VMworld 2011 – Las Vegas – Thanks! (Yellow Bricks)
What a great week… I’ve seen some great sessions and I met a lot of great people! The sessions I presented were all successful, at least in my opinion (please fill out the survey forms), and I...
View ArticleFrom Vmware Blog: project Octopus (Virtual Aleph)
A new project has been announced @ VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas by Sam Khavari, director, Product Management, End-User Computing @VMware "code name" of the project: Octopus Project Octopus will enable...
View ArticleVMworld Labs wrapup 2011 – Las Vegas (Yellow Bricks)
I bumped in to Mornay today who is on of the people behind the VMworld Labs. I asked him if he could share some numbers with me as I haven’t been involved with the labs this year. It was a very...
View ArticleVMworld 2011, It’s A Wrap! (vDestination)
VMworld this year was incredible to say the least. There is so much to blog about and there will be tons of posts coming out of VMworld this year. This year was my first year as a vExpert and I wanted...
View ArticleNews: vCloud Around the World: VMware Global Cloud (Virtualization Practice)
VMware announced a loosely coupled group of vCloud providers that will use vCloud Connector to loosely couple their clouds, so that VMs can move from vCloud to vCloud without requiring you to...
View ArticlevExpert Spotlight: Shane Williford (VMTN Blog)
Twitter Handle: @coolsport00 Blog URL: No blog per sè http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4444420.html Current Employer: Mazuma Credit Union How did you get into IT? I got into IT because I was intrigued...
View ArticleWindows Refresher; Renaming Multiple files. (VMwareInfo.com)
imageHere’s a quick note Aaron Silber sent over to me reminding me of the super useful F2 key when dealing with Citrix Provisioning Server image files. Hello All, Just in case you weren’t aware of this...
View ArticleCongratulations to Zerto for winning Best of Show at #VMworld 2011...
Zerto has a really compelling way of replicating data from your primary site to your disaster recovery site. They use host-based replication by installing an appliance on each vSphere host. They...
View ArticleRelease: VMware Converter 5.0 (The VMguy)
I know that not many of the Enterprises still have a need for converting their physical machines in-place to virtuals, but the SMB customers still do. Converter 5.0 was released yesterday (sorry, I...
View ArticleRelease: VMware vCloud Director 1.5 (The VMguy)
This one’s for the Lab Manager Customers! The ones who have been waiting for SQL support and linked clones! vCloud Director 1.5 has been released and can be downloaded here. Let’s get right to the...
View ArticleCisco and VMware Submitted VXLAN for Open standard (Malaysia VMware Communities)
Interesting announcement from Cisco and VMware during the VMworld 2011 which was regarding the VXLAN capability. Both company had invited a group of product principle together to submit the VXLAN to...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 Keynote (Musings of Rodos)
Some of the best bits from VMworld are the keynotes. The first was by Paul Maritz, the CEO. Here are my notes from the presentation. You can view the video of it on the Internet. Paul is not the most...
View ArticleOut of Office (RomantT.net)
I love to travel. Am fortunate enough that in my role am able to do two awesome things: talk about technology and see new places. Yet exploration goes beyond taxis, hotel rooms and new office blocks;...
View ArticleHow To: Upgrade VMware vCloud End to End (Chris Colotti's Blog)
Now that vCloud Director 1.5 has been released I wanted to let folks know about the upgrade process that I happened to try out in my lab for the entire stack. This is meant to be only a high level...
View ArticleLAS4001: VMworld Labs Automation & Workflow Architecture (It's Just Another...
Disclaimer: I scribbled notes as fast as I could during the presentation and may have mistyped/miswrote some information. If you have solid information to make this more accurate please let me know....
View ArticleMinwag with Mike Ellis (RTFM Education)
I first met Mike at the Indy VMUG – we chat about the regional event I attend (and the massage you could get) and we also talk about his recent deployment of FlexPod…
View ArticleMiniwag with Eric Siebert (RTFM Education)
Me & Eric had double-blind face-off over the rights and wrongs of virtualizing vCenter… ;
View ArticleMiniwag with David Davis (RTFM Education)
In this miniwag I chat with David Davis about his new vSphere5 video series, and TrainSignal’s plans for videos on other VMware Technologies.
View ArticleMiniwag with Edward Haletky (RTFM Education)
In this miniwag with Edward Haletky we discuss his experience at the VMware Labs, and we also chat about Edward’s session on security.
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