snapshots
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VMware
New Scheduled Task to Delete Snapshots in vSphere 8.0 Update 3
In case you have not seen as of yet, one of the new features that is a welcomed addition to vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is a new built-in scheduled task feature that gets rid of snapshots on virtual machines. This…
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Virtualization
KVM Cheat Sheet of virsh commands
Let’s look at a KVM cheat sheet of virsh commands to manage KVM from the command line as a management tool as this is often the best way for automation, etc. Table of contentsInstalling KVMCreating New Virtual MachinesManaging Guest Virtual…
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VMware
How VMware Backup Uses Snapshots
All who have been vSphere administrators for any amount of time will tell you, snapshots for the mostย part are evil!ย However, snapshots play a vital role in most vSphere infrastructures. When using them as designed and in a way that…
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Horizon View
VMware Horizon Toolbox Fling Installation
VMware Flings are a great resource to obtain tools to augment functionality or interaction with existing vSphere infrastructure. Often they are a preview of functionlity that will make it into future releases of the product that they extend. I wanted…
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VMware
Snapshot The features supported by the processors in this machine are different
Recently, I ran into a catch 22 of sorts with a VM that was running a snapshot in a development environment. ย The VM had a snapshot created for a quick “rinse and repeat” set of operations where we needed the…
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Virtualization
VMware create and restore group snapshots multiple VMs at once
If you have a lab environment or other “application stack” specific multiple VMs, there can arise the need to create and restore snapshots in unison or in a “group” fashion. ย This is easily accomplished with PowerCLI. ย Also, in playing around…
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Web
Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed
If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google Pagespeed is hard to beat.…