In this blog post, I'll show you how to quickly and easily get up and running with [email protected], in the fight against COVID-19. With the COVID-19 pandemic that is currently sweeping across the world, many of you, like myself, are wondering what can we do to help? The good news is that there is something we can do, by donating some of the compute horsepower of our PC or laptop to a global initiative called [email protected] So what is ‘[email protected]?’ It’s a global-scale distributed … [Read more...]
Studying for your VMware VCP 5 Certification – Part 1
It’s that time again where I need to look at upgrading my VMware VCP certification, this time from VCP4 to VCP5. Admittedly I am a little late, as due to personal and work commitments I haven’t had any time spare to start studying for my VCP5 exam so am now in a rush to try and make it happen, though I’m guessing that I am not alone in my plight. Those of you who currently hold a VCP4 are probably aware that you have until the 29th February 2012 to sit an exam to upgrade to VCP5. Book … [Read more...]
Unable to connect to the MKS – VMware vSphere Console Fix
Here’s an old favourite of mine. When trying to open a console session to a virtual machine within the VMware vSphere Client you may receive a black screen and the following error message: “Unable to connect to the MKS: Host address lookup for server”, “failed: No such host is known”. Although there are a couple of things that can cause this error the most common reason is that the host is unable to resolve the name of the VMware ESX or ESXi host on which this VM is running. As you’d expect … [Read more...]
How To Grab An Expired Domain Name.
Looking for that perfect domain name? This useful article by Mike Davidson explains some of the tricks and processes involved with grabbing an expired domain name. Technorati Tags: how to,grab,expired,domain name,trick … [Read more...]