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• All Things VMworld Europe 2011 Day 3

  Yet again (I’m not sure why I keep doing this) I decided to get up early and into the conference so i could get my Day 2 blog posting out and be awake enough for Paul Maritz’s keynote. A number of my fellow LonVMUG colleagues also made their way Read More... Posted 21 October 2011 11:05 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation

• All Things VMworld Europe 2011 Day 2

  As I did with Day 1, for day 2 I also got in around half seven to be able to get into the labs as they opened. It seems that loads of other people had the exact same idea though as by half eight there was a waiting queue in the waiting area of over 50 Read More... Posted 20 October 2011 07:43 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments

• All Things VMworld Europe 2011 Day 1

  Day 1 started early for me as I wanted to get in early and make sure I got a full day out. So I arrived at the Bella Centre at 7:45 and got myself onto a hands on lab as it opened. The lab I took was Deploying ESXi hosts via auto deploy (not the Read More... Posted 19 October 2011 08:33 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation

• All Things VMworld Europe Day 0

  Yet again, i have been fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to attend VMworld Europe. I really enjoyed my time last year and knowing what to expect made it even more exciting for me than last year. Monday is Partner day and they definitely made Read More... Posted 18 October 2011 09:07 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware, Virtualisation

• VCAP4-DCA Exam Experience

  I decided to wait until I got my results before I wrote up this blog posting as I felt writing it up straight afterwards would mean I might miss something out and to see if VMware would give me credit for doing things in another way even though Read More... Posted 10 October 2011 10:27 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: VMware, VCAP, VCAP-DCA, Virtualisation

• Upgrading from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5

  Yep the time has yet again come round that the bi yearly mass upgrade of all of my VMware environments needs upgrading to the latest version. Thankfully this upgrade process hasn’t been too difficult but seeing as so many people said they found my posting Read More... Posted 08 October 2011 00:13 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation

• PowerEdge 6950 shows 112GB of RAM even though 128GB is installed

  For the past few days we’ve had the above problem where we upgraded one of our PowerEdge 6950 server to 128Gb of RAM but once we booted it it only showed 112GB of RAM. My colleague James Voll and I tested to try work out which RAM bank may have been causing Read More... Posted 07 October 2011 22:42 by Gregg Robertson | 0 Comments Filed under: Dell