CTOBOB TECHNOLOGY PODCAST talks about CASL Canada’s new Anti-Spam Legislation with Peter Clausi CTOBOB TECHNOLOGY PODCAST Host: Bob Pellerin Guest: Peter Clausi, , B.A., J.D. Topic: BYOD
Don’t miss the VMware event Feb 9, 2016!
Be the first to hear the latest news about how VMware’s One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device™ architecture for IT is helping enable the digital enterprise from mobile devices to the data center and the cloud. This two-part online event will inspire, motivate, and deliver the elements you need to move your IT agenda forward…
VMware VSphere vCenter 6.0 Appliance Installation Adventures
It took a long while longer than expected to get back to doing a serious lab trial. We wiped everything and put evaluation versions of version 6 update 1. Here are some observations.
VMware vSphere Client 6 is very slow and hangs with Windows 10
Issue: VMware vSphere Client 6 takes a long time to open and hangs when trying to connect to the vCenter or directly to an ESXi host. Reported on Windows 10. Description: We encountered this problem after updating our machines to windows 10 and our lab server to vmware vSphere 6. The client installed but took…
Windows 10 breaks VMware workstation 11 and 12 bridge networking
I updated a lot of computers to Windows 10 recently as everyone else most likely has, and I ran into a bug which prevents vms running on VMware Workstation 11 (and previous versions) from using bridged networking (bridge connection) to the Network Interface Card (NIC). It turns out that Microsoft has seen fit to prevent…
Microsoft Windows 10 released! Useful shortcuts to know.
Even though the betas were rock solid for us, it appears a lot of people are reporting a rather generic message during downloading or installing of Windows 10. The message, as displayed here, is simply telling you that “Something Happened”. It certainly makes me long for the Basic days when a line number would appear…
CTOBOB Technology Podcast 016 – BYOD with Acronis
CTOBOB TECHNOLOGY PODCAST talks BYOD with Mike Christensen (Acronis) CTOBOB TECHNOLOGY PODCAST Host: Bob Pellerin Guest: Mike Christensen, Director Sales at Acronis Topic: BYOD
Import OVF Template – Unsupported hardware family ‘vmx-10’ error ESXi 5.5
I spent hours exporting a virtual machine (vm) to an OVF format only to discover that VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 gives me an error when I tried to deploy it. Error message: Unsupported hardware family ‘vmx-10’ error Cause: You created the VM using Workstation 11 and didn’t set the vm version to 10 or below before creating…
Intel i217-LM network adapter dropping connections
Issue: You notice intermittant drops in connections on the network, slow network connection or complete loss of connection. Affected: Intel i217-LM NIC (Used by HP, Lenovo, Dell in their recent Desktops) If you have a lenovo. HP or Dell business class desktop, it’s very likely that you have an Intel i217-LM network adapter. With more expensive…
Intel now offers an 18 core processor
Intel has released 12 new 22-nanometer Xeon E7 v3 processors. The power consuption will be as predicted with a range of 115W to 165W. If you need more processing power you’ll find the number of cores going from the low end Quad to an 18 core superstar. These new processors support both DDR3 and DDR4…