IE9 and VMware vCloud Director (Musings of Rodos)
A quick note as people are starting to use IE9.Currently vCloud Director (remote console plug-in) does not support IE9, the vCloud Director website should work with the appropriate Flash plugin, but...
View ArticleEMC VNXe Array Series: The Beginning… (Jason's Nash's Blog)
Hey, what’s that in the box right there? Well, the big box on the bottom is an EMC VNXe 3300 array. The boxes on top, unfortunately, weren’t mine. They contained some solid state drives and another...
View ArticleUniqueness of MOIDs (DoubleCloud)
A question was recently posted at the open source VI Java API forum regarding the uniqueness of MOIDs. The developer who raised the question wanted to build a caching on the client side so as to avoid...
View ArticlePulse Check and New Sponsor – Tintri (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
Hello VMware virtualization enthusiasts! The month of August has been intense as VMworld 2011 approaches. I’ve been working on a few projects which need to get out the door before the the big event....
View ArticlevSphere 5 – Installing web client (ESX Virtualization)
The new webclient (server part) installation video. The new web client web interface is using Adobe Flex which is the same as the VMware View and vCloud Director user interfaces. The use of Flash...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Top 10 Countdown: vCloud Director 1.5 at #4 (Virtualization Review...
While this is not necessarily a feature of vSphere 5, it relies heavily on some of the new vSphere 5.
View ArticleThe Skinny on Microsoft's New Cloud Pricing (Virtualization Review Blogs)
Software licensing is way more complicated than it needs to be, and moving to the cloud, especially using your existing apps, offers a whole new wrinkle.
View ArticleNimbula OS Reaches Out to Worldwide Clouds (Virtualization Review Blogs)
The company hopes to become the Microsoft Windows of the cloud with an operating system called Director 1.5.
View ArticleHotlink Turns the Cloud Inside Out by Crossing Interoperability Boundaries...
Company's SuperVISOR technology is enabling vCenter to natively manage Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
View ArticleDid Nutanix just create the ultimate server/storage big data combo hardware...
Hardware startup Nutanix unveiled their first product last night, a server/storage highly-scalable combination that just might be the perfect VDI host. And just like that, Nutanix is my current...
View ArticleWelcome to the Hotel California… (RTFM Education)
Well, I’ve been busy again. Not content with finishing up my book on SRM 5.0 – and also when that is done working on SRM I will be co-authoring a VMware View 5.0 book. Last week I started a 3rd book! I...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 9 - Snapshot Consolidate (VMware vSphere Blog)
I'm sure many of you have seen the new Snapshot > Consolidate option in the drop-down menu of Virtual Machines in vSphere 5.0, and are probably wandering what the use case is. If you haven't seen...
View ArticlePrinting in a VMware View environment explained (That's My View)
Several times I’ve written about the VMware View Virtual Printing on this blog, but mostly about the functionallity, not about the fundamental printing concepts of the solution. This is what I want to...
View ArticleIf Citrix is on a buying spree – should its next purchase be Virtual...
Like a new college student, fresh from the flush of new found freedom to expand their horizons, Citrix appear to have had a case of the munchies. First Citrix's portfolio was extended with the...
View ArticleESXi Quiz (#VSP1956) – The Teams! (#vmworld / #epic) (Yellow Bricks)
I guess most of you have been waiting for this moment… the moment for the three teams to be announced. I can assure you that you will not be disappointed. All of the people on these three have an...
View ArticleGerman ThinApp Community Meeting 13th September 2010 (That's My View)
As I don’t know if all German readers here know my German language That’s my View version I’d like to give you a quick hint for an event. It’s the 1st German ThinApp Community Meeting which will take...
View ArticleIdentifying and Resolving NetXen nx_nic (Qlogic) NIC Failures (Wahl Network)
I’ve had the worst luck with NetXen NICs, specifically the HP branded NC375 quad port 1GbE flavor, as they continuously seem to experience some sort of issue that causes them to drop traffic and reset....
View ArticleSRM for free with PowerCLI & DataONTAP– Part 1: NFS (WoodITWork.com)
I’ve blogged before on how you can use PowerCLI to replicate some of the functionality of VMware’s SRM to easily recover VMs in a business recovery site with replicated storage. In my previous post I...
View ArticleLet The Games Begin - The VMware ESXi Quiz Show (NTPRO.NL)
<img>There is going to be something new and exciting at this year’s VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. If you want to join the game of the century and watch 3 teams battle for virtualization superiority...
View ArticleSite Recovery Manager 5: The BIG Feature List (The VMguy)
As you probably know by now SRM5 is just over the horizon. You have probably heard me mention numerous times how SRM has always been my favorite non-vSphere product from VMware. Some great news is...
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