As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

I actually posted this in the VMWare ESXi forum, but I'm only getting responses back from 1 person and I'd like a second opinion. Here's the link to the original post there: I'm running ESXi "free" ...

Is it possible to change the Gateway IP of an ESXi server without putting it into maintenance mode? I have a dozen or so VMs that are hosted on it. Recent changes to the LAN addressing scheme have ...

There is actually quite a bit of VM info that is hidden from view, but that can be exposed through the Get-VM cmdlet if you know how. Brien walks you through the steps. PowerShell makes it really easy ...