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CentOS 7 for Building Virtual Appliance

CentOS 7 for Building Virtual Appliance CentOS 7 for Building Virtual Appliance I started to play with CentOS 7 recently because I wanted to use it for one of my appliance products. Naturally, I installed the minimum version of the CentOS 7.0. While it takes time, the installation process is pretty straight-forward like installing any […]

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Upgrade to vSphere ESXi 6 via command line

Upgrade to vSphere ESXi 6 via command line Upgrade to vSphere ESXi 6 via command line The other day i had to upgrade my labESXi mgmt serverfrom version 5.5 to 6.0 host via the command prompt and it’s actually pretty straight forward. I took the following steps to perform the upgrade: Download the latest ESXi […]

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Ready, Set, .Net

Ready, Set, .Net Ready, Set, .Net The excitement of the new .NET Framework 4.6 and Visual Studio 2015 is in the air. The scheduled release date has arrived. Here are some exciting new features that will be sure to change the .NET developer community. Although there are many more, I have picked 10 favorites. VMware […]

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Springs.io Launches First Pay-As-You-Use…

Springs.io Launches First Pay-As-You-Use Reactive Cloud Springs.io Launches First Pay-As-You-Use… Springs.io , a new simple, container-based cloud infrastructure service with usage-based billing, was launched today. As the only pure-play… Read more at VMblog.com. VMware Advocacy

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AutoLab 2.6 on Ravello – Build the vCenter &…

AutoLab 2.6 on Ravello – Build the vCenter & Hosts (Part 3) AutoLab 2.6 on Ravello – Build the vCenter &… Part 3 of this series has been a long time coming. I’d been running into some serious problems getting vCenter to build properly, and then I ran out of hours on my promotional hours […]

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The Score Is High. Who’s Holding On?

The Score Is High. Who’s Holding On? The Score Is High. Who’s Holding On? If you haven’t had the chance to read Jeff Fry’s treatise on why the CCIE written should be dropped, do it now. He raises some very valid points about relevancy and continuing education and how the written exam is approaching … […]

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