Best Practice vs Never Practice (DoubleCloud)
Today I read a commentary of latest MSDN magazine by David Platt who is famous for his book why software sucks. In his commentary titled Never, Never Land, he compared our software development to the...
View ArticleVShield: Breaking down the VMware security suite (VMware tips and tricks)
VShield, the VMware security suite, beefs up protection for ESX and ESXi but also increases complexity. This tip breaks down vShield Manager, vShield Zones and vShield App. Add to digg Add to...
View ArticleVMware Certified Associate 4 - Desktop (NTPRO.NL)
VMware offers world-class Desktop certifications designed to validate and recognize individuals with the technical capabilities and real-world experience needed to increase efficiency, reliability, and...
View ArticleRelease: Quest vRanger 5.0 (virtualization.info)
In October last year Quest released beta 2 of vRanger 5.0, now Quest has released version 5.0 of its backup and recovery product following up version 4.5 which was released...
View ArticleTech: Dynamic Memory for Hyper-V, is it worth it for VDI? (virtualization.info)
Michel Roth, who works for the desktop virtualization division of Quest and runs the Thincomputing.net blog wrote an article titled: “A closer look at the new “Dynamic Memory” feature of...
View ArticleMore details about Microsoft’s client hypervisor for Windows appear...
In July last year, virtualization.info reported that the first details about HyperV 3.0, which appeared online on a French publication. According to that publication, the Hypervisor will not run a...
View ArticleNew book about vSphere Design preorder (ESX Virtualization)
New book will hit the Amazon store soon. New vSphere Design Book from some well known faces in the VMware community. The new book is a joint project of 3 persons: Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe, and Maish...
View ArticleSave [VDI] Storage using VM Swap File Host Placement (myvirtualcloud.net)
When designing VDI solutions for VMware infrastructures, one of the many ways to reduce shared storage consumption is to allow the placement of VM Swap files (.vswp) on host local storage. The .vswp...
View ArticleVDI Flash Calculator v2.0 Released (myvirtualcloud.net)
I have just uploaded a new release of the online VDI Flash Calculator. This release include a cool new feature – the ability to offload VM Swap Files to Local Storage. Many of my solution designs...
View ArticlevCenter Performance Tab – Real-time vs. Historical Data (Virtual Kenneth)
Recently I received a question about the Performance tab within vCenter which intrested me. Looking at the available Chart Options we can see that there are two distinctive performance streams:...
View ArticleVMware Executive Management Team Changes – The Implications (Virtualization...
Todd Nielsen has already succeeded twice at what he is now being asked to do at VMware - once at Microsoft and once at BEA. This time what hangs in the wind is VMware's ultimate destiny. Will VMware be...
View ArticlePesky vCenter ADAM Error (VMwareInfo.com)
Recently on a Windows 2008 R2 vCenter 4.1 build, I ran across a strange error that was flooding my daily health check report. (vCheck5 – Virtu-Al) Active Directory Web Services encountered an error...
View ArticleNew articles published for week ending 2/5/2011 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
VMware Alive Enterprise Validating the database connection for VMware Alive Enterprise (1033929) Date Published: 2/3/2011 VMware Data Recovery Deleting reports from the VMware Data Recovery appliance...
View ArticleGuest Appearance on The Infosmack Podcast (blog.aarondelp.com)
This weekend I was privileged to be a guest along with Brian Gracely on the Infosmack Podcast. The topic was cloud computing. We discussed features of private and public and also the status of the...
View ArticlevCenter out of Space! – A Lesson on Shadow Copy (Professional VMware)
Ran into an issue today where my vCenter would not come back up after a reboot. Standard troubleshooting ensued… the DB is up, it is accessible, odbc is Kosher, etc. At that point, Windows helpfully...
View ArticleVMware undergoes a presidential shake-up (InfoWorld Virtualization Report)
The Middle East is not the only place in the world where presidential changes are news these days. But even if you're a virtualization geek like me, you might have been surprised to hear about a change...
View ArticleVCAP-DCA Prep Video - Configure SNMP for ESX/ESXi (NTPRO.NL)
ESX/ESXi includes an SNMP agent embedded in hostd that can both send traps and receive polling requests. such as GET requests. This agent is referred to as the embedded SNMP agent. By default, the...
View ArticleVMware: Odd issue with NFS datastores (vmDK)
I’ve noticed something odd with a number of clusters that I administer that have NFS datastores. One of the datastores will be duplicated, and end with (1). Typically, only one host has this duplicated...
View ArticleZimbra 7.0 is out (ESX Virtualization)
Zimbra 7 collaborative suite togegher with Zimbra Desktop 7 (beta) was released. Today, just now the new Zimbra Collaborative Server 7 (ZCS) was released. Not so long time ago I reported on a sneak...
View ArticleWe’ve Gone a Little Crazy – Varrow Madness 2011 is Coming! (Jason's Nash's Blog)
I’m late on getting this posted…I was hoping to do it a couple of weeks ago but I wanted to confirm everything before sounding the alarm. On March 17th at the Grandover Resort near Greensboro we are...
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