VMware vSphere 5 licensing explained (Virtual IEF)
With the announcement of VMware vSphere 5 a complete new license model is introduces. In VMware vSphere 4 the licensing model was per physical processor based on the number of cores per CPU and the...
View ArticleVMware View Android Client is here! (That's My View)
Check out this blog post on the VMware End User Computing Blog and you’ll learn more about the new VMware View Android client! The Android Client will be available from the App Market today. Here just...
View ArticleStorage DRS interoperability (Yellow Bricks)
I was asked about this a couple of times over the last few days so I figured it might be an interesting topic. This is described in our book as well in the Datastore Cluster chapter but I decided to...
View ArticleAmazon indexing problems (Frank Denneman)
The entire week Amazon hasn’t been able to index both vSphere 5 Clustering technical deepdive editions properly. We are working with Createspace to fix these problems. In the meantime, both full color...
View ArticleThere's a new mob in town, FDM MOB for ESXi 5 (virtuallyGhetto)
That's right, vSphere is not the only one with a MOB, the new FDM (Fault Domain Manager) feature also includes a MOB view on an ESXi 5.0 hosts that is part of an FDM/HA enabled cluster. I originally...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0: UNMAP (vaai feature) (Yellow Bricks)
With vSphere 5.0 a brand new primitive has been introduced which is called Dead Space Reclamation as part of the overall thin provisioning primitive. Dead Space Reclamation is also sometimes referred...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 4 - Storage DRS - Initial Placement (VMware...
Storage DRS (SDRS) is another new feature of vSphere 5.0, and is possibly one of the most exciting. It allows for intelligent initial placement and on-going space & load balancing of Virtual...
View ArticlevSphere 5 – New vSphere Web Client (Virtualised Reality)
With the announcement of vSphere 5 this week brings many new features, I attend to be picking of features one by one and looking at them with a bit more depth. With vSphere 5 is a completely new...
View ArticlevChat – Episode 19 – LIVE from the VMware vSphere 5 Launch in San Francisco...
In vChat Episode 19 David Davis and Eric Siebert talk LIVE from the VMware vSphere 5 Launch in San Francisco about what’s new in the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite launch and what it was like to...
View ArticleFile a Technical Support Request Demo (VMware KBTV)
We're trying something a little bit different, changing the way you can find articles from our Knowledge Base before you file a support request. We've been tagging our articles following a fairly...
View ArticleSummary of Cisco Live 2011 Blog Posts (blog.scottlowe.org)
For easy reference, here is a short (and most certainly incomplete) list of some Cisco Live 2011-related blog posts.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more...
View ArticleConfused Explaination from VMware about New License Scheme on vSphere 5...
After the surprise revise new License Scheme in vSphere 5, VMware had started to worry the decision of the so call FLEXIBLE offering to their client, which had received large numbers of users’ negative...
View ArticleNick Howell on "NetApp & Storage DRS" with vSphere 5 (Virtual Aleph)
On NetApp blog, Nick Howell tells us about Storage DRS feature - new in vSphere 5 - with all the pros and cons, deep diving on deduplication:[...]Let's talk about Deduplication first. As we've all...
View ArticlevSphere 5 new Networking features (myvirtualcloud.net)
Since the release of vSphere 5 few days ago several articles have been published, however most of them of focusing on the new “core” features and improvements. Well, that may not be true. I have...
View ArticlevDestination Birthday Winner is… (vDestination)
Congrats Michael Armstrong, your name was randomly pulled out of a hat last night, you are the lucky winner. Thanks to Train Signal for donating these great videos, they’re one of a kind. Michael, make...
View ArticleNew Cloudcast (.net) - Isaac Roth with Red Hat's OpenShift (blog.aarondelp.com)
Just posted a very cool new Cloudcast today. This week we spent time learning about Red Hat's new PaaS offering, OpenShift. The interview turned out great and Brian and I learned a lot. Details and...
View ArticleMy Diagram Secrets Exposed! (HyperViZor)
Yes, I’m still alive! It’s been like what, six months now without blogging?! Now that’s something not cool and I really need to do something about it. The thing is, I’ve been involved in a lot of cool...
View ArticleCisco Live 2011 – Day 4 (Jason's Nash's Blog)
The end of Cisco Live is upon us! Thursday, day 4, was the final day. BRKDCT-3060 – Deployment challenges with Interconnecting Data Centers Yes, yes….another session on how we interconnect...
View ArticlevSphere 5 vCenter Server Virtual Appliance Quick-Start Guide (VMwire)
The vCenter Server Linux Virtual Appliance (vCSA) is a preconfigured Linux-based virtual machine that is optimized for running vCenter Server and associated services. This article provides a...
View ArticleDavid Davis on ComputerWorld: opinion on new vSphere 5 pricing model (Virtual...
Hello all,on ComputerWorld.com a three pages article on new vSphere 5 pricing model written by David Davis with deep dive into vRAM Pooled Pricing[...] The per-virtual-machine (VM) pricing model has...
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