Hey all, After searching the internet for a bit, I wasn’t able to find a true and tried “perfect” way of connecting to vSphere API using PHP5/SOAP. Continuing my research, reading known issue guides from VMware, and scouring the web, I was finally able to connect with the script I wrote below. This basic login […]
Companies have a lot of data- it’s just a fact. These include financial records, customer information, purchase history, employee information, business files, and the information that your business functions on every day. What a lot of people don’t realize, however, is that your data is vulnerable to loss if it’s confined to a single computer […]
We’re excited to announce that Helixstorm, a leading provider of virtualization and cloud computing solutions, was named to CRN’s 2012 annual Next-Gen 250 list. CRN annually identifies the top 250 solution providers that are on the cutting edge of technology and business model shifts. These organizations are notably driven by their focus on markets such […]
This post will be a bit more detailed, but for I’d figure I’d save everyone a HUGE HEADACHE. cupsaddsmb made me want to put a bullet in my head for over a day, so hopefully this packaged /usr/share/cups/drivers folder will save you the TIME (AND PAIN)! Here you go! Move the drivers.tar.gz to /usr/share/cups and […]
Being the linux user that I am – me not having a start menu and having to navigate through the horrendous metro interface is SUPER annoying. Thankfully, VMware has saved the day. Do the following steps: 1) Install VMware Workstation 2) Curse Microsoft and install Windows 8 (Cursing is mandatory) 3) Install VMware Tools AS […]
Here at Helixstorm, we spend a lot of time telling customers how great virtual desktops are. And with good reason: they significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for your company computers, can be easily managed from one central location, and are incredibly flexible because you can access them with a lot of different devices. […]
Recently I ran across an issue installing ESXi on an HP DL380p Gen8. The VMware ESXi ISO image does not have the latest NIC and RAID Controller drivers to allow for install. The HP packaged VMware ESXi ISO has the proper drivers, but it is an older ESXi build. When you patch the HP VMware […]
Cloud computing has many advantages- it’s easy to maintain, very flexible and scalable, and brings significant cost savings to businesses hosting their data in this type of environment. The cloud, however, is not fail-safe. We saw that over the weekend, when Amazon’s Northern Virginia data center suffered a power outage resulting in service interruption for companies hosted […]
I was doing some maintenance and wanted to clean up some old NFS mounts we had on our ESXi server. Here’s a one-liner you can slap in PowerCLI once you are auth’d to vCenter. It will essentially list all VMs that have an ISO mounted. Pretty easy! I was then able to umount the CD/DVD […]
On May 7th 2012, DataCore Software released a plug-in for SANSymphony-V and VMware vSphere 4.1 and 5.0 and greater. The plug-in adds a SANSymphony-V tab to your VMware vSphere Client. This allows for integration between SANSymphony-V and VMware. From the tab within the vSphere Client you can perform the following operations: Create virtual disks and present […]