Attending VMworld – Proven to be a Valuable Experience (Jase's Place)
About a year and a half ago, I was talking with a buddy of mine, Marcus, who was thinking of getting into virtualization. In the many times a year that we work together, we always have conversations...
View ArticleVMware Released vSphere 5 (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VMware released vSphere 5 on July 12, 2011. Some of of the new features: vSphere ESXi convergence - vSphere 5 is converging on the ESXi hypervisor architecture. vSphere Auto Deploy - Auto Deploy is a...
View ArticleNew PCoIP enhancements result in 75% bandwidth improvement (That's My View)
Warren Ponder, Director, Desktop Product Management at VMware published a new article on the VMware End User Computing blog. He writes about the upcoming VMware View & PCoIP release which should...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5 Networking Features (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VMware released vSphere 5 earlier this month. Some of the new improvements surround the networking space. Some of the new features at the networking stack include: LLDP (802.1AB) for dvSwitch NetFlow...
View ArticleVMware View Bootcamp Series -Video #8 Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP...
Join Mark Benson,VMware View architect for a discussion around leveraging security server for PCoIP. View Security Server is a component of VMware View that is typically deployed in a DMZ to support...
View ArticleThe design options grow with vCenter 5 (vReference)
vCenter deployments are likely to change for large companies as they upgrade to vSphere 5. Traditionally vCenter has been installed in one of two designs. The primary decision was whether to split...
View ArticleVMware vSphere "vSphere Desktop" license model (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
One of the new announcements alongside vSphere 5, was a licensing change announcement. This new licensing announcement got a lot of people riled up. In vSphere 4.1, a customer that configured all the...
View ArticlevSphere 5 – How to run ESXi stateless with vSphere Auto Deploy (Gabe's...
A great new feature of vSphere 5 is the possibility to run ESXi stateless. Long, long time ago when ESX 3.0 was hip, we would all install ESX on the local harddisk (or SAN disk). With ESX 3.5, the...
View ArticleJava SE 7 released, finally! (DoubleCloud)
After Java 6.0 released in 2006, it’s been 5 years during which Sun Microsystem was sold to Oracle. Today the 7.0 is finally GAed. It includes quite a few changes including small language changes as...
View ArticleTips for VMworld US 2011 & Las Vegas (The Lone Sysadmin)
As VMworld US 2011 approaches I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve learned about traveling to & in Las Vegas, and things that I wish I’d been told the first time I went to VMworld. You folks...
View ArticleVMFS-5 LUN Sizing (Yellow Bricks)
I had a question on my old VMFS LUN Sizing article I did back in 2009… The question was how valid the used formula and values still were in today’s environment especially considering VMFS-5 is around...
View ArticleSome additional software needed on the Q550 (That's My View)
Even if I’m on vacation at the moment, I had time to play with the new toy. As I wrote a few days ago I’ve installed some software on the tablet including Zimbra and Microsoft Office. So good so far...
View ArticleEnabling Remote Syslog with vCloud Director after installation...
I have seen this asked a few times over the past year, and I also experienced it last week working on a customer deployment. How do you get a remote Syslog configuration to work when you have already...
View ArticleVMware View 5.x with PCoIP Optimization Controls (VMGuru.nl)
VMware in collaboration with Teradici is working hard to improve the rich user experience even more by adding new features and improving existing ones. The vDesktops running on VMware View can be...
View ArticleRegister for 3 days of VMware training before August 31 and get 50% off for...
Nice promo which has been announced by VMware. There has been a new announce from VMware which might save some money on trainings, if planned ahead. With this promo you can benefit 50% off for the...
View ArticleTips and Tricks for vMA 5 (virtuallyGhetto)
vMA 5 is just one of the latest VMware virtual appliances that have received the blessings and conversion to VMware's standard virtual appliance OS, SUSE. There have been several changes in the latest...
View ArticleAnd we are Worried About VMware’s Licensing? (Virtualization Practice)
I was reading through a recent article about the new Java 7 release, which contradicts Oracle's current support statement with respect to licensing. The License from Oracle exclusively states Java 7 is...
View ArticleNew vSphere Health Check 5.0 & ghettoVCB Script (virtuallyGhetto)
The vSphere Health Check script has now been updated to support vSphere 5.0 and includes the following new features:vCenter Server Instance UUIDvCenter hostnameStorage DRS Configuration (Maintenance...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Summary on virtuallyGhetto (virtuallyGhetto)
Here is a collection of all my blog posts relating to vSphere 5 that I have worked on over the last 6 months.General TopicsHow to Enable Support for Nested 64bit & Hyper-V VMs in vSphere 5...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5 and Update Manager Bliss (Virtual Insanity)
Introduction This is a follow-up blog post to a write up I did last year on upgrading your virtual hardware. The post I did was really trying to show people how easy the virtual hardware to...
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