Automation 101 – Rescan HBAs (Orchestrator & PowerCLI) (Professional VMware)
No story this time around, just some HBA rescanning love: PowerCLI Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba vCenter Orchestrator In the vCO Client, open “Workflows” & Drill down to “Library...
View ArticleVMware View 5 to add profiles, PCoIP and client support (VMware tips and tricks)
VMware will deliver some long-awaited features in View 5, but customers of the VDI product won't get everything they ask for. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
View ArticlePlaying god with VMware host resources (VMware tips and tricks)
The first commandment of allocating VMware host resources: Thou shall not accept ESXi’s default CPU and memory assignments. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
View Article@Beaker Performs A vMotion… (Rational Survivability)
Posted in ArticlesThe hundreds of tweets of folks guessing as to where I might end up may have been a clue. Then again, some of you are wise to steer well and clear of The Twitters. In case you haven’t...
View ArticleVDI Flash Calculator v2.3 Released + Manual (myvirtualcloud.net)
I have just uploaded a new release of the online VDI Flash Calculator. This new release offers support to two key features in VMware View that had not before been covered by the calculator. The first...
View ArticleVDI Flash Calculator Manual (myvirtualcloud.net)
I have been asked few times about the options and features provided by the VDI Flash Calculator. I finally decided to put together a quick reference guide that I am naming as “Manual” to help you...
View ArticleThoughts and observations from HP Discover (vSphere-land)
I’m back from spending a great week at the HP Discover conference in Las Vegas and I though I would provide my thoughts and observations from it. Before I begin let me disclose that HP paid for all...
View ArticleLondon VMUG–July 14th Signups Open (J.F.V.I.)
The London VMUG just keeps on getting better doesn’t it ? What do you mean you don’t know ? Well for a start its now a pretty much full day event – Complete with its own Genius bar staffed by VMware...
View ArticleCode snippets : Get VMs that triggered vCenter Alarms (vCO Team)
If you ever wanted to start a workflow based on a VM triggering an alarm in vCenter the solution is a few click away.The following action get all VMs that triggered alarms from any vCenter vCO is...
View ArticleI’m presenting at the London VMware User Group, 14 July 2011 – register now!...
The previous London VMware User Group may still be fresh in your mind with a fantastic cloud focused day but the next one is already planned and scheduled for the 14th July so off with your head if you...
View ArticleVMware vCenter 4.1 GUI issue on shares (Gabe's Virtual World)
When checking a customers environment, I discovered a strange GUI issue in vCenter regarding CPU shares for a VM. I usually use a PowerShell script to check if the customer has set any limits,...
View ArticledynaTrace Advances the State of the Art in Real User Monitoring...
RUM (also called End User Experience Management) is becoming a critical feature of modern APM solutions. This is being driven by the emergence of rich client platforms like Ajax, Adobe Flash, Adobe...
View ArticleA Christmas Story? - Making the Case for Virtual Desktops at Tyler ISD...
Guest Blog Post By John Orbaugh; Director of Technology Services, Tyler Independent School District (Part 2 in a series – continued from “Making the Case for Virtual Desktops at Tyler ISD”) In order to...
View ArticleJuly London VMware User Group Meeting (vinf.net)
Quick heads-up it’s not long now until the next London VMware User Group (VMUG) meeting on 14th July, I’m also pleased to announce that I have joined the steering committee and will be helping out...
View ArticleQuantum acquires Pancetera (virtualization.info)
Quantum, a company which provides backup, recovery and archive software has acquired Pancetera, the company which provides management and optimization for virtual storage in VMware for an ammound of...
View ArticleByteGrid Launched (virtualization stuff)
<img>I thought it was high time I got around to announcing the launch of my company - ByteGrid. As the name implies it is the fusion of data (Byte) and Electricity & Telecom infrastructure...
View ArticleVMware ESXi Total lockdown – what’s that? (ESX Virtualization)
For paranoiacs? Not only. If you really want to close down access to your ESXi servers and make your network more secure, you might missed that there is a Total Lockdown Mode available in ESXi...
View ArticleVMware PSO NEMEA Twitter List (VMwire)
A list of VMware PSO consultants covering NEMEA that are on Twitter, sorted alphabetically by Twitter ID. Follow us for tweets from the real world. Twitter ID Name Blog Follow @ady189 Adrian...
View ArticleWhere Does it All Come From? (Technodrone)
Today I received an email with something that I found very moving - and I was also able to project onto the subject of virtualization. Here is the original text (slightly altered). The Scope of...
View ArticleView 4.6 vs XenDesktop 5 (VMGuru.nl)
The competition in the VDI space is fierce and VMware is slowly closing the gap with the features their products are offering compared to the competition. Although the gap is closing VMware is still...
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