Q&A with Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and Founder of HotLink (VMBlog)
A new company called HotLink has emerged from stealth mode with an announcement that it has secured $10 million in Series A financing. At the same... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleNew Broadcom bnx2x 1.64 driver released for ESX(i) 4.1 but it’s not supported...
VMware has released a new Broadcom bnx2x Nic Driver for ESX(i) 4.1 which is used in HP blades for the HP NC532 Nics....
View ArticleWindows boot IO and storage performance impact on VDI (Virtualization Practice)
With Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) initiatives adoption being a popular theme associated with cloud and dynamic infrastructure environments a related discussion point is the impact on networks,...
View ArticleOn Non-Disruptive Transformation (The Virtual Storage Guy)
Today's post is a short one as my lovely bride is looking to strangle me for writing while we are on vacation... I wanted to share with you the post 'Get on to My Cloud' from Kent Christensen, the...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 8 - Handling the All Paths Down (APD)...
All Paths Down (APD) is an issue which has come up time and time again, and has impacted a number of our customers. Let's start with a brief description about what All Paths Down (APD) actually is...
View ArticleBrownBag Follow-Up – David Davis Edition (Professional VMware)
So, TrainSignal FTW! That is all. About 3 weeks back now we had David Davis on the BrownBags, and while the Video has been up on Vimeo I’ve been lax in getting it posted. One of those things that if I...
View ArticleNew Cisco UCS Bundles! (Jason's Nash's Blog)
Over the last several quarters Cisco has released pre-bundled UCS configurations at very attractive price points. We always look forward to seeing the new offerings at the start of every quarter and...
View ArticleHow Many VMs can you fit in virtualized environment (ESX Virtualization)
A new whitepaper from vKernel showing a metrics-based approach to calculate a number of VMs which can fit in your virtualized environment. This free resource publication from Alex Rosenblat and Ken...
View ArticleOff Topic : Weekend Project : Wine Bottle Tiki torches. (VMwareInfo.com)
imageRan across this very cool backyard DIY Project on the interwebs. The write up is very detailed and really is a very simple project. I’ve had it on my to-do list for a while and the biggest...
View ArticleFirst SAP SD Benchmark on vSphere 5 Shows Performance within 6% of Native...
The first SAP sales and distribution (SD) benchmark on vSphere 5 has been published. It takes advantage of the new larger VM support in vSphere 5 to reach 4,600 SD Users and 25,150 SAPs with a 24-vCPU...
View ArticlevCenter Appliance (Yellow Bricks)
I was playing around in my lab and figured I would give the vCenter Appliance (VCVA) a try. I realize that today there are limitations when it comes to the vCenter Appliance and I wanted to list those...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 (Las Vegas) Gatherings, Tweetups & Parties (VMworld Blog)
<img> If you've signed up for VMworld 2011 Las Vegas, there no doubt you've started planning your schedules around sessions, meetings and networking. NOW, here is an "unofficial" guide to...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 vOdgeball – More than a game (to me) (Jase's Place)
vOdgeball? What the heck is that? At VMworld 2010, the tradition of a the VMworld vOdgeball (dodgeball) Championship began. This was a dodgeball tournament between an EMC vSpecialist Team and a...
View ArticleCitrix acquires Ringcube (virtualization.info)
Citrix today announced the acquisition of RingCube, provider of the OS virtualization platform called vDesk, which recently shifted from management of hosted virtualization to providing so called...
View ArticlevSphere 5 How To Series: vDS Port Mirroring (Jason's Nash's Blog)
In this installment of the vSphere 5 How To series we’ll take a look at the new port mirroring feature in the vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch). Up until now you had to get a little fancy to do traffic...
View ArticleHow vCenter Operations kept my Tier 1 app virtual (solutionsarchitect)
Virtualization admins have become the last line of defense when something is not working right. Networking teams will claim it is the over use of hardware, developers will claim it is the hardware,...
View ArticleHP: The Legos of enterprise IT (solutionsarchitect)
Security breaches from lost laptops, consumerization of enterprise IT, and a slowed economy have all been factors forcing current CIOs and IT staffs to find ways to cut costs and increase efficiencies....
View ArticleBrownbag Webinar on Storage Impact on VDI (solutionsarchitect)
ProfessionalVMware BrownBags – VDI & Storage Impacts from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
View ArticleHow to Add your Twitter Name to your VMworld Registration (solutionsarchitect)
My company has a central point register employees for conferences so the same was true for VMworld. But I noticed that my twitter handle was not included and could not figure out exactly how to add it....
View ArticleNew Guy entering the ranks of vExpert (solutionsarchitect)
I was honored to wake up this morning with an email from John Troyer (@jtroyer) and the VMware Team. Dear Michael Letschin, We’re pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your...
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