The Great Storage Debate (Virtualize Planet)
The last time I was at the London VMUG Julian Wood brought to my attention that people believe NFS storage is the better platform to use nowadays with vSphere. I still cannot get my head around this as...
View ArticleSwap to host cache aka swap to SSD? (Yellow Bricks)
Before we dive in to it, lets spell out the actual name of the feature “Swap to host cache”. Remember that, swap to host cache! I’ve seen multiple people mentioning this feature and saw William posting...
View ArticleExchange Outlook Feature Request: Where’s Waldo? (vinf.net)
There was recently some discussion at a customer about the use of Outlook/Exchange’s calendaring functionality, this is a commonly deployed solution in businesses yet few people seem to “get” how...
View ArticleVIDEO: Interview with @VMDoug About @Veeam Supporting Hyper-V (VMware Videos)
In this 7 minute interview with Doug Hazelman of Veeam (aka @VMDoug on Twitter), Doug talks about how Veeam Backup and Replication will soon include Hyper-V support. With that, they will offer 3 key...
View ArticleHow to Replace vCloud Director Self Signed Certificates (Chris Colotti's Blog)
Question: How many of you have installed vCloud Director and just for the sake of getting it running generated the Self Signed Certificates, but now you want to change them over to real ones? In...
View ArticleUpgrading to VMware ESXi 5 (Virtual IEF)
The following three supported upgrade methods to VMware ESXi 5 are available: Upgrade Method ESX or ESXi to ESXi 5 Upgrade or Patch from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.n vSphere Update Manager yes yes Interactive...
View ArticleThe Next Northern VMUG is the 11th October (PlanetVM)
The Next VMUG is here! Following on from the successful April VMUG, the VMUG Steering group have announced that the next event the Northern’s 5th event (wow doesn’t time fly when you are enjoying...
View ArticleBulk add computers to active directory group using powershell (VMwareAdmins)
Needed to go through the environment and find all the computers per datacenter and add them to their respective security groups so they would get wsus group policy applied to them: So i had to search...
View ArticleHow many vMotions?? - The PowerCLI Way (Technodrone)
As an addition to Luc Deken's and Jonathan Medd's great VIProperty Module, I wanted to add one property that I found useful. Ever wanted to know how many vMotions have been made in your clusters? Using...
View ArticleBriForum : Advanced Netscaler Customizations by Sam Jacobs (VMwareInfo.com)
If you are a regular reader, you know that my colleague Sam Jacobs has spoken at BriForum for the past 2 years. Last year his topic was Advanced Web Interface Customizations and this year he spoke...
View ArticleCitrix Not Focused on Server Virtualization? (VCritical)
Citrix CFO downplays XenServer during Q2 2011 earnings call, shifting focus to Microsoft Hyper-V.
View ArticleStudents, Teachers, Faculty staff – VMware Workstation and Fusion promo. (ESX...
Back to School promo available for VMware Workstation and Fusion. The new promo is for Students, Teachers and Faculty Staff. If you’re one of those, you can get some great discounts on VMware...
View ArticleWhy are containerized modular data centers the new Black now? (virtualization...
What took you so long?I was at Data Center Dynamics in Wasington DC on Tuesday and you may have thought it was Modular Dynamics instead. It seemed as if the data center world finally came around to...
View ArticleTalking VMworld 2011 @ Las Vegas (Blade Watch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vmworldr-2011-brings-your-cloud-to-las-vegas-with-the-leading-virtualization-and-cloud-infrastructure-industry-event-2011-08-15?reflink=MW_news_stmp PALO ALTO, CA, Aug...
View ArticleESXi 4.1 unattended install now possible to SD-CARD/USB (NTPRO.NL)
Ernst Cozijnsen over at Capgemini has found a way to install ESXi 4.1 unattended to SD-CARD / USB. Here are his findings: For a few weeks it was bugging me heavily that the ESXi 4.1 installer didn’t...
View ArticlevSphere 5 Hardware Version 8 & New vCPU Config for Licensing Trickery...
With vSphere 5 comes a new virtual machine hardware version... version 8. The vCPU configuration has changed a bit in the new layout and you can totally see why. When creating a new VM, or editing...
View ArticleCatbird not buying vShield App, vendors say (Server Virtualization Blog)
Catbird Networks and VMware will announce plans next week to deliver VMware vShield controls into Catbird vSecurity. Catbird disclosed the OEM plans this afternoon in response to a report (since...
View ArticleVMware Has Living Proof: Cloud Users Do Exist (Virtualization Review Blogs)
Six VMworld Cloud Infrastructure and Management sessions where the reclusive and elusive cloud user can be found and observed.
View ArticlevSphere 5 Top 10: VMFS-5 at #3 (Virtualization Review Blogs)
If you've been reading this blog long enough, you know by now that I'm a big fan of VMFS. Here's why.
View ArticleTintri VMstore – VM only storage appliance (Gabe's Virtual World)
Last evening I had a WebEx session with Tintri in which they told me about their “VM only” storage appliance VMstore and I must admit that I’m impressed with what they have to offer. I have not yet had...
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