EMC Webcasts in March (VMware Tips)
EMC Webcasts are in full effect! Over 20,000 viewers have registered for these webcasts, why haven’t you!? Every Thursday we cover the hottest topics hitting the virtualization scene, and this month...
View ArticlePowerCLI reference book (Yellow Bricks)
I blogged about this almost two months ago and just on Luc’s blog that the release date has been set and the cover art was released. I wanted to remind all of you the book that is one of a kind, VMware...
View ArticleA change of pace, and a new workplace! (vmDK)
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I will be joining Virtensys as a sales engineer in the South Central region. I’m very excited about this opportunity, and am looking forward to moving from...
View ArticleVMFS And The Distributed Lock Management (DeinosCloud)
On my path to better understand File Systems, here is a blog post regarding VMFS and one of its feature called DLM. Note that I’m not a storage specialist and here below is my understanding of the...
View ArticleAPAC Virtualization Roundtable (Storage: Myths, Mistakes and miracles?) – Wed...
This week Alastair Cooke will be talking storage with Otto Le Roux of Datastor, a New Zealand storage distributor with plenty of virtualisation focus. * SMB Storage * Unified storage value...
View ArticleLab Manager (retired) to vCloud - Update (Technodrone)
I received the answer back from VMware on the conversion ratio that I was waiting for from my previous post. Customers who bought LM before 9/1/2010 (Sep. 1) can exchange 1 CPU of LM for 20VMs of vCD....
View ArticleUse Java Technology to Fight Twitter SPAMs (DoubleCloud)
I got quite a few SPAMs on my twitter last week. While it’s annoying to be spammed, I did pay a little attention to the spammers and noticed that their commonality: big number of tweets, 0 following, 0...
View ArticleVMware Releases VMark 2.1 (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VMware has released VMark version 2.1. VMmark is a free tool that hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors and other organizations use to measure the performance and scalability of...
View ArticleVirtual Machine logging (LucD notes)
I recently received an interesting question in my mailbox. Someone wanted to know if it was possible to enable/disable the logging for a Virtual Machine through PowerCLI. These Virtual Machine logs can...
View ArticleSP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 has some cool VDI enhancements...
Microsoft recently released SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. In this service pack are 2 cool new features directly related to desktop virtualization: Dynamic Memory for Hyper-V RemoteFX...
View ArticleHow to Set Up Proxy With VI Java API? (DoubleCloud)
It’s common for companies to proxy HTTP traffics to external Web site, but not so for internal sites. Therefore, you rarely need to set up proxy for using vSphere API calls with an internal vCenter...
View ArticleVideo: VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VMware's MVP (Mobile Virtualization Platform) enforces security and compliance policies, eases management, and reduces CAPEX while giving employees the freedom to use their mobile device of choice. In...
View ArticleWordPress 3.1 Upgrade Issues (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
I noticed this evening that WordPress 3.1 was available and my blog’s dasboard was coaxing me to upgrade. Every single time I have upgraded, I have made a backup before hand. At the end of a long...
View Article2011 vSphere Reading List – Take 2 (Professional VMware)
One of the questions I get asked most often is some variant of: “I’m new to vSphere, how do I get up to speed?” or “I’ve been using VMware for ages, but I want to take it to the next level,...
View ArticleFranchising Business Model for Cloud Computing (DoubleCloud)
In a previous post, I said that cloud service business model is very much like that of office renting business. Just as big companies want to own their major offices, they want to own their major...
View ArticleVirtualization Management Index – second issue released (ESX Virtualization)
Virtualization Management Index – Part 2 In December vKernel released Virtualization Management Index on which I reported in my article here. You can now downoad the PDF document freshly released...
View ArticleMore new Business cards needed… (J.F.V.I.)
And this time its not because I’ve passed a certification , in fact I recently sat the beta for the new VMware Certified Associate , Desktop exam – covering much of the things a VMware View 4.5 Admin...
View ArticleCelerra and Clariion Login Gotcha with Unisphere (Going Virtual)
In the last couple of months I’ve deployed two Celerra NS120′s and a Celerra VG2 gateway for which I experienced the same problem preventing anyone from being to login to Unisphere post install. The...
View ArticleVMware sends mixed message with View 4.6 (Virtualization Practice)
When VMware first announced that it was going to license Teradici's PCoIP protocol for inclusion in View 4.0, its most visible shortcoming was that VMware did not plan to update the View Security...
View ArticleOps changes part 4 - Injecting or installing drivers (ESXi Chronicles)
Two weeks ago I was presented with a problem regarding the use of drivers that were not part of the standard ESXi ISO. I started looking into it and discovered there are two main solutions for a...
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