BrownBag Success Story – RJ Ratan (Professional VMware)
I’ve done some reflecting on the BrownBags recently, reviewing stats and the like and came across a recent success story. Who is RJ? RJ is a virtualization guru with a Texas based Telco and was one of...
View ArticleTeradici PCoIP Demo with VMware at HIMSS2011 (That's My View)
Stuart Robinson, Manager of Systems Engineering at Teradici shows how well PCoIP performs over a WAN connection from Orlando to Canada. This video is from this years HIMSS2011 event in Florida.
View ArticleStorage for virtualization: New vendors, new protocols (Server Virtualization...
Virtualization pros can make their lives easier by consolidating their storage vendors and considering Fibre Channel alternatives. That’s according to a recent report from Forrester analyst Andrew...
View ArticleNew community launched: VMware vSphere Client for iPad (VMTN Blog)
VMware vSphere is the industry's most complete and robust virtualization platform, offering the highest levels of availability and responsiveness. The VMware vSphere Client for iPad is a companion...
View ArticleNew vSphere PowerCLI Video Training Video Demo (VMware Videos)
The new Train Signal vSphere PowerCLI video training course by PowerCLI guru and vExpert, Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000 on Twitter), will go on sale Monday, March 21. This 11 hour video training course is...
View ArticleTop 5 Planet V12N blog posts for week 11 (VMTN Blog)
Massimo Re Ferre - vShield products packaging explained (with a focus on vCloud Director) - The way VMware is packaging / positioning vShield technologies isn’t clear to everyone. This shouldn’t be...
View ArticleExcited about EMCWorld 2011? : Show it off (Nickapedia)
I was working on something completely different when I realized some of the code/graphics I had put together would look quite cool as a screensaver. So if you are a fan of the cloud, a fan of EMC, or...
View ArticleHow to enable SSH security banner on ESXi (virtuallyGhetto)
There was a pretty interesting question on the VMTN forums this week about adding a security banner to ESXi prior to user authentication via SSH. With classic ESX, this can easily be enabled by...
View ArticleUsing the vMA to rescan my HBA’s (Yellow Bricks)
Customer requested output for all HBA controllers of the ESXi hosts. Because ESXi is used we decided to do generate this output through the vMA appliance. Here is how we did this: * optional * $ ssh...
View ArticleWelcome Nick Howell and the Virtual Arcade (The Virtual Storage Guy)
Our Cloud and Virtualization Technical Marketing Engineering Team recently added the well-know and highly respected industry expert Nick Howell (aka That1GuyNick). I get jazzed every time I’m in the...
View ArticleXencenter doesn’t work on Windows 7 (Malaysia VMware Communities)
If you are trying to install the Xencenter on Windows 7, you may face an error which due to the pre-requirement for .net framework 2.0 as part of the installation. It will fail automatically as windows...
View Articlenetwork bandwidth transfer.xlsx (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
Many years ago, before I got involved with VMware, before VMware existed in fact, I was a Systems Engineer supporting Microsoft Windows Servers. I also dabbled in technology related things such as...
View Articleunexpected laptop hard disk failure. No data loss. (Conrey.org)
I had been noticing some lock-ups on my laptop. At first it was once a week. Then it started becoming more frequent. As my personal laptop only gets minimal attention and only when I’m home, it was an...
View ArticleTeam05 GeekWeek Review – We Won (Jase's Place)
On Friday, Team05 completed GeekWeek. For those that don’t know, GeekWeek is a lot of training, implementation, and teamwork. To be honest, it felt like a rite of passage. Day 1 The first day started...
View ArticleNeed your help ... What would you like to see ... (Uptime)
Hello all, We are currently just starting our work on the marketing 'collateral' we need for our upcoming releases. The products I work with include VMware Data Recovery (vDR) and Site Recovery Manager...
View ArticleTips for using the iPad vSphere Client (vSphere-land)
A few tips and tricks for using the new iPad vSphere Client: 1. The vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) appliance is required, the iPad vSphere Client cannot directly connect to hosts and vCenter Servers....
View ArticleScense User Workspace Management is the next generation Application Delivery...
Although the whole world speaks about the Cloud, it seems yet far away for educational organizations. Some schools consider using virtual desktops to deliver applications to their students. Thin...
View ArticleMicrosoft Operations Manager user? Monitor VMware vSphere for free...
I’m a big user of Microsoft’s System Center product line having deployed Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager and Operations Manager in my environment. The one area we’ve not been doing...
View ArticleCitrix XenDesktop on VMware vSphere: Important considerations (VMware tips...
Deploying Citrix XenDesktop on VMware vSphere is a common practice. It’s not necessarily more difficult to configure than a single-vendor setup, but expect to encounter some hurdles. Add to digg Add to...
View ArticleSoft Communication and Hard Communication (DoubleCloud)
Communication is always important in any teamwork environment. This is especially true in software development where changes are constant. There are two levels of possible communications in software...
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