I am constantly asked to comment upon computer industry certifications. I have two certificates myself, the PMP and the CISSP, and somehow that makes me an expert! People ask me all sorts of things such as, “What should I do to study?”, “Is the certificate worth the cost?”, “Which one is better?”, and “Which one […]
Displaying Unused Device Drivers
Last week, I was trying to debug a network problem that was being experienced by one of my virtual machines. This VM had a bit of “history” having been moved several times between different hosts, and having originally been a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion. Anyway, it wasn’t working correctly, and I couldn’t find anything obviously misconfigured. […]
Skype for Windows
Last week, I patched my Windows 7 machine, and was surprised to see a Skype update listed as an available download and patch. What surprised me about this optional update was that Skype is not installed on my Windows 7 machine. This implies that now you can complete a fresh install directly from the Windows […]
The Next Hacking Target = Your Car
We all know that our computers and our phones can be vulnerable to attacks and exploits. Every once in a while, we get a virus or get our Internet accounts hacked, and that reminds us to “be careful”. And, if it not us who gets this reminder, it is a family member or a close […]
“Unable to Find Any Array Script…” Error
Last week, I installed VMware 5.5 Update 2e (which worked fine) and then I installed Site Recovery Manager (SRM) which seemingly went fine. As a third step, I install Site Recovery Array (SRA) and then ran the vSphere client and installed the Site Recovery Plugin. Note that in version 5.5, SRM is not available via […]
How to Zip and Encrypt in OSX
Last week, I needed to email someone a document that had my social security number in it. Before the recent 25 million person breach of personally identifiable information (PII) I would have probably just emailed it without a second thought. But, with all the recent security news, I hesitated. How should I get this to […]
Error Message Installing the SRM Plugin
I have been running vCenter upgrades recently. Today, I was attempting to upgrade from VMware 5.5U1 to VMware 5.5U2. I have already ran this particular upgrade four other times this month, but today I received an error message as I was attempting to install the SRM plugin: “VMware vSphere Client is running and needs to […]
What does Remove Cluster do?
I needed to move some hosts from one vCenter to another one. I had virtual machines running on these hosts, and did not want to shutdown the machines in order to accomplish the switch. What was the best way to accomplish this? At first, I attempted to use the “Remove” menu item when highlighting the […]
How to Migrate a VMware Template
I was busy doing maintenance tasks last week. One of the things I needed to do with move a VMware template from one host to another. But, the Migrate menu option was greyed out and I didn’t see a way of moving this template to its new host. Migrating virtual machines, whether powered on or […]
An Error Prevents Datastore from Dismounting
So, I was busy humming along, dividing some hosts between a production vCenter server and the new disaster recovery (DR) vCenter server that I had just installed. As part of this process, I had mounted DR datastore, moved the virtual machines that I needed to run in DR over to their new locations, and was […]