VM/Cloud Mobility Town Hall at Catalyst (Chris Wolf)
Kyle Hilgendorf and I will be hosting a Twitter Town Hall at next week’s Gartner Catalyst Conference. Attendees at the conference will be able to participate in the open Q&A and white boarding...
View ArticleEnsuring a Secure and Compliant Virtualized or Cloud Computing Environment...
Join us tomorrow for this webinar on VMware security solutions for Virtualization and Cloud. Rob Randell and I will kick it with folks & chat about how some of our customers are attacking Security...
View ArticleSetting Microsoft Straight on the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP)...
During the recent Microsoft Partner Conference, slides were presented at a session to service providers comparing the costs of hosting with vSphere versus Hyper-V. These slides eventually made their...
View ArticleVirtual Bridges Slashes VDI Storage Costs with Latest VDI Gen2 Solution...
Press Release: Virtual Bridges Slashes VDI Storage Costs with Latest VDI Gen2 Solution VERDE Adds New Features Including Cache I/O Storage Saver and Integrated Endpoint Management AUSTIN, Texas (July...
View ArticleMake-A-File – File Creation Utility (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
Part of being successful it your role is having the right tool for the job. If you work a lot with storage, storage performance, tiering, snapshots, or replication (ie. some of the new storage related...
View ArticleSuccess Story: Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DoubleCloud)
Today I got an email from Louis Jia who is a Sr. Development manager at Cisco. He told me that the product his team has been working on had been rebranded as Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)...
View ArticleMy Vacation in China (DoubleCloud)
I recently spent two weeks on vacation in China. I’d heard dramatic changes there since my last trip several years ago. My trip definitely confirmed these. The following are several photos I took while...
View ArticleVMware MVP, Awesome! (vDestination)
How many phones do you prefer to carry? 1? 2? Maybe 3? I personally prefer to carry only one phone at a time, but there have been situations where I’m forced to carry 2 phones, my personal phone and a...
View ArticleIntroducing Virtual NUMA in vSphere 5 (Krystaltek)
There has been a lot of talk already about new features announced in vSphere 5 since the cloud launch last week. After being involved in the beta and doing some of my own discovery/testing in my home...
View ArticleDatastore unable to enter SDRS Maintenance mode (Krystaltek)
I spent some time in the last night playing around with some of the new storage features of vSphere 5. What I saw really impressed me although I came across an issue which annoyed me at first, but with...
View ArticleHow to license Microsoft Windows 7 for VMware View deployments (VMGuru.nl)
I often get questions about how to license Microsoft Windows 7 in a VMware View VDI deployment, I will try to elaborate what is needed in general and for specific scenarios. By understanding how they...
View ArticleESXi 5: Suppressing the local/remote shell warning (Yellow Bricks)
On twitter today Duco asked a question if it was possible to suppress the local/remote shell warning. I knew it was possible so I dug it up. This is the warning Duco is referring to for those who are...
View ArticleAll Things Virtual 25 (The Saffa Geek)
After a much needed two week holiday I’ve come back to an overwhelming amount of news from the virtualisation arena and in particular the announcement of VMware vSphere 5. Having been on the beta for...
View ArticleVMware View Administration Training – My Review (ESX Virtualization)
VMware View Training by Trainsignal. I have already announced that the VMware View training was released in my recent post, but now after I watched the whole course, I can finally report what is my...
View ArticleHA slotsize caveat… (Yellow Bricks)
I had a question this week from one of my colleagues which had me dazzled for a while. A customer had an HA enabled cluster and used “Host Failures Cluster Tolerates” as the admission control policy....
View ArticlevSphere Networking Design Presentation (blog.scottlowe.org)
This is the presentation that I gave at the full-day Denver VMUG at the end of June on vSphere network design considerations. I hope you enjoy it!This article was originally posted on...
View ArticleVMware – A Train with an Engine, 3 Boxcars, and a Caboose (Virtualization...
VMware is already the most important, and with vSphere the best systems software vendor on the planet. This is true not only based upon the current success of the vSphere platform, but the quality of...
View ArticleVMware Scale Up vs. Scale Out: The Big Picture (The Lone Sysadmin)
Duncan Epping and I were kicking around the whole scale up vs. scale out argument two nights ago on Twitter, which culminated in Duncan’s excellent post on the topic. Aaron Delp also posted some...
View ArticleScale Up/Out and impact of vRAM?!? (part 2) (Yellow Bricks)
** Disclaimer: I am a VMware employee ** ** I am not affiliated with Dell, just picked them as their website is straight forward ** About a year ago I wrote an article about scaling up. I have been...
View ArticleThanks Again to VMware for the vExpert 2011 Award (VMBlog)
I've done this privately already, and then again in public with a quick Tweet, but I couldn't believe that with all of the initial excitement around... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
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