Virtual HD Audio Hardware in vSphere 5 (Kendrick Coleman)
I was in the midst of getting a few play VMs setup for my nested vCloud Director 1.5 environment and I ran into something new. I grabbed 2 linux distros from bagside.com because all of the distros...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Video – The vSphere Web Client (NTPRO.NL)
The vSphere Web Client, the Next-generation browser-based vSphere Client. A browser-based, fully-extensible, platform-independent implementation of the vSphere Client based on Adobe Flex. The vSphere...
View ArticlevCloud Director, Twitter, Yahoo, and Foursquare.com HTTP-REST plug-in use...
Here are a few more use case examples showing how the vCO HTTP-REST plug-in can interact with some popular APIs. vCloud Director You must run two workflows to configure a vCloud Director host. First,...
View ArticleApple to put VDI and Terminal Services to the Lions and hail client...
Lion updates session sharing feature in Lion - does this mean that native mac terminal services can push out mac os to thin clients. Given the license changes, there may well be over 200 features in...
View ArticleMasking LUN paths using PowerCLI (Arnim van Lieshout)
I got a question on my previous post about the Get-EsxCli cmdlet, ESXCLI the PowerCLI way, from Alasdair Carnie who was having trouble using the Get-EsxCli cmdlet to mask luns at the ESXi host level....
View ArticlePoll time: Segregating ESXi management and vMotion (vReality)
A while back I was chatting with a friend of mine at Finnish VMware Users Group IRC channel about best practice on logical level topology of ESXi management and vMotion networks. My friend is used to...
View ArticleVirtualization and remote access help me stay productive (VirtualizationAdmin...
I’ve been on vacation for a couple of weeks. Vacation as in “not at home” where my lab resides. But, some things simply can’t wait and I can’t always predict what I’m going to need while I’m on the...
View ArticleVMworld 2011Records will be broken. (Virtual Geek)
I’m deep (DEEP) in the middle of VMworld 2011 plan execution at this point – with constant goings on. We’re holding a “VMworld 2011 Preview” with Bogomil (VP Product Marketing at VMware) on thursday...
View ArticleVMware View Boot Camp - Automating VMware View with Powershell (VMware End...
Day seven of our FREE 9-part boot camp training series takes a deep dive into automating VMware View with powershell... Network Considerations and Best Practices Join Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise...
View ArticleSurvey Says Hospitals Save 3 Million Dollars Per Year with Single Sign-On...
Guest Blog Post (Part 3 of a 3 part series) By David Ting, CTO, Imprivata The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a survey (full survey available here) to understand, from the view of IT and clinical...
View ArticleVMunderground Ticket Release (knudt blog)
Today is the day folks! At 6pm CDT (that's covers Chicago, Dallas & Kansas City, as well as Omaha, Des Moines and Bloomington, IL) the VMunderground crew will release 225 tickets for our Mother...
View ArticleHA Architecture Series – Restarting VMs (4/5) (Yellow Bricks)
Looking from the outside at the way HA in 5.0 behaves might not seem any different but it is. I will call out some changes with regards to how VM restarts are handled but would like to refer you to our...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5 performance enhancements whitepaper (ESX Virtualization)
Best VMware vSphere 5 performance enhancements. In this whitepaper there are discussed and presented the best performance enhancements which vSphere 5 brings (or will bring, when it will finally hit...
View Articlevi-fastpass esxcli and resxtop bug resolved in vMA 5 (virtuallyGhetto)
Awhile back I wrote about an resxtop bug found in vMA 4.1 in which it no longer functions with vMA's vi-fastpass component and still requires you to provide the username and password even though...
View ArticleAutomating Storage DRS & Datastore Cluster Management in vSphere 5...
<img>Storage DRS is probably one of, if not the coolest feature in vSphere 5. Storage DRS allows you to cluster your datastores into what is known as a datastore cluster (storage pod) and...
View ArticleOracle database virtualization losing its stigma? (Server Virtualization Blog)
A surprisingly high number of database administrators attended last week’s New England VMware User Group meeting in Brunswick, Maine. Maybe they came for the free lobster bake, but more likely, their...
View ArticleRead This If You Have an EMC Celerra or VNX and OSX Lion Clients! (Jason's...
We’re still getting reports of people having this problem so we are trying to get the word out everywhere that we can. If you have an EMC Celerra or VNX and there is any chance a user will connect to...
View ArticleUpdate on VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) (VMware vCloud Blog)
By: Mathew Lodge The VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) was created for partners who offer cloud computing and/or hosted IT services. Through a flexible pay-as-you-go license rental model, VSPP...
View ArticleNew Office Patch to Avoid : KB2501584 (VMwareInfo.com)
Chris Hahn over this quick warning to admins with users running Office 2003 and 2007. This patch comes down via automatic updates, and can generate warning messages when opening office files. See...
View ArticleDiscussion on the impact of the staff model of cloud computing (VMware Vision)
Author: Reid Engstrom The prospect of cloud computing to today’s IT staff poses a real concern to them, not only because of the significant element of change and doing something different outside of...
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