Short story: Can I replace the new vCenter 5.1 iPXE boot with good old vCenter 5.0 PXE? Yes you can !!!! I called on twitter for help for someone to send me the contents of their AutopDeploy 5.0 FTPRoot directory and I promptly received a response from Roman ( @medea61 ). After placing the AutoDeploy […]
Whats New
Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 released
On June 4th Veeam released version 6.1 of their well known Veeam Backup & Replication suite. In this new release they have of course included many fixes and quite number of interesting new features. The biggest new thing however is The Free Version called “Veeam Backup Free Edition”. Let’s do a quick walk through the […]
New design for GabesVirtualWorld
After running the “Private Investigator” design, a film noir theme, for almost 2 years, it was time for a redesign. I asked my good twitter friend Jenneke van Wijngaarden (@JennekePenneke) for help and ideas. Jenneke is well known for her graffiti art on walls and paintings, but she had never before created a design for a […]
VMware View Client with PCoIP for Mac OS X
Today VMware released their Technical Preview of the VMware View PCoIP client for OSX. We’ve all been waiting for this since the release of VMware View 5 and today I finally got to test it on OSX. Of course I had to install it right away and run a test drive from work to my […]
Updating your ESXi host using VMware vSphere 5 Auto deploy
In my previous post on VMware vSphere5 Auto deploy I explained how to setup an auto deploy environment. This is great for initial setup and to deploy your hosts, but what when an update is released by VMware? The easiest thing is to just delete the deploy rules and recreate them which is ok for […]