Quest released PowerGUI® Pro and PowerGUI® 2.3

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Quest released PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI 2.3. Both get really cool new features. In the Pro version the most changes are done in the MobileShell. In the free version the most changes are done in the support for snippets. And they now support virtualization now with the VMware Powerpack right build in.

If you wanna know more about the changes of PowerGUI visit poshoholic.com.

Cisco UCS and Microsoft Hyper-V R2

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Last week we run our first tests with the Cisco UCS Bladecenter, VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V R2.

I am really excited about the performance and the easy management of the Cisco Bladecenter. Maybe I get some more information about Hyper-V and the UCS out there for next week.

There is also a Microsoft TechNet event next Tuesday:

Cisco Unified Computing System + Microsoft Hyper-V/System Center = die Komplettlösung für Virtual IT und Private Cloud

Activate SSH on ESXi 4.1 via vSphere Client

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Some months ago I wrote a post about how to activate SSH on a ESXi 4.1 via console. But you can also activate SSH with the vSphere Client.

Login to the vSphere Client
Click on the configuration tab
Click on Security profile
Click on Properties
Click on Remote Tech Support (SSH)
Click on Options and choose the startup policy and click start
Now you can verify that the daemon shows as running in the Services Properties window

Updated my iMac to 8GB RAM

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

I just updated the memory of my early 2009 iMac to 8GB. Now I can see a nice performance boost by using my Windows 7 VM for work.

Activated SSH on ESXi 4.1

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

In VMware ESXi 4.0 you needed a small a trick to activated SSH on your Host. In VMware ESXi 4.1 its very easy to activate SSH.

Press F2 to Customize System Settings
Navigate to Troubleshooting Options
Now you can enable Remote Tech Support (SSH)

And by the way, installing ESXi in VMware Fusion on my Mac is really awesome for presentation and testing.

Here is a link how you do this with VMware ESXi 4.0

Tuning a Windows 7 VM

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

I run several Windows Virtual Machines (VMs) on my Mac with VMware Fusion. Even VMware Fusion has a great performance for Virtual Machines I am really happy about every performance increase I can get. I made a list with some tuning tips.

First use Windows Classic Theme
Deactivate System Protection (You also win some Diskspace)
Under System Properties –> Advanced –> Performance –> Choose Adjust for best Performance
Deactivate Autostart objects with MSCONFIG

There are a lot of more tips out there but I thinks these are pretty important.