Cisco UCS Service Profiles and Flight Plans (J.F.V.I.)
I’ve spent more than my usual amount of time in an around airports this week – Travelling to and from the Tech Field Day event in Boston , then hung around with a few of the other delegates before...
View ArticlePowerShell or PowerCLI Fanboy ? (Virtu-Al)
Are you a PowerShell or PowerCLI Fanboy ? Whilst messing with a 3D image program the other day I quickly put myself some images together to use as a background for my iPad, I showed these to a couple...
View ArticleLondon VMUG – July 14 (RTFM Education)
Last week saw the announcement of the new London VMware User Group Meeting. I will be speaking myself on the topic of the “Future of SRM”, a sneaky peak at the future features of VMware’s Site...
View ArticleTop 5 Planet V12N blog posts for week 23 (VMTN Blog)
It’s a busy time for me being the end of the quarter, and we have tons of events going on in my patch right now. Last week I presented at the Cincinnati and Louisville Knowledge Series events on VMware...
View ArticleMulti-Hypervisor Management and the Future (vNinja.net)
In a previous post, vCenter Integration Mantra, I made the point that vSphere vAdmins wants the 3rd party modules to integrate into the vCenter client and show their delicious addon-value there, and...
View Article“Seed The Cloud” Presentation: “Feel The Power in vPower” New York, NY Event...
This coming Thursday (June 16, 2011) I will be in New York, NY for the “Feel the Power in vPower” Veeam Tour. Although I am a Veeam employee and this is a Veeam sponsored event, I am not there to...
View ArticleThe Ubiquitous Approach to Infrastructure (Virtualization Information)
We saw many presentations at Tech Field Day, and probably the one point that raised the most amount of feedback from the delegates was giving the administrators the freedom to choose how they wanted...
View ArticleHow to install and run Openfiler on a USB key (VMwire)
Install Openfiler onto the USB Key Disconnect all hard disks from the server. Boot from the Openfiler CD and install Openfiler by invoking the linux expert command and installing as normal onto your...
View ArticleVMware troubleshooting done right (VMware tips and tricks)
VMware troubleshooting can seem like an impossible task, even after calling VMware for support. But there are ways to make the VMware troubleshooting process quicker and easier. Add to digg Add to...
View ArticleVMware View 5 wish list items (VMware tips and tricks)
As the release of VMware View 5 approaches, users are still waiting for profile management. Our hosts and expert guest discuss other features on their View 5 wish lists. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon...
View ArticleHow to Import Existing VMs into vCloud Director (Mike D's Blog)
Recently I was asked by a customer how they could import VMs from an existing vSphere environment into a vCloud Director environment. This particular customer is aiming to pull VMs from an existing...
View ArticleUpcoming Denver Regional VMUG - I pity the fool that misses this one...
On Tuesday 6/28 we will be having our first regional VMUG in Denver. A regional VMUG is much bigger than a traditional VMUG and is a full day event. VMware’s MyVMUG group puts a lot of time and effort...
View Article@Veeam Backup Reviews by @DavidMDavis and @JasonBoche (VMware Videos)
Two reviews of Veeam Backup and Replication 5.0 were recently posted by David Davis (that’s me) and Virtualization vEvangelist & VCDX, Jason Boche (@JasonBoche) of Boche.net. The first of these...
View ArticleTagging: What’s the Alternative? (DoubleCloud)
After my last post Tagging: An invisible feature in vSphere, William Lam quickly followed up with another post in his blog, arguing vSphere Tagging Feature Not So Invisible. He made his case by showing...
View ArticleWhy Enterprises aren’t ready for Cloud (RomantT.net)
Service providers have a long way to go before they can use Cloud to aid an enterprise to scale.
View ArticleHow to setup Active Directory authentication on Openfiler (VMwire)
Setup Active Directory Authentication The steps must be performed in this order, otherwise you’ll get a headache trying to work out why you cannot see any Groups listed. Go to Services | Enable...
View ArticleVirsto gets $12 million boost to help push virtualized storage beyond Hyper-V...
Virsto announces a $12 million in Series B venture capital funding and acquisition of EvoStor, a company specializing in storage virtualization technology for VMware environments. Virsto hope these...
View ArticleUnderstanding Isolation Modes in VMware ThinApp (VMware End User Computing)
A recent KBTV video discusses Isolation Modes in VMware ThinApp. Isolation modes allow you to control the degree to which a virtualized application can read from and write to the local, physical PC...
View ArticleRightsizing Your Approach to Desktop Virtualization (VMware End User Computing)
Posted by Brian Gammage Chief Market Technologist, VMware End-User Computing Over the last few weeks I’ve travelled in North America and Europe, meeting with both VMware customers and many of my new...
View ArticleTech Field Day: Some Take Away Thoughts (Virtualization Information)
I was very happy to be included as a delegate for the Tech Field Day in Boston. I really didn’t know what to expect as a first time delegate. Now that its over, I’ve compiled some thoughts about the...
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