Workspace-Aware Infrastructure (or VDI) (End to End Virtualization)
At the recently concluded Cisco Live event in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to sit down with a panel comprised of the following folks here at Cisco Live! First off, my thanks to Friea Berg (@friea)...
View ArticleV-index: How do you stack up? (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
Last week, I had the privilege to participate in a Veeam podcast on the topic of the newly released V-index. The V-index, sponsored by Veeam and carried out by Vansom Bourne, aims to capture three very...
View ArticleInstalling vCloud Director 1.5 With SQL Server 2008 (Kendrick Coleman)
The flood gates have opened and the information is all starting to trickle out. First with the vSphere 5 announcement, along side the vCloud Director 1.5 announcement. Many know that one of the big...
View ArticleInstalling vCloud Director 1.5 With SQL Server 2008 (Kendrick Coleman)
The flood gates have opened and the information is all starting to trickle out. First with the vSphere 5 announcement, along side the vCloud Director 1.5 announcement. Many know that one of the big...
View ArticlevFabric webcast: Application Modernization in Practice (VMTN Blog)
Folks, if you get to work with middleware at all, here's a webcast worth joining. It's called Application Modernization in Practice: How NewEdge Revolutionized Their Brokerage Operations with VMware...
View ArticleHome Lab Hosts – Just in time for vSphere 5 (Jase's Place)
I’ve been looking at what type of hardware for a home lab for quite a while. Several people have setup some pretty decent/usable home labs… Here are a few to point out: Kendrick Coleman – vSphere Home...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 Enhanced Security Profile (myvirtualcloud.net)
Bloggers have been doing a great job during the past couple weeks and several vSphere 5.0 articles are being published. There is a lot of information floating around and I would recommend to have a...
View ArticleNeed a ticket to VMworld 2011? (Krystaltek)
My fellow vExpert Greg Stuart in conjunction with Symantec, Veeam and Xsigo is giving away a ticket to VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. The ticket will include a conference pass, air fare (to the value of...
View ArticleStarWind Software Releases their iSCSI SAN Software with Asynchronous HA...
Press Release: StarWind Software Releases their iSCSI SAN Software with Asynchronous HA New StarWind iSCSI SAN Software release, version 5.7, with asynchronous HA, improved performance and Data...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Licensing – Enterprise Viewpoint (It's Just Another Layer)
Every since “Raising The Bar” announcement of vSphere 5 and its associated changes, the blogosphere has been running rampant about Licensing both for and against. Some of the blog postings I see make...
View ArticleVMware vSphere Scripts & Free Tools (VMtoday.com)
Here’s the SlideRocket presentation for tomorrow’s DC VMUG. My first real time playing with VMware’s Slide Rocket. It took me a few crashes of PowerPoint to move to SlideRocket (even after I had...
View ArticlevSphere Fault Tolerance will soon support SMP (vSphere-land)
Came across this session in the VMworld 2011 lineup - (BCO2874 vSphere High Availability 5.0 and SMP Fault Tolerance - Technical Overview), according to the description the Fault Tolerance feature...
View ArticleThree Stages To Master Programmers (DoubleCloud)
While everyone can learn and practice programming, it’s hard to find a good software engineer, even harder to find a great one. My definition of a great software engineer is someone who can solve real...
View ArticleStarwind iSCSI SAN 5.7 released with asynchonous HA (ESX Virtualization)
Version 5.7 of Starwind iSCSI SAN released. Starwind SAN brings new version with new features. The product gets better every release. Now with: - Asynchronous High Availability (HA) - QoS – ability to...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on Upgrading to vSphere 5 (The Lone Sysadmin)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about upgrading to vSphere 5, mainly the questions of when and how I’d like to get it done. During the launch on July 12th there was a lot of talk about how many QA...
View Article3TB SATA Disk Drives with NetApp DS4243 (Krystaltek)
NetApp has now released 3tb SATA disk drives for its DS4243. These 3tb disks require ONTAP 8.0.2 or later. You can read some more info here http://media.netapp.com/documents/ds-3096.pdf I did some...
View ArticleThe Arrival of VMware vSphere 5 (vDestination)
I had the opportunity to break away from work the other day to watch the live webcast of the big, exciting VMware announcement that I had been anxiously waiting for, and it didn’t disappoint. VMware...
View ArticleDIMMs And The Intel Nehalem Memory Architecture Connection (DeinosCloud)
In this post I want to focus only on the intrinsic connection that exists between DIMMs and the Intel Nehalem regarding primarily the memory architecture. I was reading some good papers on this topic...
View ArticleUpdate and re-composure of View Pools (Virtu-Al)
I was recently asked if it was possible to automate the update of a View Pool every week after the updates had been applied to the virtual machines using Windows Update services, the process is quite...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 5 - Storage DRS - Balance On Space Usage...
One of the really great features of Storage DRS (SDRS) is the fact that it will balance Virtual Machines based on both space usage and I/O latency. In this post, I will talk about balancing based on...
View Article