June EMC/VMware Webcastssolid (Virtual Geek)
In June – we’re covering VMware-centric backup, VMware/EMC sharing best practices for Oracle on vSphere performance and provisioning, a Unified Infrastructure Manager update (cool), Using Recoverpoint...
View ArticleChinwag with Mike – Scott Lowe on VMware HA Stretched Clusters [Episode 57]...
This is a very special chinwag, one that see’s the return of EMC vSpecialist Scott Lowe. I first saw Scott deliver this session at the Charlotte Regional User Summit in May – and afterwards sought him...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for Week Ending 6/11/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
VMware Consolidated Backup Unable to view all the virtual machine drives in the virtual machine backup directory (1039078) Date Published: 6/8/2011 VMware Data Recovery VMware Data Recovery reclaim...
View ArticleVDI Market Shares (Virtualization Journey)
Over the last couple of years the buzz and expectations around the Virtual Desktop market have increased steadily. One of the questions that I am asked frequently is how big the market is and who has...
View ArticleLinux kernel update provides open source virtualization users with a choice...
During the week of Citrix Synergy, much of the Xen community was looking to the news coming out of the show around what Citrix and its ecosystem of partners were doing within the XenServer, XenDesktop,...
View ArticleTaking a closer look at sizing the Java process (Business Critical Applications)
In this blog I would like to drill down with an actual sizing example based on the information presented in a prior blog here. Let’s take the generalized equation presented in Figure-1 below and show...
View ArticleIntroduction to vFabric SQLFire (VMwareTV)
Introduction to vFabric SQLFire Jags Ramnarayan, VMware SQLFire Chief Architect, introduces what vFabric SQLFire is and describes key capabilites in this short, 5 minute video. From: vmwaretv Views:...
View ArticlevSphere Licensing Mind Map (VMware Support Insider)
Today's mind map has articles for troubleshooting the licensing of VMware product (enterprise and desktop alike). It is slightly different from the others we've recently posted, in that most topics are...
View ArticleMy first TechFieldDay (PlanetVM)
I have just come back from Boston MA where I have been a delegate on TechFieldDay 6. now this was my first ever TFD, and I would like to thank Steven Foskett for firstly organising these fantastic...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 Las Vegas – Video Trailer (NTPRO.NL)
I’m very excited about this year’s VMworld conference to be held in Las Vegas at the 29th of August 2011. Not only because it’s the first time I’m attending as a speaker but also because I’ll try to...
View ArticleWhy VMware is Acquiring Pioneering IT Financial Management Vendor, Digital...
If you’ve heard the recent news that VMware has signed a definitive letter of intent to acquire Digital Fuel you might be asking yourself a simple question: Why? After all, isn’t VMware an...
View ArticleConsiderations for DMZ, iSCSI and Private vDS on same ESXi/Cluster (VMware...
Before we start on this topic, a disclaimer here: This is not the only configuration that can be used for vDS switches that is used to connect to a DMZ, iSCSI and Public networks. This is merely a...
View ArticleHow to update your Openfiler USB installation for better performance (VMwire)
Previously I wrote an article on How to install and run Openfiler on a USB key. I thought that everything was working fine but eventually found that NFS and CIFS performance was too slow. Upon reading...
View ArticleFree Tool: VUEM - VirtuAll User Environment Manager (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
Pierre Marmignon has released VUEM - VirtuAll User Environment Manager. VUEM is an environment management tool for virtual desktops but it can also run on traditional desktops. VUEM works on an agent...
View ArticleVMware to acquire Digital Fuel (VMware tips and tricks)
VMware's latest acquisition, reportedly worth $85 million, will bolster chargeback and service-level reporting within VMware’s portfolio, the company claims. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to...
View ArticleTop five lessons learned from a virtualization veteran (VMware tips and tricks)
Everyone knows the basic pros and cons of virtualization, but lessons about 100% virtualization and virtual infrastructure design are learned only through experience. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add...
View ArticleDRaaS - Disaster Recovery as a Service (vSamurai)
Recently, following my blog article on Real Life DR, I presented our experience using VMware's SRM (Site Recovery Manager) product during the Japan earthquake to a panel of VMware customers at their...
View ArticleMoving Virtual Machine to Distributed Virtual Switch (DoubleCloud)
The distributed virtual switch introduced in vSphere 4 has many benefits over the traditional switch. For one thing, you no longer have possible glitches with live migrating virtual machines from one...
View ArticleVMware Security Advisory:- VMSA-2011-0009 (PlanetVM)
This one is a little late, but I have been gallivanting at Tech Field Day in Boston. one good thing it is a brand new advisory. Synopsis: VMware hosted product updates, ESX patches and VI Client update...
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