Windows – Jase's Place

May 18, 2025

Are vVols an Easy Way off of vSphere?

by Jase McCartyApril 16, 2024May 29, 20240

I remember when vVols were introduced over a decade ago. To me, the promise of getting all the array side benefits of native volumes with …

A few BGInfo VBScripts for my VMs

by Jase McCartyFebruary 22, 2013March 21, 201322

I saw Ivo Beerens’ blog post about using BGInfo and VMware View: Display the protocol used on the VMware View desktop background and it made …

Unsolicited Remote Assistance – Windows Vista/7

by Jase McCartyOctober 8, 20108

Several years ago, I came across the need to leverage Windows XP’s Remote Assistance feature. I came across a way, in XP, to do this …

Set Guest OS I/O Timeout Settings via PowerShell

by Jase McCartyApril 29, 2010March 29, 201216

Back in October 2009, I wrote a post on how to remotely set the TimeoutValue for the Disk service in Windows per NetApp’s best practices. …

Spyware/Virus Removal Technique

by Jase McCartyJanuary 3, 20102

I normally blog about virtualization topics, but I saw a tweet from a guy I follow, and noticed that he spent some money getting his …

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