To partner or not to partner, that’s the question (VMGuru.nl)
In my new job I meet many, many vendors and almost all of them have a partner program in which we can achieve bronze, silver, gold, enterprise, premier, business or any other partner status. In reality...
View ArticleQ&A with Michael Friis, Co-Founder of .NET PaaS Provider AppHarbor (VMBlog)
This week, AppHarbor announced an add-on API that will provide a self-service portal for third-party service providers. This new release lets... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleShould VMware Administrators Care About Applications Performance...
Applications Performance Profiling is an essential step in the process of virtualizing business critical and performance critical applications. In this case "performance" means response time not...
View ArticleFree Whitepaper: The Top 5 VM Performance Problems. (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VKernel has released another great whitepaper. This time, they are addressing the top 5 VM performance problems. "When it comes to performance, the virtual infrastructure is more complex to understand...
View ArticleVIDEO: Ask the Expert with Scott Lowe, Rich Brambley, Jason Nash, Mike...
The “Ask the Expert” session at the Carolina VMUG was awesome this year (2011). Experts on the panel were: Scott Lowe, VCDX (@Scott_Lowe) of blog.ScottLowe.org Jason Nash, VCDX (@nash_j) of...
View ArticleIs Microsoft Building a Client Hypervisor? (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
There has been speculation that Microsoft will be including a version of Hyper-V called Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows 8. Robert McLaws grabbed some information from a Windows 8 build that shows the setup...
View ArticleTech Field Day – June, Boston (RTFM Education)
Well, the dust has settled – or rather I’ve been so max’d out that I haven’t had time to write up my experiences. And I really should before it gets all fuzzy, like afternoon beer… This TFD was in...
View ArticlevCenter Orchestrator – Active Directory Like A Boss (Professional VMware)
This week has me finishing up Chapter 10 or so of the upcoming vCO Book (Amazon pre-order link here). Chapter 10 is the “How to cleanse a VM with fire” or so, and one of the varied bits of clean-up you...
View ArticleStarwind Virtual SAN Appliance (ESX Virtualization)
StarWind Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) has been announced by Starwind Software. New product announcement from Starwind software. Starwind SAN is known to be usually installed on Windows systems. I...
View ArticleCharlotte, NC – Ask the Experts Video – Cloud (RTFM Education)
David Davis of www.vmwarevideos.com has released his video of the “Ask The Experts Panel” on the topic of cloud. On the panel were myself and Scott Lowe, VCDX (@Scott_Lowe) of blog.ScottLowe.org Jason...
View ArticleDeleting a virtual machine in VMware Fusion (VMware KBTV)
In this video we will look at deleting a virtual machine in VMware Fusion. You might want to do this if your virtual machine is failing and needs to be recreated, or if the Operating System needs to be...
View ArticlevCenter Orchestrator new plug-ins covered in "This week in virtualization"...
altBrian Knudtson (@bknudtson) talks about new VMware vCenter Orchestrator plug-ins and the vCenter Converter 5.0 beta.Listen to the podcast here.
View ArticleQ&A with Artem Berman, CEO of StarWind Software Talking iSCSI SAN and HA...
Many of us are familiar with StarWind Software for the work they've been doing with delivering a free iSCSI SAN solution and their software for... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleVMware Zimbra Allows MxToolbox to Offer Robust, Flexible Messaging Management...
“We chose VMware Zimbra as our messaging solution platform because it delivers the functionality and performance our customers need, and the scalability and administrative ease-of-use that we need.” —...
View ArticleImproving Your Career With Social Media (or, How To Learn To Stop Worrying...
Recently, a friend of mine found out he was in need of a new job, and asked me if I had any leads. I didn’t, at least not for his area and desired position. I did have one suggestion, which was to get...
View ArticlePowerPath/VE : Free trial (Nickapedia)
If you are lucky enough to have an EMC backed virtual environment to work with; did you know that you can test drive PowerPath Virtual Edition (VE) for free? Go over to:...
View ArticleIntroducing VMware Zimbra for Android – A New Fling from VMware Labs! (VMware...
By Srinivas Krishnamurti, Senior Director, Mobile Solutions, VMware We are excited to announce the availability of VMware Zimbra for Android (VZA) as a fling. A fling is a short-term thing, not a...
View ArticleCloudCleaner: Features and Benefits of VMware Labs Latest Fling (VMware...
By: Matt Sarrel If you’re like me then you are constantly changing configurations and redeploying virtual machine images. There can be a problem with this because host machines on the vCenter Server...
View ArticleAsk the experts, care of David Davis @ the Charlotte VMUG a few......
Ask the experts, care of David Davis @ the Charlotte VMUG a few months ago. Of note our own Jason Nash swinging with the Big Dogs, i.e. Mike Laverick, Scott Lowe, Rich Brambley, and Mike Dipetrillo....
View ArticleHow to speed-up the execution of the first PowerCLI cmdlet (vSphere PowerCLI...
Some users may experience delays on the first run of a PowerCLI cmdlet for each new PowerShell session. This delay is more noticeable when running on a 64-bit OS. You can see this with a simple script...
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