Why do you use VMware? Hyper-V? Xen? (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
With recent news that the Target chain of superstores is moving to a fully Hyper-V hosted environment, we are reminded that there is more to life than VMware and that other platforms can and do serve...
View ArticleVMware SRM and EMC Symmetrix (Think©Loud)
Lately I’ve been working on a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.1 implementation in combination with a the Symmetrix storage arrays by EMC. Designing and figuring out how to get [...]
View ArticleVertical Clouds? (blog.virtualtacit.com)
It’s a relatively new term to my ears, but the term “Vertical Clouds” has been around in some form or another for decades. And yes, vertical clouds are exactly what you think they would be. That is...
View ArticleDetermine your Office 2010 Version (VMwareInfo.com)
Moshe Silber sent over a quick tip: I was having an issue at a client adding an Office 2010 key to an existing installation. They have an Open License but Office was refusing to recognize it. We opened...
View ArticleVAAI sweetness (Yellow Bricks)
Nothing deep technical this time, I just want to make clear how cool VAAI is! Last week I noticed on twitter that some people reported some nice figures around VAAI. I asked them if they were willing...
View ArticlevSphere Client for the iPad (Virtualization Practice)
The VMware Community Roundtable, which is recorded every Wednesday, has been available for download from iTunes for the last couple of years or about as long has the podcast has been presented on...
View ArticleAvamar Windows VMware Image backup fails with Generic 10013 error in Avamar...
For the past day and a half I’ve been receiving the above error in my Avamar v5.0.3.29 server and in VMware vCentre every time I tried to backup certain virtual machines via the Windows VMware Image...
View ArticleVirtualizing SAPGUI with ThinApp now officially supported (That's My View)
Deploying the SAPGUI can be very time consuming in a large enterprise environment. It can even be worse if you’re using physical desktops, virtual desktops and terminal services because you may need to...
View ArticleEMC and Primary Storage Dedupe/Compression=50%+ saved. (Virtual Geek)
I’ve gone on in the past (see here) on the topic on my personal way of looking at storage efficiency as “3 dimensions” ($/W/sqft per GB, $/W/sq.ft. per IO, $/W/sq.ft. per unplanned change). Down the...
View ArticleFive VMware security breaches that should never happen (vSphere-land)
VMware security breaches should not be taken lightly, especially now that there’s a spotlight on regulatory compliance and the shift toward cloud computing. Virtual hosts house many workloads, and if...
View ArticleNot enough physical memory after installing W7 SP1 VMware Workstation error...
When you install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 you might end up with an error while starting a VM. Those issues might appear not only on Windows 7 but also on Windows 2008R2 after installing SP1. After...
View ArticleTintri – virtual machine aware storage (Yellow Bricks)
This week I had a call with a new and exciting company called Tintri. Tintri has been flying under the radar for the last couple of years and has worked really hard to develop a new product. Tintri was...
View ArticleA new generation of storage boxes (Run Virtual)
Today a new company announced a new storage appliance. Not one of those traditional ones where you create raid group on your disks and lun on your raid groups, to then create a vmfs on and then store...
View ArticleVCP-DT Prep Video – The VMware View 4.6 Security Server and PCoIP (NTPRO.NL)
In this video Mark Benson discusses the architecture and setup of View 4.6 Security Server to support remote access with PCoIP.
View ArticleA Consultant’s Guide to Twitter (Jason's Nash's Blog)
Watching me use my Mac can, at times, be like watching someone using that crazy interface in Minority Report. I’m flying from Spaces desktop to desktop throwing apps around with Expose. When someone...
View ArticleCrystalHD support now merged in FFmpeg and MPlayer (Wubble)
I’m pleased to finally be able to announce that my CrystalHD support patches have been accepted into FFmpeg and MPlayer – if you grab the latest source from each of the projects, you’ll be good to go....
View ArticleNetApp PowerShell Survival Guide (Krystaltek)
The NetApp PowerShell Survival Guide was the creation of Chris Lionetti of NetApp. The final version was published earlier last month. The guide is an introduction to using PowerShell and assumes...
View ArticleCloud with Grid Computing Architecture (Malaysia VMware Communities)
CA 3Tera Applogic, is some of the new thing I recently look into it. The main reason I had a look on this are due to the long development and go to market cycle that will need to go through no matter...
View ArticleHP Flex-10 Firmware 3.17 released (WoodITWork.com)
HP has released its latest Flex-10 Firmware version 3.17 which has been deemed * RECOMMENDED *. It doesn’t seem to appear under a search for HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module for c-Class...
View ArticlevCenter Operations: Integrated and Secure? (Virtualization Practice)
VMware released 3 versions of vCenter Operations, standard, advanced, Enterprise. We have already discussed the abilities of vCenter Operations vCenter Operations – vSphere Performance, Capacity and...
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