Orchestration Will Rule Them All #BRC2K11 (Technodrone)
On Wednesday night I participated on session 2 of the Blogger Reality Contest. From the rankings that were published on Wednesday - I am actually not doing so well (so your continued and strengthened...
View ArticleHow to Send vCenter Alarm Notification to Growl (virtuallyGhetto)
<img>This tweet from Jason Nash and @PunchingClouds says it all and here it is!I did some research this afternoon and stumbled upon this article Nagios: Notifications via Growl and leveraging the...
View ArticleAutomating the Search for Lopsided Bootbanks in ESXi 4.x (virtuallyGhetto)
I read an interesting article this weekend about lopsided bootbanks in ESXi and as Kyle states, the impact of this is very minor. If you would like to check to see if you would be impacted by this and...
View ArticleCloud Bursting: Is It Ready For Enterprises? (DoubleCloud)
Cloud bursting means workload moves from one cloud to another on the fly. With differentiation of public cloud and private cloud, you can have 4 different permutations: private to public, private to...
View ArticleVDI is like high school sex (Brian Madden Blog)
Everyone's talking about it and it seems like everyone is doing it… well, at least it seems like everyone else is doing it. A lot of people are saying they're doing it. Although to be honest, you have...
View ArticleThe Official vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool is out (ESX Virtualization)
The official release of vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool. At first, when the new licensing of vSphere 5 has been announced, there was Alan Renouf’s PowerCLI script available about checking on about the...
View ArticleIntroducing Xsigo Server Fabric (vDestination)
Xsigo Systems press releases are always exciting, and today’s announcement does not disappoint. Today Xsigo launches Xsigo Server Fabric which promises to do for the infrastructure what VMware did for...
View ArticleA little Competition (PlanetVM)
I’ve received a copy of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference as a review copy, but I have already purchased one. So I have one to give away. At the last London VMUG I was speaking to Jonathon Medd one of...
View ArticleNew VMware vSphere Licensing Advisory Tool (TechHead)
VMware have released a rather nifty new Windows based vSphere licensing advisory tool (v1.0) which helps users of VMware vSphere 4.0, 4.1 and VI 3.5 easily calculate their vRAM usage and capacity....
View ArticleThinking Out Loud: Logical Link Multiplexing (Sort Of) (blog.scottlowe.org)
This post is only sort of about logical link multiplexing; really, it's about new technologies being constrained with old ways of thinking. Is that what's driving us?This article was originally posted...
View ArticlevSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) - Even More Resilience (VMware vSphere Blog)
If you've been following my VSA blogs, you'll have seen how quick & easy the VSA is to install & configure (in under 10 minutes). You'll have also seen how it handles failures of a host or...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for Week Ending 8/13/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
VMware ESX Per virtual machine datastore statistics not available for NFS datastores (2003918) Date Published: 8/10/2011 Windows 2000 R2 virtual machine using a paravirtual SCSI adapter reports the...
View ArticleMitre – Two New Tools to Help with PaaS and Risk Assessment (Virtualization...
On the 7/28 Virtualization Security Podcast, we were joined by Robert Martin of Mitre to discuss Mitre's new CWE, CWSS, and CWRAF tools to aid in software and system security evaluation. We put a...
View ArticleVCP, VCDX losing value, survey says (Server Virtualization Blog)
VMware certifications may still look good on your resume, but the value of some has plummeted. The value of the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) has decreased 12.5% in the past six months, and the...
View ArticleWhat’s that big Grey thing in the corner that needs ironing? (VMware Vision)
AUTHOR: Kenny McBride Has the elephant in the room just suddenly appeared, or has the IT world just procrastinated over the most important facet of virtualization and cloud computing? There appears to...
View ArticlevSphere 5 New Networking Features - NetFlow (VMware Networking Blog)
As part of the Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting features, vSphere 5 provides NetFlow and Port Mirroring capabilities. In this blog entry I will discuss the NetFlow feature that is available in...
View ArticleFirst #cloudtalk Recap: Security and the Public Cloud (VMware vCloud Blog)
Last month, VMware hosted its first #cloudtalk on security and the public cloud, and we had a great turnout. The conversation was lively with 734 #cloudtalk mentions and over 170 chat contributors. We...
View ArticleNext Gen Backup for VMware Chads World Episode 7 (Virtual Geek)
Episode 7 of Chad’s World is now up and posted – a great, fun episode with Drew Kramer from VMware IT. Drew, amigo – you are a good sport :-) A great topic – backup and recovery of VMware, in...
View ArticleHow to: Upgrade to vSphere 5 (VMGuru.nl)
On July 12th, VMware announced the release of vSphere 5. With the release comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation. However, there are a few caveats: vSphere 5 is the first version...
View ArticleVMworld 2011Top 10 Countdownpart 1 (Virtual Geek)
OK – with VMworld 2011 rapidly approaching (10 business days left!) I’m doing a “My Top 10” list of things to do, see, participate in, vote on, win prizes, etc… Each day, I’ll do the next in the “top...
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