VMware released Service Manager 9.0 vCenter Orchestrator connector (vCO Team)
VMware has released a Service Manager Integration Platform connector allowing Service Manager to leverage vCenter Orchestrator. <img> First a little product introduction: VMware Service Manager...
View ArticleLeast Used API in vSphere (DoubleCloud)
Last week I was extremely busy working on the VI(vSphere) Java API 3.0 (codename: Crescendo) whose main theme to support the next release of vSphere. To my surprise, I caught on an API that should have...
View ArticleVMware Users Group (VMUG) – London, July 2011 (TechHead)
It’s almost time for another London VMware Users Group (VMUG) and this next VMUG falls on July 14th (2011). If you haven’t been to a VMUG then I highly recommend you (work allowing) head along as it...
View ArticleVCP4-DT (Beta) passed (That's My View)
It took a long time, but now I’m sure that I’ve passed the VCP4-DT Beta exam. Thanks to Eric Sloof who gave me the tip to check the www.vue.com online portal for seeing my results. The portal says...
View ArticleVirtual Desktop Vendor Preference (Virtualization Journey)
In this previous post, I shared some data from Morgan Stanley about current VDI deployments that shows VMware and Citrix having an even 40%-40% shares of the installed base. Clearly a very competitive...
View ArticleVMware releases 3 new vCenter Orchestrator Plug-ins (virtualization.info)
VMware has released 3 new Plug-ins for its orchestration tool, vCenter Orchestrator. The plugins are for HTTP-REST, SOAP and vCenter Update Manager (VUM). The HTTP-REST and SOAP Plug-ins plug-ins allow...
View ArticlePaper: A Guide to Hyper-V Dynamic Memory (virtualization.info)
Aidan Finn, a Microsoft MVP with he Virtual Machine expertise has released a whitepaper titled: A Guide to Hyper-V Dynamic Memory, Understanding, enabling, and configuring Windows Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases first beta of System Center Orchestrator 2012...
Microsoft today released the first beta of the successor of System Center Opalis, now called System Center Orchestrator 2012. Opalis Software was acquired by Microsoft in December 2009, and Microsoft...
View ArticleDell a Virtualization Management Leader? (Virtualization Practice)
The Dell VIS stack (Advanced Infrastructure Manager, Self-Service Creator and Director) now represents the most functionally rich virtualization management offering on the market, as it is sourced from...
View ArticleLessons learned: Data Migrations (VMs or otherwise) (VMwareInfo.com)
imageWhether you are moving files, Virtual Machines or other types of data from SAN to SAN or LUN to LUN, there are a few guiding principles that can help prevent long late nights of troubleshooting...
View ArticleThoughts on VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (Gabe's Virtual World)
At Techfield day, VMware presented to us delegates their Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) and as expected all these geeks where very interested to see what VMware had to offer. Unfortunately the...
View ArticleHyper-V 3.0 – What’s Coming? (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
Robert McLaws at Windows Now released a report recently that shows off a number of the new features that are coming with Hyper-V 3.0. It looks like Microsoft is keeping very, very busy working to close...
View ArticleSIOC and Adaptive Queue Depth testing on iSCSI LUNs (ESX Virtualization)
SIOC and Adaptive Queue Depth testing on iSCSI LUNs This is a guest post by Andy Grant. This is a continuation of the post Some Answers About Queues: LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts. Questions...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for Week Ending 6/18/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
Apache HTTP Server Obtaining a Web server stack trace in Linux/Unix (2000998) Date Published: 6/13/2011 Apache Tomcat Verifying the installed version of Tomcat (2000579) Date Published: 6/14/2011...
View ArticlevCenter Orchestrator Plugin’s Page (Professional VMware)
I’m likely late to the party here… the vCO product page now has a new tab: That’s right, a page dedicated to vCO plugins. The only bits missing are the VIX plugin bits from the labs page.
View ArticleGetting vSphere to 100% Storage uptime (PlanetVM)
I got this though from Starwindsoftware today, now normally I would not bother forwarding these on but I saw the title of their webinar “Getting vSphere to 100% Storage uptime”, and I thought now...
View ArticleHyper-V 3.0 in Windows 8: New features emerge (Server Virtualization Blog)
The summer hypervisor season is in full swing, and three blockbusters are capturing the attention of fans and critics alike. We already know about the upcoming releases of VMware vSphere 5 and Citrix...
View ArticleHow to calculate electrical costs for cooling and power consumption (VMGuru.nl)
For putting together a business case costs and revenues are an important part of it. If you want to calculate the direct resource costs associate with hosting a server in your data center, you want to...
View ArticleBrownBag – VDI & Storage! (Professional VMware)
Woot! We’ve touched on storage before (here) but we have not yet scratched the surface of VDI let alone how it effects storage. More than that, we’ll have some VDI experts from around the community to...
View ArticleVirtual Desktop Vendor Preference (That's My View)
Vittorio Viarengo again published an interesting article which describes the current situation on the VDI market. The information in the article comes from a Goldman Sachs survey which was published in...
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