strange issue during restoration attempt with Veeam Backup from a reversed incremental …
Continue ReadingFollowing hypervisor.fr’s post Les HP Proliant ML110 G6 supportent 32Go de RAM, we just …
Continue ReadingWe had some errors using Exchange vCheck on our HomeLab (a little reminder, Exchange vCheck …
Continue ReadingIt’s been some day since Veeam announced a big news : Something Awesome is coming !: In the …
Continue ReadingSmall memento following an internal question about extending the default maximum number of NFS …
Continue ReadingYesterday the 17th edition of the Belgian VMUG so-called *Blogger Edition* took place in Brussels. …
Continue ReadingJust to inform you that I’ll now be more focused on VMware products and a little less (not too …
Continue ReadingUpdate 2015.04.02: From ESXi 5.5 and native drivers, vmhba information are available through new …
Continue ReadingWe’re using the tool visionApp ASG Remote Desktop in order to manage our RDP/ICA/SSH …
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Yesterday was released the first draft for the vSphere 5 hardening guide listing best practices …
Continue ReadingFor our new memento post, during a fully messed-up mastered maintenance operation from our beloved …
Continue ReadingI had the honor this weekend to see my name displayed in the short list for vExpert 2012 title ! …
Continue ReadingThere is an extra course for the vmworld 2010, and it’ll be in Copenhagen (in Danemark) from …
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As we explained in a previous post (vSphere 5.0 Update 1 is out), the 5.0 Update 1 is available for …
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As you may have noticed, the dude has a new theme (with also a favicon and a real logo :p) ! It been …
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Still in Veeam 6 tests, the new architecture uses proxy and repository (as you can read in the …
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When converting a physical server to a virtual machine (typically a P2V operation with VMware …
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This night, VMware published the first Update for vCenter and ESXi 5.# branch. vSphere vCenter For …
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We hope the answer to this post title will be Yes we do ! ^^ Following our previous post introducing …
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We have the honor of hosting Veeam as first sponsor of our blog. This concern us particularly …
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We came across something interesting while testing on the development of a web plugin for vCenter. …
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Yesterday, Alan Renouf released the last vCheck script version, aka version 6.10 It’s been a …
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We find an interesting PDF like we love named Top 5 Reasons to choose Microsoft Hyper-V R2 SP1 over …
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Patch3 (KB1442) for Veeam Backup & Recovery v6 was released this week with a lot of bug fix and …
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Here is the 6.0 version of vCheck ! Alan Renouf just offers again a nice present for VMware …
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Here is another memento which was very handy during a vCenter plugin developpement (there’ll …
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We had some issues with vCenter rights regarding XenDesktop. Following Citrix prerequisites on the …
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A new book about vSphere was published yesterday : VMware vSphere 5 au sein du Datacenter at ENI …
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With the nice christmas present from Veeam, a free 2 socket Enterprise NFR key for all VCP/vExpert …
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It’s been quite a while it started to tease us, and here it is, LazyVMAdmin ! You may be like …
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In this end of 2011, Veeam renew their offer made before by offering NFR (Not For Resale) Key to all …
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This post will end the late review of Europe VMworld 2011, it was shot but awesome !!! This was the …
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With some delay, we go on the review of VMworld 2011. One of the most expected sessions was the one …
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If you had to deal with several admins using Veeam Backup 5 at the same time, you may had issues …
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Still in heavy stuff, now we’re going on PowerCLI with Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf. The session …
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We start with this session because we were late in timing for VMworld and we couldn’t arrive …
