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#LonVMUG Time again

Its that time again. London VMUG happening next week on the 25th. The line up looks like this:

  • VMTurbo Plenary Presentation – Andrew Mallaband
  • Don’t Do Virtual Networking, Do Cloud Networking – Greg Ferro, packetpushers.net
  • The Virtual Community, Social Media & You – Darren and Gregg
  • How InfoSec Can Improve Your Love Life – Barry Coatsworth
  • A Puppet Primer – Robbie Jerrom, VMware
  • Nimble Storage Presentation – Nick Dyer
  • Making Cloud Storage Easy to Use- Hans de Leenheer, Veeam
  • VMware Horizon Update – Peter von Oven, VMware
  • vCAC Part Deux, The Return – Kim Ranyard, VMware
  • SDN For Beginners – Dave Burgess, VMware
  • Atlantis Computing Lab
  • Heterogeneous vCD – Stuart Thompson and Lee Harris
  • Onward Drinks at Pavilion End

I should be there and looking forward to the presentation from Greg Ferro and the VCAC preso.

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vCloud vs DPM vs DVS Observation

Over the Easter holiday I turned off my home lab which includes vSphere and vCloud. I powered it down using methods which I thought best for different aspects of my lab so for example if vApps/VMs were under the control of vCloud Director I used VCD to shut them down. After returning I attempted to power up my lab but I noticed that vApps/VMs in vCloud failed to start with the following error:

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