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You cannot remove a host - VDS in use

Hello there, I wanted to do some serious playing with vSphere 6 to do my VCP6-DCV delta exam.  I have heard it is harder then expected.  Plus, some of the stuff in 6.0 Update 1 is exciting so I want

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My very weird lab issue - a not fun lab story

This is one of the weirder issues I have had to deal with (and if we ever drink together I can share some really weird issues - some problems involving steel, and some salt in fact). Things are working again,

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503 Service Unavailable … false _port=9090

Hello all, I have not worked in my home lab for a week or so, with this darn heat wave (right now it is 31 degrees C) I wanted to make sure some of my hosts were in standby mode

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Internal error has occured - unable to load resource….

After you upgrade your vSphere 5.5 U2d vCenter to vSphere 6, the very first time you log in you get right after the log in an error like below. This error occurs a lot.  Really a lot.  It occurs on

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sysprep executed properly only three times - what’s up about that?

Hi all, In my template article I talk about doing sysprep before you turn the VM into a template.  I got a tweet from Josh Cohen that said sysprep can only be used three times before it will error out. 

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Invalid product ID key causes Win2K8 to reboot repeatedly during deployment

Hello all, I had to do a test last night, and I had some problems deploying a new virtual machine from my template.  The error was during the sysprep phase and was Windows could not parse or process the unattended

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