When you use Microsoft SQL Server on a regular basis with Transact-SQL scripts, it is a sometimes useful to quickly find the proper line of code. This is a quick tip on how to activate the Line Numbering when working with Transact-SQL. I hope this will be helpful....
Preamble It’s now 2013, and it’s time to have a peak at my homelab refresh for this year. Background In the past three years, I’ve ran a very light homelab with VMware ESXi. I mainly used my workstation (Supermicro X8DTH-6F) with Dual Xeon...
Looking back at the screenshot of the vSphere Web Client, we see that the vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 2.0 has identified 27 Known Application Services. If we want to see how the vCenter 5.1 communicates with other infrastructure elements in the virtual...
Today VMware released vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 and vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 2.0. These products are now very tightly integrated with the vCenter 5.1 and plug into the vSphere Web Client. In the screenshot below, you see two new floating windows with the...
With the release of the vCloud Director 5.1, a series of networking enhancements to how Organization vDC communicate have been made. This gives Organizations (Tenants) a lot more choice in creating their vApps and even allows connectivity with other Organizations...
Web Interface Timeout Issues I often use the Web Interface of vCenter Operations Manager to check the infrastructure. Because while the client module exist for the vSphere Client, I don’t find it as optimized in the display and the pane jumping. One of the...
[Update 10/30/2012 Thanks to Maxm] I use Visio a lot to create diagrams for my customers and colleagues. But when I tried to import Cisco Stencils I retrieved from the Cisco website, or HP Proliant Stencils from VisioCafe with the Visio 2013 RTM, you get the following...
Yesterday, VMware released version 5.0.2 of the vCenter Operations Manager. Here are the release notes for version 5.0.2. Reading the release notes, I’m looking forward to the New Text Widget in the Enterprise version of the product. Here are the three key...
First, I’m sorry I have been so quiet on the web, bu I’ve just come back from 15 days of medical leave due to a Bursitus in my elbow, which made it extremely hard to write anything with a cast. But that did not stop me from swapping disks in Nexenta...
Following my Nexenta storage for the vLab article. I was asked how my ARC and L2ARC where doing. Here are two more screenshots that I just took on my infrastructure, while doing the initial backup of a 40GB virtual machine with VMware Data Recovery. I had the Nexenta...
