VMware shops search for savings on vSphere 5 licenses (VMware tips and tricks)
As odious as VMware’s new model may be, there are ways to minimize the financial hit that vSphere 5 licenses will bring to some shops. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
View ArticleHow to Save With New vSphere 5 Licensing Model (DoubleCloud)
Disclaimer: These are my personal thoughts, and strictly mine. I missed the big launch of vSphere 5 on July 12 because I was having my vacation. When I came back, I found so many discussions around the...
View ArticleA Special Birthday Wish & Thank You (vSamurai)
I am constantly amazed how much social interaction goes on in the VMware community. Between the VMware official forums, blogs, VMworld, vForum, vEXPERT program and other events, VMware as a company is...
View ArticleConfigure iSCSI port binding in VMware vSphere 5.0 (Krystaltek)
One of the noted improvements I found in vSphere 5 was the ability to bind iSCSI ports to VMkernel interfaces via the GUI. Previously in vSphere 4.1 the administrator had to achieve this task via the...
View ArticleRunning VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 on the HP Proliant Microserver (TechHead)
Those of you that have bought an HP Proliant Microserver for your work or home VMware vSphere lab are probably wondering whether it will work with VMware vSphere 5.0? Well, the good news is that it...
View ArticleUptimeCloud helps companies track and predict Amazon cloud costs (InfoWorld...
Cloud computing is one of the IT industry's hot sectors right now, and analyst firms are predicting it will heat up further in the next few years. According to one such market analysis study conducted...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Video - Storage DRS (NTPRO.NL)
So what’s the fuzz about this new vSphere 5 Storage DRS feature? This feature delivers the DRS benefits of resource aggregation, automated initial placement, and bottleneck avoidance to storage. You...
View ArticleAppSense set to grow US operation in preparation for IPO (Virtualization...
Five months since Goldman Sachs took a reported 28% stake in UK desktop virtualization specialist AppSense, the signs are that it is starting to expand its US presence by hiring a new Silicon Valley...
View ArticleSome Useful UNIX Commands on your Mac (blog.scottlowe.org)
Here's a collection of some UNIX commands that you might find helpful while gathering networking information about your Mac.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for...
View ArticleHA Architecture Series – Primary nodes? (2/5) (Yellow Bricks)
**disclaimer: Some of the content has been taken from the vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive book** As mentioned in an earlier post vSphere High Availability has been completely overhauled… This...
View ArticleVMware Enterprise or Enterprise Plus? (VMwareInfo.com)
imageYou may have heard about the coming licensing changes from VMware. You may have heard about the new vRAM licensing and some of the impacts it will have on current implementations. And you may...
View ArticleFree Linux & Windows Syslog Alternatives to depercated vi-logger in vMA 5...
Those of you who currently use vi-logger in vMA 4.x as a free syslog server for your ESX(i) hosts may notice this functionality has been removed in the latest vMA 5 release. VMware decided to remove...
View ArticleNew SRM 5 APIs (virtuallyGhetto)
There was a question about in one of my previous articles HBR (Host Based Replication) CLI for SRM 5 on whether there were any new/updates to the SRM 5 APIs. There are no official VMware SRM SDK's...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for Week Ending 7/23/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
VMware ESX Installing ESX 4.1 Update 1 fails at the loading VMNIX state (1034614) Date Published: 7/19/2011 A Linux virtual machine on vSphere 4.1 configured with clock=pit hangs at...
View ArticleHow to install VMware vFabric Enterprise Ready Server on Windows (VMware KBTV)
Today we have another video for you in relation to the VMware vFabric product suite. This video details the installation process for VMware vFabric Enterprise Ready Server (ERS) 4.0.x on a Linux-based...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5: Feature Spotlight - Storage DRS (vSamurai)
Overview Now that I can talk about vSphere 5, after having joined at the end of the BETA period, I am really excited to start blogging about the new features. As much as vSphere 4 was a groundbreaking...
View ArticlePack your bags, you’re going to VMworld 2011 for free…. (vDestination)
Untitled from Greg Stuart on Vimeo. Jason Silva, congratulations! I pulled your name out of the bowl last night, watch the video and start making your plans for VMworld 2011. Thanks to all of my...
View ArticlevSphere License validator Demo video (ESX Virtualization)
This video comes from VMware KB. With the recent licensing policy changes at VMware, the validation process of vRAM entitlements can be verified through a PowerCLI script. The recent policy changes...
View ArticleHow to remote access a Linux GUI from a vCloud environment using a PC or an...
I’ve received this question from one of my readers where he wanted an RDP-like mechanism to access the Linux GUI from a PC or a mobile device (e.g. iPad or iPhone). In his environment he plans to...
View ArticleQuick vCloud Director Document links (virtual-blog.com)
A few people have been asking me the past week or so where VMware keeps its documents in relation to vCloud Director. I thought I would quickly post some of the links, just in case you cant find them...
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