Talking HP Discover 2011 (Blade Watch)
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-hp-virtualsystem-060811.html and http://www.hp.com/go/discover LAS VEGAS, Nev., June 8, 2011 — Today at HP DISCOVER 2011, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the...
View ArticleIomega StorCenter px6-300d Network Storage - Adding iSCSI Drives (NTPRO.NL)
<img>I’m very busy with preparing my upcoming "Mythbusters Goes Virtual" VMworld session which will go deep into a few specific well known vSphere myths. The myth busting will be done by Mattias...
View ArticleTech Field Day 6 – Solarwinds (Hyper9) presentation (SeanClark.us)
Watching and following the Solarwinds presentation for Tech Field Day 6. Wish I could be there in person, but the live streaming will have to be a substitute. Check the Tech Field Day 6 page to view...
View ArticlevSoup Split-Brain Hypervisors? #11 (vSoup podcast)
Episode 11 - Chris, Ed & Christian talk about life after VMware with Scott Merril who has recently moved from ESX to "other" hypervisors.
View ArticleCluster reset basic steps – my cluster is broken (Blade Watch)
Got a phone call from a colleague who’s started at a medium sized business outside London, their Windows 2003 cluster was rather unresponsive, the resources were in a hung state trying to come online...
View ArticleA week in virtualization (VMTN Blog)
Weekly virtualization news, as featured on the Community Roundtable podcast. On Facebook, the vCloud team has shared a cool video showing how to configure firewall settings in vCloud Express, and also...
View ArticleIMPORTANT: VMAX epack and vSphere hotfix (Virtual Geek)
Ok – I made a post here about a couple of issues. The first wasn’t really an EMC issue per se, but since the elab support matrix is followed to the letter, and there was a known timing issue with...
View ArticleVDS vs. Cisco N1K (VMware Networking Blog)
By Shudong Zhou, Sr. Staff Engineer, ESX Networking I often get questions about the difference between VMware Distributed Switch (VDS) and Cisco Nexus 1000v (N1K). At a high level, VDS presents an...
View ArticleVMware launches Converter 5.0 beta: Virtualization news in brief (VMware tips...
The new version of vCenter Converter Standalone will optimize disk partition alignment, Virsto snares $12 million in funding, and VMware partners with Hitachi on cloud services. Add to digg Add to...
View ArticleHitachi and VMware announce strategic partnership to empower their end user...
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-hitachi-060911.html Hitachi to Deliver Cloud Solutions Based on VMware vSphere and the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform to Financial...
View ArticleBug: Host Profiles forgets AD OU structure (Think©Loud)
Lately I’ve been playing around with VMware vSphere Host Profiles. This feature creates baseline configurations for your ESX / ESXi host based on a reference host you configured in advance. [...]
View ArticleVMware’s SpringSource Ecosystem (Virtualization Practice)
As mentioned in my previous piece I've been doing some prototyping using SpringSource's Grails. Grails can be thought of as the top of the stack. If you pick up Grails you would naturally pull in the...
View ArticleA look inside the upcoming vSphere clustering book (Frank Denneman)
I just received the second proof copy of the new book and I’m really (really) stoked about the book. The full color print is awesome and truly adds that special feeling to the book. I’m so excited how...
View ArticlevSoup Special Edition #1: vExpert Lowdown (vSoup podcast)
The vSoup team hunt down John Troyer for an update on the vExpert process.
View ArticleTech Field Day Videos & Live Streaming from “vTechFieldDay” (VMware Videos)
Tech Field Day #6 is in Boston this week and they have been posting some amazing recorded videos and their live streaming has been phenomenal. In these videos, you’ll see TFD leader Stephen Foskett,...
View ArticleNew VNX/vSphere Techbook published (Virtual Geek)
This is the authoritative EMC guide to VNX and vSphere. Check it out here: This one has updated guidance on sizing (hint: make big datastores see page 43), updated guidance on SIOC (hint: always turn...
View ArticleForce a VM to boot from several devices (vCO Team)
One thing vCO users and administrators always ask for is changing the boot order for virtual machines. The bad news is: It is part of the BIOS of the virtual machine (.nvram). But based on this...
View ArticlevCenter Integration Mantra (vNinja.net)
During Tech Field Day #6 in Boston one particular general feature request has become increasingly prominent; Can we have it inside the vCenter client? In short, what we want is for all those great...
View ArticleHow to setup Kiwi Syslog server as a destination for ESXi log files (ESX...
KIWI Syslog server to collect ESXi logs. In my article about configuring vMA as a destination of log files of ESXi hosts I explained how to put in place a solution provided by VMware to collect those...
View ArticleNew Solarwinds Virtualization Manager Videos (VMware Videos)
Being a video training author myself, I applaud any company that posts free video training on their products. I wanted to take a moment to point out that Solarwinds has been posting some very nice...
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