Continue ReadingThe Europe VMworld 2011 starts next Tuesday and will be held in Copenhagen fromOctober 18 to 20! And …
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It’s been a while we wanted to write this post, there was just a draft, and each time …
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If you’re used to work with vSphere template, and if like us are still in vSphere 4.1 (still …
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In order to setup NLB on some virtual machines, we found the following KB (which is very interesting …
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We encounter some strange behavior with our pal zozor during a datastore maintenance (understand …
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We met a quite funny/annoying behavior on a SQL Express in a homelab. We were doing lots of testing …
Continue ReadingVMware just launch new online formation for vSphere PowerCLI A recall, vSphere PowerCLI is a …
Continue ReadingOr not! During a full MPacks update with the online catalog on the SCOM console, we lost all global …
Continue ReadingThis procedure can be used to perform a restore of a mailbox of a user in Exchange 2007 (HMC 4.5) …
Continue ReadingWindows SVN server : visual svn Metal scroll Ankhsvn Coderush Ghostdoc (pour la doc) SandCastle …
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EDIT 29/09/2011 : Version 5.5.1 - Patching some minor bugs (thanks to MacBookeur for testing) Today …
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Here we are ! The General Availability (GA) v5 of vSphere is out ! We’d to wait a little …
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Still in the Memento/oneliner category, here is one to activate the Remote Tech Support Mode (aka …
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Still in Memento category, here is a onliner in order to update all multipathing policy for a …
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As the 2011 edition of VMworld is fast approaching (starting in Las Vegas on August 29), the …
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As indicated in the title and as our colleague ldap389.info did, we’ll now add (slowly) posts …
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Yesterday came out a new fling from VMware labs, namely Boomerang. You can visit the official page …
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Suite de l’article Création d’un cmdlet Powershell [Partie3] Dans l’article …
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Suite de l’article Création d’un cmdlet Powershell [Partie2] Dans l’article …
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Suite de l’article Création d’un cmdlet Powershell [Partie1] Dans l’article …
Continue ReadingDans ce grand monde de Powershell, il nous est souvent arrivé de se demander au final qu’est …
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Nous avons un projet qui va être hébergé sur une infrastructure composée de châssis IBM BladeCenter …
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Still in Memento category, here is a one-liner that will add a new nfs datastore on all esx server …
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A un certain moment, nous avons eu des déconnexions répétées sur le vCenter (et relance du service …
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Les CustomFields sont des champs personnalisés au niveau de vCenter qui permettent de définir des …
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Un petit billet pour soutenir un membre de la communauté Citrix francophone, le bien connu Pierre …
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Après la sortie d’un client vSphere en version portable, Apple vient de valider la publication …
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Dernier né des labs de VMware, un fling nommé Thinapped vSphere Client. Cet outil est en fait un …
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On a rencontré une erreur lors de l’utilisation de Veeam FastSCP sur un Windows 2008 R2. Le …
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De même que notre confrère hypervisor.fr, nous avons eu la bonne surprise de recevoir notre PowerCLI …
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VMware va publier le 14 mars un nouveau produit vCenter Operations dont le but est de mesurer, …
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Voici une commande en OneLiner permettant de retourner l’état d’un service Windows : …
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On a eu récemment à interpréter et comparer des résultats générés par IOMeter. D’habitude, on …
Continue ReadingJuste un petit billet hors-scope sur la sortie prochaine (15 mars 2011) du livre de la nouvelle Zero …
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Les pré-enregistrement pour le VMworld 2011 sont ouverts. Les enregistrements commenceront au mois …
