Upgrading to vSphere 4.1 Overview (Petri IT Knowledgebase)
What does a typical vSphere upgrade entail? What do you need to know before upgrading your vSphere to version 4.1? In this overview you'll learn about preventing downtimes, performing backups, and...
View ArticleVMware vCloud Powered Services Now Widely Available – VMware Compatibility is...
Today we shared news of the 30+ VMware service providers delivering vCloud Powered services using vSphere and vCloud Director. In light of this, I’d like to share more details on VMware’s strategy to...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Clustering Deepdive available at VMworld (Yellow Bricks)
When self-publishing you face a couple of challenges and one of those is to get your books available in bookstores and at events. Frank managed to get our book available at VMworld and it will be sold...
View ArticlePower Consumption Graphing and Control in vSphere 4.1 (Petri IT Knowledgebase)
The Power Management feature in vSphere 4.1 allows you to choose between five power management policies, helping you reduce energy consumption and increase savings. See how easy it is to configure...
View ArticleRHEV 3.0 beta supports up to 2 TB of RAM per VM (Server Virtualization Blog)
Red Hat is emphasizing KVM’s scale-up capabilities with today’s beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. The updated KVM hypervisor supported with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)...
View ArticleGreat video by VMware’s Michael White on Site Recovery......
Great video by VMware’s Michael White on Site Recovery Manager 5. What a marvel this product is. Incredible list of features and fixes as part of the release. Hat’s off to the SRM Product Development...
View ArticleActual live-and-in-person public and hybrid cloud customers and builders at...
VMworld Las Vegas is just two weeks' away, yet to read the Twittersphere and the Blogoverse, one might think that enterprise public clouds, and hybrid cloud use (where an organization deploys an...
View ArticleThe top iPad applications for VMware admins (VMware tips and tricks)
If you are serious about using an iPad in a virtual data center, these top iPad applications for VMware admins will provide the proper functionality. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us...
View ArticleVIProperties in a Module (LucD notes)
Judging from the number of hits, the VIProperties page seems to be rather popular. The number of entries on that page increases nearly on a daily basis.And judging by the list of people who submitted...
View ArticleVideo - vSphere 5 User Defined Network Resource Pools (NTPRO.NL)
User-defined network resource pools in vSphere 5.0 provide an ability to add new traffic types beyond the standard system traffic types that are used for I/O scheduling. This video shows an example of...
View ArticleNutanix Complete Cluster (Yellow Bricks)
I was just reading up and noticed an article about Nutanix. Nutanix is a “new” company which just came out of stealth mode and offers a datacenter in a box type of solution. With that meaning that they...
View ArticleA week in virtualization (VMTN Blog)
VMworld will be in full swing two weeks from today, and from where I sit, it feels like it is already here. The plans for the Community Lounge are coming together, and I have even seen the floor plan....
View ArticleVMware Social Media Guy Leaks VMworld 2011 Backpack Details (VMware...
In a surprise move, VMware employee John Troyer flipped on his internet web camera and proceeded to lose his mind. Troyer is normally a cool cat who knows how to play by the rules of social media and...
View ArticlevSphere HA 5.0 Best Practices Guide Now Available! (Uptime)
Hot off the presses! After a lot of work by a multitude of people (Keith F., Elisha Z., and Marc S., to name a few), I'm proud to announce the availability of the vSphere HA 5.0 Best Practices Guide....
View ArticleVMworld 2011 Top 10 Countdown number 8 (Virtual Geek)
Get funky, and get active. Oh and get to throw balls at people’s faces. That adds up to v0dgeball 2011. This is all from a group of people who DO NOT TAKE THEMSELVES TOO SERIOUSLY. Here’s what it was...
View ArticleVMware accidentally leaks the feature list of View 5. Drum roll… underwhelmed...
Yesterday VMware accidentally posted the Release Notes for View 5.0, the latest version of their VDI product which they'll be announcing at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas later this month. The leaked...
View ArticleWebex Recording–‘Install & Run the EMC VNX VSA in a vSphere Lab’ (TechHead)
Just a quick post to let you know that the recording of the webex session I took the other day on how to “Install & Run the EMC VNX Virtual Storage Appliance” is now available from the EMC site...
View ArticleTintri follow up (Yellow Bricks)
Back in March I wrote about this new and interesting storage vendor called Tintri which had just released a new NAS appliance called VMstore. I wrote about their level of integration and the fact that...
View ArticleYour VMworld 2011 Enterprise Virtualization Performance and Capacity...
Enterprises considering virtualization performance and capacity management solutions at VMworld 2011 should take a look at VMware vC OPS Enterprise, Netuitive, Quest vFloglight, NetApp Insight Balance,...
View ArticleGuest post: Preliminary Results from the Developer Survey (VMTN Blog)
VMware’s Ecosystem Engineering group has been surveying developers to better understand the tools and interfaces that developers are currently using. (See the August 9th, “Next Generation Development...
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