Selecting and Flashing my Home Lab Router (vspecialist)
It’s taken me a while to select and configure a router for my home lab environment. Part of the problem has been sorting through some conflicting requirements. For instance, I want to keep my power...
View ArticleThin Client vs Zero Client (The SLOG)
I was reading a discussion on an internal mailing list today about the differences between Thin and Zero desktop clients for VDI. I thought I would summaries the discussion and share it with you as it...
View ArticleRecovering Disk Space from Thin-Provisioned Disks (VMBlog)
Recovering Disk Space from Thin-Provisioned Disks A Contributed Article by Robert Nolan, president and CEO of Raxco Software . In a March 17, 2001... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleRed Hat releases MRG 2.0 – messaging for the cloud. (Virtualization Practice)
Red Hat's Cloud is to play at all levels in the stack, from IaaS and PaaS through to hypervisor and of course operating system. Each layer is comparable to offerings from competitors.except for MRG -...
View ArticleAdvanced Disk Parameters: the unofficial diagram (ESX Virtualization)
Advanced Disk Parameters: the unofficial diagram This is a guest post by Andy Grant. When it comes to understanding complex topics, I find it useful to create a diagram of the concept or system in...
View ArticlePeaceful Coexistence: WDS and Linux PXE Servers (VCritical)
PXE is arguably the best way to install VMware ESXi or Linux and it also enables various Linux-based utilities. See how to configure Windows Deployment Services to coexist with a Linux PXE server.
View ArticleManaging Virtual Machine questions with PowerCLI (vSphere PowerCLI Blog)
Greetings to all vSphere administrators out there! This post will illustrate another vSphere feature that is interesting from an automation perspective, namely - virtual machine questions. Virtual...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for Week Ending 6/25/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
Apache Tomcat 7 How can Tomcat redirect to a secure connection when behind a reverse proxy web server? (1037406) Date Published: 6/22/2011 Eclipse Virgo Enabling the YourKit Profiler with Eclipse Virgo...
View ArticleRestarting a virtual machine's interface in VMware Fusion (VMware KBTV)
In this video we will look at restarting a virtual machine's user interface in VMware Fusion. Even if a virtual machine appears to be frozen, it may actually still be running in the background. You can...
View ArticleBrownBags, In Earl Gray – PlanetVM & European BrownBags! (Professional VMware)
So, starting July 7, the BrownBag series will gain a European branch on PlanetVM.net run by Tom Howarth. You can find the announcement here. Those of you with long memories will remember that I used to...
View ArticleNext step forward in Cloud infrastructure (VMGuru.nl)
On July 12th VMware is going to unveil the next major step forward in Cloud infrastructure. VMware executives Paul Maritz (CEO) and Steve Herrod (CTO) will present a 45 minute live webcast. The webcast...
View ArticleThe History of VDI (Virtualization Journey)
One of the many perks of working at VMware is to work with some of the people who have written a (important) piece of computing history. We still have many of the original principal engineers from the...
View ArticlevCenter Orchestrator – VIX Plugin Installation (Professional VMware)
If you are going to be using Orchestrator… and you should be, you are going to want to pull down and install the VIX plugin from here. Why? I hope you are strapped into your seat, and that seat is...
View ArticleErrors during remediation and scratchconfig issues (Gabe's Virtual World)
When trying to update a number of hosts in the ESXi cluster of a customer I first ran into the issue that scanning the host for updates would result in the following error: “Could not scan esx12 for...
View Article2 extreme proof points from the NAS leader (Virtual Geek)
So – today, there were two releases that represent two totally opposite ends of the extreme when it comes to NAS (and suggests, perhaps, the way things will go over time). Interesting to see how it...
View ArticleStartup aims to secure application clouds and virtual desktops (InfoWorld...
Last week while at the GigaOM Structure conference in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, the former CTO of Citrix Systems' data center and cloud division, announced the eyebrow-lifting news of his departure...
View ArticleDell Firmware updates (Yellow Bricks)
I was experiencing some issues with one of my Dell R610 servers. (Fans never spin down.) After doing some research I noticed people suggested it was due to bad firmware of iDRAC Express. So I figured...
View ArticleWho acknowledged that alarm ? (LucD notes)
Sometimes a solution to a problem is just staring you in the face. While writing the PowerCLI book, I spent quite a bit of time on how to find which user acknowledged an alarm. Today Eric “Scoop” Sloof...
View ArticleCitrix Provisioning with VMXNET3 : Blue Screen of Death on Clones...
imageIf you have been streaming Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 vDisks using Citrix Provisioning Services to VMware’s ESX, you’ve probably run into a Blue Screen of Death once or twice. Frequently, this...
View ArticleVMware vSphere Client for iPad v1.1 is now available in Apple App Store...
Srinivas and his team are very excited to announce that v1.1 is now approved by Apple and is available in the App Store right now. Be sure to first get updated vCMA so get the latest version of the...
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