Partners Love FlexPod - Success Stories (The Virtual Storage Guy)
At VMware Partner Exchange, I was blown away with the number of success stories our partners shared around the impact FlexPod has made within their customer accounts. As I prepare for CiscoLive, the...
View ArticleUsing VMware DRS and DPM to improve resource allocation (VMware tips and tricks)
VMware DRS and DPM enlist vMotion to move VMs among physical servers for automatic resource allocation and load balancing. And VMware DPM can help save on data center energy costs. Add to digg Add to...
View ArticleReal Life DR & BC, with VMware SRM (vSamurai)
Well, I am back from a little excursion outside of Tokyo to recharge and get temporarily away from the reality of the situation at the nuclear reactors up North in Fukushima. What better time than now...
View ArticlevCenter Operations - Part 2 (VMware Virtualization Management Blog)
In the previous post, I provided a general context behind vCenter Operations and the rationale for integrated performance, capacity and configuration management. In this blog post, I will highlight a...
View ArticleXangati VDI Dashboard: What’s this mean for Skynet? (SeanClark.us)
Disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge on Xangati’s plans to build Skynet or not. I just blogged a tongue-in-cheek post hinting that their core product could possibly be a core underpinning of a...
View ArticleXsigo: A Closer Look at Virtual I/O (vDestination)
About a month ago I was approached by Matt Mancini and Adam Baum who had read my blog and wanted to invite me to an ATNG meeting in Phoenix. ATNG is a new user group founded in January of 2011 by Matt...
View ArticleVMsafe API (VMGuru.nl)
I sometimes wonder why some things in the industry go so quick, while on the other hand things go so slow. One of the things that goes so slow are the products that make use of the VMsafe API. Oké...
View ArticleCluster/vCenter Admin Tools (vroem.co.za)
I am currently busy with a Cluster design (not vCenter as that is in place already). As this was going along and me building a home lab I was thinking of what default tools I useally use and might use...
View ArticleDo you own a VMware home lab (Virtualize Planet)
I’m interested how many people use VMware at home…
View ArticleChinwag with Mike – Rick Vanover [EPISODE 49] (RTFM Education)
This week chinwaggie is Rick Vanover. He’s a Software Strategy Specilist at Veeam Software, and in a previous life worked as a Systems Engineer at Siemens Dematic. Like many folks in the virtualization...
View ArticleChads WorldEpisode 3 is up! (Virtual Geek)
Yes, it’s another episode of “Chad’s World” – a chance to see Wade and I make fools out of ourselves :-) This time – Pat Gelsinger makes a guest appearance, we have another great customer (Jay from the...
View ArticleSecurity as a Service: Is it Safe? (Virtualization Practice)
Last week I spoke with two different Security as a Service vendors, each with their own approaches to security as a service. The first company I spoke to was CloudPassage who just exited stealth mode...
View ArticleSome PowerCLI 101 – Connecting to Multiple vCenters (Professional VMware)
A few things brought this post together. First is that Glen Sizemore of Get-Admin and I have co-submitted a “vSphere Automation 101 – PowerCLI” session to the VMworld 2011 CFP. We thought it’d be an...
View ArticleVCP-DT Prep Video – Installing the VMware View Composer (NTPRO.NL)
While I was prepping for my upcoming VCP-DT (beta) exam, I couldn’t resist recording a new video and here it is. The VMware View Composer, a key component of VMware vSphere 4.6, is tightly integrated...
View ArticleFive VMware security breaches that should never happen (VMware tips and tricks)
Some VMware security breaches result from laziness, and sometimes the hard way is the only way to protect your VMs. Stay vigilant so these VMware security breaches won’t happen. Add to digg Add to...
View ArticleTech Ramblings: The Conception of A Wireless Duopoly (vDestination)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 3 years, you are fully aware of the wireless mobile war that’s been going on. The major players are Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. It seems...
View ArticleUnder the Covers with Storage vMotion (Uptime)
Hi, I recently posted on how vMotion works (http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2011/02/vmotion-whats-going-on-under-the-covers.html) and figured it would be good to follow-up with a similar blog covering...
View ArticleFull color version of the new book? (Frank Denneman)
If you are following us on twitter you may have seen some recent tweets regarding our forthcoming book. Duncan (@duncanyb) and I have already started work on a new version of the HA and DRS Technical...
View ArticleVMware vCloud Director Host vCDNI Statistics Utility (virtual-blog.com)
After reading a colleagues (Kamau Wanguhu) blog article on vCD Network Isolation today I found out about a tool included with the VMware vCloud Director agent installed on ESX/ESXi Hosts. This is a...
View ArticleVirtualizing the SAPGUI with Thinapp is now supported (Virtualization for SAP...
With VMware ThinApp, applications are packaged into single executables that run completely isolatedfrom each other and the operating system for conflict-free execution on end-point devices.Application...
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