Storage vMotion, Storage DRS & Virtual Machine Snapshots Interoperability...
Some time back I wrote a blog post on enhancements to Storage vMotion in vSphere 5.0. One of these enhancements included the ability to Storage vMotion a Virtual Machine which had snapshots. Previously...
View ArticleVMworld Europe – Session time announced (virtual-blog.com)
Now VMworld US has finished, it is time to concentrate on VMworld Europe. Chris Colotti (@ccolotti) and I presented #CIM1264 Private vCloud Architecture Technical Deep Dive three times in Las Vegas,...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 8 – What’s new? (vNinja.net)
VMware is close (still in beta) to releasing the new major release of VMware Workstation. VMware Workstation 8 brings a lot of new features and enhancements to the table, and I’ve been lucky enough to...
View ArticleScripted Installations of vCenter5 (RTFM Education)
Those who have been following the exploits of my fictional character – Luke Maverick will no that he’s been experimenting with scripted installs of vSphere5. Maverick’s work was done using the Release...
View ArticlevExpert Spotlight: Calvin Zito (VMTN Blog)
Blog URL: www.hp.com/storage/blog Twitter handle: @HPStorageGuy Current employer: HP How did you get into IT in the first place? I attended a technical university out of high school as I had an early...
View ArticleHow to re-install TweetDeck on Mac (virtual-blog.com)
I never realised how much I rely on Tweetdeck until today when all my columns became corrupted and I could no longer receive tweets through it. I tried the usual delete the app etc, but this did not...
View ArticleWhy we chose Nutanix, Teradici, and Virtual Computer for the "Best of VMworld...
Obviously you all know that VMworld 2011 took place last week in Las Vegas. TechTarget was the official media sponsor, which means that we're responsible for the "Best of VMworld" awards . (It also...
View ArticleVMware MVP: A good idea, but… (Server Virtualization Blog)
VMware highlighted its Mobile Virtualization Platform at VMworld 2011, but I left the show feeling like the technology is little more than a novelty. The concept itself is a good one, but the lack of...
View ArticleTeradici is a winner! (That's My View)
A few weeks ago Teradici announced the details for the APEX 2800 PCoIP Server Offload Card. With that add-on card you can increase VDI consolidation ratios by reducing the hosts CPU utilization by up...
View ArticleVMworld Labs - Addendum (Technodrone)
As always the VMworld labs are always a hit. Everyone wants to try out the new technology, see the new stuff, and get a hands on feeling with the latest and greatest. To add to my HoL post from...
View ArticleHow to Change SCSI Controllers on your Linux VM (The Lone Sysadmin)
A question from Matt Vogt prompted this, where he wants to go from the BusLogic SCSI controller to the LSI Logic SAS controller. It’s actually a straightforward conversion if you have the right steps....
View ArticleVMworld 2011: The Power of Session Surveys (Chris Colotti's Blog)
I wanted to give some statistics of a few of the sessions I presented to drive home how important these surveys are to us the presenters. David Hill and I presented CIM1264: Private VMware vCloud...
View ArticleNew Wavemaker content for the Knowledgebase (VMware Support Insider)
We're pleased to announce that WaveMaker content has been added to the VMware Knowledge Base and you can now search for WaveMaker 6.2 and 6.3 content at the familiar kb.vmware.com site. After...
View ArticleVMware announces ThinApp functionality to be added to Horizon App Manager...
Last year, during VM2010, Dr. Stephen Herrod, CTO and Senior VP of R&D at VMware announced Project Horizon, a single-sign-on (SSO) portal for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), powered by the TriCipher...
View ArticleVMware announces Horizon Mobile (virtualization.info)
In November 2008, VMware acquired Trango Virtual Processors announcing its plans to release a type-2 hypervisor for mobile phones called Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). Development didn’t go as...
View ArticleVMware announces project AppBlast and Octopus (virtualization.info)
Last week during VMworld, VMware announced two new end-user computing technologies, called project AppBlast and Octopus. AppBlast will enable any use of any application, running on any platform to be...
View ArticlevMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5...
VMware vSphere vMotion enables the live migration of virtual machines from one VMware vSphere 5 host to another, with no perceivable impact to the end user. vMotion brings invaluable benefits to...
View ArticleMicrosoft confirms its Client Hypervisor for Windows 8 – UPDATED...
In July last year, virtualization.info reported about the first details for the upcoming successor of Hyper-V called Hyper-V 3.0, at that time there were signals that the Hypervisor would be...
View ArticleA guide to implement wildcard certificates on vCloud Director 1.5 (Virtual...
I know it has been a while since I posted on this blog, but life has been crasy lately. But here we go. This blog post is mostly for my own reference, but I thought others would be in the same...
View ArticlevExpert Daily Podcast and other videos from VMworld (vMackem)
Check out the VMworld videos from Las Vegas. I did an interview for the vExpert corner section (bellow) that Michael Letschin organised. Check out the other recorded videos here. Watch live streaming...
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