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Ce 28 mars 2011 va devenir une date importante ! En ce jour, sortira LE livre sur PowerCLI à avoir …
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Les labs de VMware viennent de sortir un nouvel outil, à savoir vCenter XVP Manager and Converter. …
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Pour s’assurer que les technologies Intel VT ou AMD-V soient bien activées au niveau du …
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Xtravirt met à disposition un outil de récupération de documentation VMware (en prenant compte des …
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Voici une commande permettant de créer un nouveau portgroup sur tous les serveurs d’un cluster …
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Ça fait plusieurs fois qu’on recherche des commandes qu’on avaient déjà utilisées …
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Nous avons rencontré un bug intéressant dans Powershell (même en v2.0) au niveau de la gestion des …
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Juste un petit post pour dire que j’allais changer de nom de blog. Pourquoi ? ! Pourquoi pas …
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Le site www.vmworld.com vient d’annoncer la localisation et les dates du prochain VMworld …
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Dans le cas d’une conversion d’une machine (physique ou virtuelle) vers une image …
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Juste un petit billet pour mettre un script qu’on utilise de temps en temps. Sur une …
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Un nouveau tool est sorti des labs VMware, j’ai nommé IOBlazer ! Pour ceux qui ne …
Continue ReadingSuite à mon précédent post sur Mes R.Pools sont-ils bien configurés ?, voici l’ensemble de …
Continue ReadingPour rappel, les Resource Pools permettent de donner des priorités CPU et MEM en cas de contention …
Continue ReadingVMware Support Insider vient de publier comme chaque mois la liste des 20 KB les plus utilisées pour …
Continue ReadingThe last days have been hectic in the vmware community with the announcement of the 5 release of …
Continue ReadingUne nouvelle section vient d’être ajoutée : Livres Je me suis rendu compte qu’il …
Continue ReadingNous vous souhaitons une très bonne année 2011, avec tout pleins de bonne choses, et n’oubliez …
Continue ReadingLa version 4.1 d’ESXi a vu arriver de nouvelles fonctionnalités, notamment le Memory …
Continue ReadingNous avons eu besoin de récupérer rapidement et de manière automatique la liste des WWNs (Port Name …
Continue ReadingVeeam offre des clés NFR (Not For Resale) à tous les VCP, VCI et vExpert ! Ceux qui n’étaient …
Continue Reading/Mode PrivateJoke:on Dans le cas d’un projet incluant XenApp/XenDesktop/VMware, j’ai eu …
Continue ReadingJuste un petit billet pour remercier les gens de DocForum pour leur 3ème édition de leur forum du 4 …
Continue ReadingLe 1er décembre marque la sortie de la version 4.1.1 de PowerCLI sans vraiment faire parler …
Continue ReadingOn a reçu une demande afin de récupérer des informations de licences VMware sur tous les vCenter de …
Continue ReadingLe MOB de vCenter n’a aucun rapport avec les MMORPG (ou encore MEUPORG ^^) mais fait plutôt …
Continue ReadingAvec vSphere 4.1, l’outil vCenter Converter est passé en version 4.2 amenant dans sa besace …
Continue ReadingPour ceux qui sont passés de vCenter 4.0 à vCenter 4.1, certains (notamment ceux avec un OS en …
Continue ReadingSi l’arrivée de la version CS5 de Photoshop a amené son lot de nouveauté les unes autant …
Continue ReadingC’est ça de ne pas tenir à jour ses brouillons, on oublie de poster quand il faut et on le …
Continue ReadingNous avons rencontré un problème assez intéressant concernant les HostProfile. Pour rappel, les …
Continue ReadingPour ceux qui ne le savait pas, VMware avait fait une session de rattrapage de l’évènement …
Continue ReadingVendredi, Londres sera sous le signe de PowerCLI ! VMware organise un séminaire qui doit vraiment …
Continue ReadingWallies ??? quoi c’est Alors, en fait Wallies, qu’est ce que c’est ? C’est …
Continue ReadingPowershell est un très bon langage de programmation, mais reste un langage interprété alors que VB …
Continue ReadingThe Exchange 2007 - Powershell pair works very well, and is even mandatory for some tasks (for …
Continue ReadingIn order to get the list of all rules got by a MOM agent, here is the command to run on MOM server : …
Continue ReadingDuring SCOM 2007 update to SCOM 2007 R2, we got this following error (being not able to go on): …
Continue ReadingAn important new feature of DPM 2010 is the autogrowth of the space allocated for protection groups. …
Continue ReadingA highly anticipated new features of DPM 2010 is the ability to protect machines that are in a …
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Welcome to cloudydude.fr This blog has not been done to really meet a need when you see the plethora …
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