SMB focus: VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VMware recently released a product the company is calling the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA). VSA is targeted squarely at the SMB market in which customers may not have the means to purchase expensive...
View ArticleVMware Fusion and Workstation Coupons (ESX Virtualization)
30% Off: New promo for VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation This new promo code works for VMware Fusion 3.1 and for VMware Workstation 7.1. In addition, if you buy VMware Fusion with an subscribtion...
View ArticleQ550 + USB PR07 Port Replicator = Cool mobile device & great Thin Client...
Weekend, vacation and it’s raining. A good time to play with the geek toys. Yesterday the USB port replicator arrived and I was really surprised. I only knew port replicators where I can connect my...
View ArticleHow to Enable Nested vFT (virtual Fault Tolerance) in vSphere 5...
The ability to enable virtual Fault Tolerance in nested virtual machines running in vESX(i) is not a new feature in vSphere 5, vFT has been an unsupported feature since vSphere 4 and was initially...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes Recommendations (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new feature for Hyper-V called Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV). Cluster Shared Volumes simplifies the configuration and management of clustered virtual machines. With...
View ArticleBlogger Reality Show - Starts on Tuesday (Technodrone)
Last week I blogged about how I was going to get to VMworld, and all of this is due to the fact that I am participating in a Blogger Reality Contest. Our first session will be this Tuesday Session 1:...
View ArticleVMware View 4.6 Windows 7 Quick Prep fail where it work for Windows XP...
One of the most asked questions lately by partners and customers when it come to VMware View 4.6 Implementation (I believe its applicable for older versions of View as well) is that when creating a...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5 Interactive PXE Installation Improvements (VCritical)
VMware ESXi 5 media can be used for interactive PXE installs without creating the image.tgz file that ESXi 4.1 required. A "prefix" directive for boot.cfg also makes it easier to organize various...
View ArticleGuess It’s Official – VCAP-DCD Goodies! (Jason's Nash's Blog)
A while back I passed my VCAP-DCD exam and I was curious to see what number I was as I had seen many others take the exam as well. Well, yesterday I got my welcome kit from VMware: If you haven’t seen...
View ArticleVMware security cheat sheet for PCI DSS 2.0 compliance (VMware tips and tricks)
New PCI DSS 2.0 guidelines finally address virtualization security. They aren’t mandatory, but the recommendations provide a solid framework for VMware security. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to...
View ArticleFiltering vSphere API Requests (DoubleCloud)
I got an interesting question on how to find out WSDL files are used by vSphere Web Services at the VI Java API forum. After some clarification, it turns out the questioner just wanted to know what...
View ArticleThinapp troubleshooter – an interactive PDF mindmap (ESX Virtualization)
It’s a free download interractive PDF document. Another one to the collections of mindmap interactive PDFs saw a daylight at VMware. This time you’ll be able to download and explore the interactive...
View ArticleIndy VMUG (RTFM Education)
Last week I spent a couple of days in Nashua, NH with Dell – and then later on I pootled over to Indy to present at the VMUG there, and take part in a panel along side Scott Lowe (EMC), David Davis...
View ArticleVMware vCenter Converter to be Retired (Technodrone)
Who uses vCenter Converter? Well I do. So I have some bad news for you. It looks like the built-in converter plugin which was part of vCenter 4.x will be no more. vCenter 4.1 Install This is screen...
View ArticleVMworld Session: vSphere Clustering Q&A (Yellow Bricks)
We need your help for our VMworld session “VSP1682 – vSphere Clustering Q&A”. In order to ensure we can fill up the full 60 minutes we want to have a couple of questions ready in case no one in the...
View ArticlePerformance Management for Desktop Virtualization (VDI) and Presentation...
Ovum’s research found that desktop virtualization currently represents approximately 15% of the business PC market. However, this figure is dominated by the Presentation Virtualization model (12%),...
View ArticleVMware View : Transfer Status LOCKED. (VMwareInfo.com)
Installing the new View 4.6 Transfer server (for Local Mode Offline Desktops) and I noticed that the Transfer Server was UNMOVABLE. Right click the VM and you will notice that the Migrate feature is...
View ArticleAltaro readies Hyper-V backup tool for small businesses (InfoWorld...
It's nothing new to say that virtualization is booming due to the flexibility, efficiency, and savings it provides. It remains a growing market even with a down economy, and the more it grows, the more...
View ArticleVirtualisation 101 – Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migrations (PlanetVM)
Following on from last month’s article on deploying brand new virtual machines Simon this month moves on to looking at how to migrate existing Physical or Virtual machines running on earlier or...
View ArticleHow VMware can fix the vSphere 5 licensing mess (Server Virtualization Blog)
VMware really could have approached vSphere 5 licensing differently to make it less painful for existing customers. It’s understood and accepted that VMware licensing had to change, but the company...
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