Are You Registered to Raise the Bar on 7/12?? (blog.aarondelp.com)
Quick post this evening. In case you live under a rock with that guy on the Geico commercial, VMware will be hosting an event on July 12th that you don't want to miss. Details are located at this...
View ArticleRepeat! vExpert for 2011! (Jason's Nash's Blog)
Yeah…I’m like the last guy to post about the vExpert announcements but I have a good reason. I’ve been on PTO the last couple of weeks and while one of my goals was to get some content on the...
View ArticleRegister for VMware’s special event on 7/12 or else… (vSphere-land)
… Mr. T will come whoop your butt. Seriously though, if you’re involved in virtualization in any way, VMware’s special event on 7/12 is one you really can’t afford to miss. VMware is being vague on...
View ArticleWho's got the golden ticket? Win a free VMworld pass at our July 12 online...
Not signed up yet for our July 12 online Cloud Infrastructure event? You should take care of that right now before you forget, because if you register and attend the event this Tuesday, you will be...
View ArticleBasic Zimbra Cloud (vSamurai)
Overview I was having some issues around my Zimbra implementation just before lunch and I got to thinking... why not do a Zimbra post. Most of my peers in the virtualization and cloud industry at this...
View ArticleJoin VMware for the next major step forward in Cloud Infrastructure...
VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CEO Steve Herrod are hosting an event next week to unveil the next major step forward in cloud infrastructure. The event will be live online and you can register here Not...
View ArticleRES Software released RES Workspace Manager Integration Toolkit for Citrix...
RES Workspace Manager delivers a personalized, secure and reliable user workspace to any desktop using any application delivery infrastructure, including Citrix XenApp Published Applications. The RES...
View ArticleCreating VLANs in DD-WRT (Part 3) (vspecialist)
In the second part of this post I completed the setup of VLANs on my WNR3500L router. To make them available to hosts (and VMs) I now have to configure my Cisco SLM2008 switches. Fortunately that turns...
View ArticlevExpert 2011, count me in! (WoodITWork.com)
Today, I heard entirely unexpectedly from John Troyer that I’ve been granted a vExpert award 2011! I’ve spent a week congratulating many deserving vExpert award winners and as all notifications went...
View ArticleVirtualization Performance Management and Misleading Averages (Virtualization...
What is still missing here is any kind of an end-to-end view of infrastructure latency that is also real time, deterministic and comprehensive. The marrying of the SAN point of view with the IP network...
View ArticleGot VDI? Check Out The Free Online VMware View Bootcamp On July 19! (Blue...
For many IT shops, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is their first step in their private cloud journey. Automation, on-demand provisioning, access by mobile devices -- VDI has it all while...
View ArticleGo ahead and explore this Interactive PDF licenisng document (ESX...
Mind-MAP pdf for VMware Licensing. Few weeks I published a news article about some VDR troubleshooting tool, which is basically a PDF document with clickable areas in it. Today, I just discovered...
View ArticlevChat – Episode 18 – Simon Uses Twitter at Mt Everest and Iomega PX4 (VMware...
In vChat #18, Simon, Eric, and David discuss Simon using Twitter at Mt Everest basecamp, the new Iomega PX4, HP Discover, HP TouchPad, Uber EMC VNX VSA, the Denver VMUG, the VMware Cloud Infrastructure...
View ArticleTop five lessons learned from a virtualization veteran (vSphere-land)
I’ve been involved with virtualization for almost six years now, and I’m still learning new things about the technology — and the community around it — every day. The major benefits of virtualization...
View ArticleCapacityIQ: Installing VMware’s capacity planning tool (vSphere-land)
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ is a capacity planning tool that adds much-needed reporting features to vCenter Server. While the installation process is pretty straightforward, some subtle configuration...
View ArticleInstalling and configuring VMware ESXi (vSphere-land)
VMware announced that ESXi will be the exclusive hypervisor of vSphere 5. As such, we will likely see a greater adoption of VMware’s smaller hypervisor. ESXi can be either embedded on a server (boot...
View ArticlePatching VMware ESXi Installable (vSphere-land)
ESXi 4.1 brought changes to the patching process. Previously, the Host Update utility — an application included with the vSphere Client — could patch ESXi 4.0 hosts. VMware removed Host Update from...
View ArticleVMware’s vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI): How they work and which...
In a virtual server environment, the interaction between hypervisor and the storage hardware that supports it is complicated. In an effort to simplify that interaction and make it more efficient,...
View ArticleDownload the free Remote Desktop Services Component Architecture poster...
Are you considering a significant Microsoft Remote Desktop Services deployment based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V anytime soon? If so, Remote Desktop Services Component Architecture poster is...
View ArticleJoin me for VMware’s July 12 “Raising the Bar” Event (The Lone Sysadmin)
If you haven’t signed up for VMware’s webcast on Tuesday, July 12 you should. They’ll be announcing how Cloud Infrastructure is going to take a “major leap forward.” I’ll be on the ground out in San...
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