VMware comes around to supporting multiple vCenters (solutionsarchitect)
VMware released a new fling today Boomerang. Boomerang allows for simple management of multiple ESX or vCenter servers simultaneously. A great resource when you don’t have linked vcenters or are a...
View ArticleVMware is raising the bar (solutionsarchitect)
On July 12, 2011, VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will be presenting on the next generation of cloud infrastructure. The webcast titled “Raising the Bar, Part V” has made many believe this...
View ArticleWhat a ride 2011 has been…Time for the next contest (solutionsarchitect)
Throughout your career things seem to ebb and flow, with hills and valleys along the way. For me 2011 so far has been a fast winding downhill road. Normally people look at the downhill as the bad...
View ArticleThe contest starts tomorrow…VMworld Reality Show (solutionsarchitect)
This is a little longer post than normal with no pictures but bear with me and get to the end – it is important! Tomorrow is the first of the three virtual classes for the VMworld Reality Show. The...
View ArticleHow to take less business cards to a conference…and still make good contacts...
The traditional business card has become part of social etiquette. We make sure when we start a new job we order in 100 cards so that we can pass them out in meetings with clients, vendors, and...
View ArticlevSphere Licensing Advisor tool now available (vSphere-land)
VMware has released the Licensing Advisor tool that I talked about in this post for you to download and run in your environment to see how it complies with the new licensing model in vSphere 5. The...
View ArticleIs Citrix buying RingCube really about departmental app layers instead of...
Yesterday Citrix announced that they were buying RingCube for an undisclosed amount. We reported this as a rumor last week and had a great discussion on the site, so if you want to know more about what...
View ArticlevSphere License Advisor – the official tool – finally available (Yellow Bricks)
I know many of you have been waiting on this so I figured I would report it is available. You can find the official vSphere License Advisor on here. I know many have used Alan’s script, and some...
View ArticleRelease: VMTurbo Appliance update for August 2011 (virtualization.info)
VMTurbo has announced the August 2011 update of its capacity management solution appliance, introducing support for the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. The appliance can either run on vSphere where it is...
View ArticleAnalyst Mark Bowker on VMware and Its Competitors (Virtualization Review Blogs)
The Enterprise Strategy Group Analyst has lots to say about VMware, and it's all good.
View ArticleLatest VMTurbo supports Hyper-V (ESX Virtualization)
The latest VMturbo’s release supports Hyper-V It’s been announced by VMturbo, the Hyper-V support. That means that IT administrators can use single solution as a capacity management and real time...
View ArticleFree Webcast – Install & Run the EMC VNX VSA in a vSphere Lab (TechHead)
I’ll be taking a free web-cast on the EMC VNX Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) today (Thursday 11th August 2011) in which I will demonstrate how to quickly and easily get the EMC VNX VSA up and running...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 HA: Application Monitoring intro (Yellow Bricks)
I don’t think anyone has blogged about App Monitoring yet so I figured I would do a “what’s new / intro” to App Monitoring in vSphere 5.0. Prior to vSphere 5 App Monitoring could only be leveraged by...
View ArticleQEMU 0.15 Released with Full Xen Support (VMBlog)
The QEMU project has announced the release of version 0.15 of its system emulator software. QEMU can be used as a stand-alone desktop virtualization... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleVMware License Advisor–Official tool (Virtu-Al)
Following my recent posts where I showed how PowerCLI could be used to give you an idea of your vRAM licenses in vSphere 5.0 I wanted to let you know that an official tool has now been released from...
View ArticleDoes VDI need User Virtualization, or does User Virtualization need VDI?...
VMware view to release RTO profile solution. Is this lagging behind Citrix who have bought Ringcube? View now has profile management - but that isn't user virtualisation. Does VDI need User...
View ArticlevSphere CBT Freeze Problem With NFS Fixed (VM /ETC)
This is just a quick note that the previous issue with vSphere customers using NFS storage and CBT has been resolved with a recent patch. More on the previuous problem and the new patch in this KB...
View ArticlePrice Commitment for Windows Server Workloads (VCritical)
In a recent blog post filled with FUD and misinformation, the Microsoft virtualization team makes a surprising commitment to maintain Windows pricing.
View ArticleVMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Demo - Installing a VSA cluster...
Good morning KBTV fans. We have a very tasty treat for you today. Thanks to our dear friend Cormac Hogan at the VMware vSphere Blog, we have a brand new vSphere 5 video for your viewing pleasure. I can...
View ArticlevSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) - Installed & Configured in under 10 minutes...
This is a nice short video which I created recently for the VMware KBTV site. It will take you through a complete installation and configuration of the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) in under 10...
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