Have a Question? Ask the Expert vBloggers! (VSP1425) (Yellow Bricks)
This year at VMworld I have the honor to part of a panel discussion moderated by Rick Scherer. Of course I am not the only person on the panel. Next to me the panel will feature my fellow bloggers and...
View ArticleExactly how big can I make a single-extent VMFS-5 datastore? (VMware vSphere...
This discussion came up recently with some friends in the communities, and it had quiet an interesting outcome. The discussion was around exactly how large can you make the largest VMFS-5 single-extent...
View ArticleMBR vs. GPT in vSphere 5 (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
With vSphere 5’s new potential for 60 TB file systems, Master Boot Record (MBR) had to go since MBR systems are limited to 2 TB in size. With vSphere 5, the company has moved to a different type of...
View ArticleVideo - What's New in vSphere 5 and vCenter Heartbeat 6.4 (NTPRO.NL)
A recap of VMware vSphere 5 and vCenter Heartbeat 6.4.
View ArticleNews: Citrix acquires RingCube to enhance Virtual Desktop offerings...
Citrix announced the acquisition of RingCube, adding a new wrench to their virtual desktop delivery toolkit. The RingCube vDisk solution uniquely delivers a complete desktop environment without having...
View ArticleA Deeper Look at VASA (blog.scottlowe.org)
No doubt you've heard about VASA, a key new feature in vSphere 5. Here's the information on VASA that you haven't heard, but really need to know.This article was originally posted on...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Licensing – The Role of Cross Platform Management Tools and the...
So you are a loyal VMware customer. You have licenses for vSphere 4 and you are about 40% virtualized. Based upon the revised vRAM entitlements in the revised vSphere 5 licensing, you think you are...
View ArticleVCenter CapacityIQ: Navigating VMware’s capacity planning software (VMware...
VCenter CapacityIQ plugs vSphere’s reporting gaps with vital resource and usage statistics. But the capacity-planning software isn’t customizable, which may be a deal breaker. Add to digg Add to...
View ArticlePartitioned Cluster with HA vSphere 5, who owns what? (Yellow Bricks)
I received a question today about a partitioned clusters (in vSphere 5.0) with HA. The question was which Master would own which VMs when a partition exists and how is determined which master can own...
View ArticlePre-Built Private Cloud: Is it Marketing or Innovation? (solutionsarchitect)
If you have been anywhere near a briefing from VMware, Citrix, or Microsoft in the past few years, you are well aware of what “the cloud” is. You have probably already heard about the public cloud...
View ArticlevCenter Orchestrator – Find The Last Time a Job Ran (Professional VMware)
This is not so much a post of any real substance, more a: “Hey, I just noticed this cool thing here” or so in the vCO interface. Specifically, the last time a specific job/workflow ran: While selecting...
View ArticleCreating and installing a CentOS 5.6 based virtual machine in VMware...
Today’s video is the third installment in our Guest Operating System Installation series which focuses on the creation and installation process for various different operating systems inside of VMware...
View ArticleESXi and Lopsided Bootbanks (ESXi Chronicles)
While working on a white paper that discusses everything you ever wanted to know about upgrading to ESXi 5.0 I ran across this interesting quote in the vSphere 5.0 Upgrade Guide: For most ESXi 4.x...
View ArticleDon’t Miss VMware’s VSPP vmLIVE Training Sessions (VMware vCloud Blog)
By: Matt Sarrel Earlier this month, VMware hosted the first of five VSPP vmLIVE Training sessions – a series on how service providers can best manage virtual and cloud infrastructures. The series will...
View ArticleThe "How To" of CAC Configuration with VMware View for Federal Desktops...
I used to get questions on a weekly basis on how to configure View to use with federal Common Access Cards (CAC) or Personal Identity Verification (PIV) infrastructure for authentication and single...
View ArticlePodcaster? Vlogger? Be a part of VMware Community TV (VMworld Blog)
2898493077_e7bc9e8ca4.jpg Podcasting at VMworld 2008We are doing something new at VMworld this year, something that will put you, our community podcasters, in the limelight. For the week of the...
View ArticlevGhetto VMworld 2011 Charity Bike Ride (virtuallyGhetto)
<img>Continuing the tradition of the VMworld Fun Run started by Duncan Epping back in 2010, VMworld 2011 will include both a fun run and new this year, a bike ride run in Las Vegas. This year,...
View Article24 vCPU VMs with almost native performance on Fujitsu’s servers running...
This Info comes up from Vroom! blog from VMware. It seems that the first tests from VMware partners comes up and shows that having some monster VMs can be beneficial for applications like SAP. In fact,...
View ArticleVideo - Enabling NetFlow on vSphere 5 Distributed Switches (NTPRO.NL)
NetFlow is a general networking tool with multiple uses, including network monitoring and profiling, billing, intrusion detection and prevention, networking forensics, and SOX compliance. NetFlow...
View ArticleVideo - How to setup a vSphere 5 Port Mirror (NTPRO.NL)
Port mirroring is the capability on a network switch to send a copy of network packets seen on a switch port to a network monitoring device connected to another switch port. Port mirroring is also...
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