Don't snapshot domain controllers (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
Recently, I was helping someone with his virtual environment and I stumbled across something that made me pause - a snapshot of an Active Directory domain controller. I asked the person why the...
View ArticleThe Seismic Shift of Data Center Planning (virtualization stuff)
Friends of mine know that I have been beating on a drum for over 15 years about proper site selection for data centers. In fact I have recently blogged about it again and with all that is happening in...
View ArticleFrom Techie to Fiction Writer (Michael Poore)
It seems that uber-techie Mark Russinovich has turned to fiction writing. His name is usually associated with the Sysinternals suite of tools and his infrequent blog posts are always worth a read...
View ArticlevCenter HA Survey (Uptime)
Customer feedback is critical for us at VMware to understand our customer's needs. It helps to shape the direction of the products and features as well as help us identify any pain points. To this end,...
View ArticlevCenter Operations is GA (VMware Virtualization Management Blog)
VMware launched vCenter Operations to provide automated Operations Management for virtual and cloud infrastructure through an integrated approach to performance, capacity and configuration management....
View ArticleZimbra Desktop 7 Beta: Unable to unmarshal response for AuthResponse (That's...
Two weeks ago I’ve decided to update my Zimbra Desktop Client 2.0 to the new beta version 7. All went well so far and I could see the new look and feel. Really nice changes to the UI. After a few days...
View ArticleThe VMware View iPad Client is still #1 (That's My View)
Isn’t that great! The VMware View iPad Client 1.0 is still number one in the Apple AppStore. Loads of users already shared their great feedback through the rating function. If you’re using the client...
View ArticlePCoIP Gateway configured for home lab usage (That's My View)
One of my colleagues from the US, Chris Colotti published a nice article on his blog which describes how he connected his wife’s iPad with his View 4.6 Security Server running in the home lab. The...
View ArticleUpdated VMmark 2.1 Benchmarking Guide Available (VROOM!)
Just a quick note to inform all benchmarking enthusiasts that we have released an updated VMmark 2.1 Benchmarking Guide. You can get it from the VMmark 2.1 download page. The updated guide contains a...
View ArticleVMware vCenter Operations Documentation Links (Krystaltek)
Some quick links to the documentation I put together Evaluators guidehttp://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vCenter_Ops_Std_Eval_Guide.pdf?lp=1 Release...
View ArticleIs NetApp Missing from your Datacenter? (The Virtual Storage Guy)
On behalf of NetApp, I’m writing to you with a simple proposition: For your next storage purchase, you should consider NetApp. Things move at a fast, if not exponential pace in the data center. The...
View ArticleSt Baldrick's - Join Us & Let's Cure Cancer! (The Virtual Storage Guy)
This is your opportunity to be a hero for kids with cancer! We're hosting a St. Baldrick's event this Wednesday, March 16th in Sunnyvale, and whether you decide to shave your head, volunteer, or...
View ArticleVMware Talk Puzzler (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
I’ve been a fan of the Car Talk radio program since I was introduced to it in 1993. I hope the Tappet brothers don’t mind if I borrow the theme from one of their popular segments appropriately called...
View ArticleTalking Orchestration with DynamicOps (The Virtual Storage Guy)
NetApp brings together industry-leading IT infrastructure providers who specialize in commercial software and hardware technologies and whose benefits are optimized by NetApp storage innovations and...
View ArticleThe ultimate user profile manager will sync Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, SaaS,...
It's been a year-and-a-half since I wrote We need a new “user settings” framework before rich internet apps will replace Windows apps . I'd like to revisit the issue because it's never been solved. So...
View ArticleTrying vCenter Operations (Michael Poore)
As I mentioned a little while ago, vCenter Operations is a new management product that VMware are bringing out. Well, actually they’ve now brought it out as of Monday. I thought I’d check it out…...
View Article64 bit Musings; aka Writing scripts in a 64 bit Windows Environment....
I’m sure most of us will or have been installing 64 bit operating systems more and more so when I saw this note from my colleague Jacques Bensimon about some of the differences between 32 bit and 64...
View ArticleVMware vCloud “In A Box” for Your Home Lab (Chris Colotti's Blog)
Introduction: This outlines the configuration I personally used for installing setting up a lab based “vCloud in a box” for testing and understanding of all the vCloud components. This setup can be...
View ArticleLatest SMT design requires Complete Visibility by Admin! Yikes!...
I just finished reading, yet another Multi-Tenancy Design/Overview that claims to be secure or trusted. While I will agree that this particular design does cover Availability and some GRC (Governance,...
View ArticleCentOS customization after import (Bist's Virtualization Blog)
Today we had to get a VM from a datacenter in Australia and make it work in our datacenter in Belgium. The actual import of the VM was no issue. The only thing we had to adjust was the OS version....
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