vCenter Configuration Manager releases updated DISA guidelines (VMware...
A quick Friday note to point out that VMware Center for Policy and Compliance recently announced latest content update for Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in vCenter Configuration Manager...
View ArticleSecurityAutomata: A Reference For Security Automation… (Rational Survivability)
Posted in ArticlesThe SecurityAutomata Project is themed toward enabling consumers, service and technology solution providers to collectively share knowledge on how to automate and focus on the...
View ArticleOpenFlow Is the New “Cloud…” (Rational Survivability)
Posted in QuotesOpenFlow is the new Cloud. It takes people 30 minutes to define why it's different, why you should care & if you can buy it at Fry's. ~
View ArticleSeeding The Cloud. The Conversation (VM /ETC)
Last week I was in New York, NY for the vPower Tour as a guest speaker. My Northeast teeamates (we spell it that way at Veeam) asked me to present as a blogger, so I put together “Seeding The Cloud....
View ArticleVMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference – Book (A. Mikkelsen)
If you haven’t read or read about the must have PowerCLI book “VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration“, by Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf, Glen Sizemore, Arnim van Lieshout and...
View ArticleVMware releases vSphere 4.1 hardening guide (A. Mikkelsen)
In April VMware released their hardening guide for vSphere 4.1 (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-15413) , now the have also released a free tool to check your vSphere installations against their...
View ArticleKnow Your Social Media Audience: Recent @vCloud Survey Results (VMware vCloud...
In the past year we've grown @vCloud to over 11,000 followers thanks to your support. The growth of the VMware vCloud ecosystem has been very exciting, and as our cloud story evolved, so did our social...
View Article7 Expert Tips for Managing vSphere Remotely (ESX Virtualization)
A new Free resource PDF is available. Managing vSphere in remote offices can be challenging. A virtualization expert and blogger Christian Mohn which works as a IT administrator for Norvegian shipping...
View ArticleTop 5 Planet V12N blog posts for week 25 (VMTN Blog)
You guys are making it difficult for me again, this week there were a lot of great posts from the community and it was hard to pick just 5 posts. Andy Grant - Some Answers About Queues: LUN and HBA...
View ArticleVirtualizing desktops or applications? Watch software licensing terms...
I'm working on ways to better deliver applications to my users. We have a number of licensing agreements that allow concurrency -- that is, we have a license limit. We can install the software on as...
View ArticleCreating a VMware Virtual (Home) Lab for VMware VCP & VCAP - Step Three: HA...
This article is part of my Virtual Lab Series. In the first part of this series I discussed the over all design of this lab.In the second part of this series I discussed how I installed ESXi.In this...
View ArticleWeekly Twitter Updates (Virtualization Information)
RT @sfoskett: RT @TechFieldDay: Watch the entire @ZertoCorp #TechFieldDay presentation and see what all the fu… (cont) http://deck.ly/~0jOY4 # RT @h0bbel: http://bit.ly/mhD5Qg "Market reacts to Citrix...
View ArticleReducing the amount of RAM for vCenter Orchestrator (Technodrone)
****** Disclaimer ***** This is not recommended by VMware and I am also pretty sure it is not supported either, so if you make this change then do so at your own risk. The vCenter Orchestrator...
View ArticleInfoSecFail: The Problem With Big Data Is Little Data (Rational Survivability)
Posted in Articles(on my iPhone while my girls shop…) While virtualization and cloud security concerns continue to catch the imaginative pause of pundits everywhere as they focus on how roles and...
View ArticleBrownbags are coming to Europe (PlanetVM)
Those of you with long memories will remember that I used to be involved in Cody’s Brownbag series of online training sessions. That is until he moved the the sessions to 1am in the morning GMT/BST....
View ArticleNew VMware vCenter updates: What they mean to you (VMware tips and tricks)
VMware vCenter Orchestrator has new plug-ins, and vCenter Converter 5.0 is out in beta. These new tools give admins more VMware management options. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add...
View ArticleAnalogies and The Principle of Least Privilege (VMware Security Blog)
Ana Seijas here -- one of the newest members of the VMware Security & Compliance team. So I've been doing security for a long time...started as an external systems auditor and then onto internal...
View ArticleIn Praise of Static Methods (DoubleCloud)
In object-oriented programming, static methods are the methods that are defined with static keyword. They don’t have access to non-static instance variables. This very limitation can be an easy cure...
View ArticleVirtualisation 101 – Creating VMs Part 1 (PlanetVM)
To continue the introduction to Virtualisation by Simon we now move on to Creating virtual machines. Building a shiny new VMware cluster is only the start of the journey to virtualisation – the...
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