ITaaS: Managing Software Costs within Hybrid Clouds (Virtualization Practice)
Managing licensing and utilization costs is a mess today in the physical world. Introducing elastic scaling of workloads into a hybrid private/public cloud introduces new uncertainties and new software...
View ArticleFYI: New NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (Rational Survivability)
In case you weren’t aware, NIST has a WIKI for collaboration on Cloud Computing. You can find it here. They also have a draft of their v1.0 Cloud Computing Reference Architecture, which builds upon...
View ArticlePause Site Recovery Manager to get the last copy of your data (The VMguy)
I was installing Site Recovery Manager in Miami today for a customer who replicates to Atlanta. I’ve been working with them the last few days to setup SRM and get their Protection Groups and Recovery...
View ArticleAutomate Your UCS Environment (Mike D's Blog)
I’ve seen a ton of UCS environments out at the various cloud providers and enterprises I’ve been working with. You have to hand it to Cisco – they have really built something fantastic and know how to...
View ArticleNew Mind Map - Troubleshooting vSphere Management Issues (VMware Support...
Here is a brand new document guaranteed to be popular—Our Mind Map for vSphere Management issues! We have featured Mind Maps before in this blog and gotten fabulous feedback on them, so we are...
View ArticleMozy for the iPhone (VMwareInfo.com)
image image I recently stumbled across a cool new app for my iPhone. Mozy for iOS! I’ve been a user of the free Mozy Home for a while now. Mozy Home Free gives you 2GB of automatic cloud backup from...
View ArticleRelease: VMware Workstation 7.1.4/Player 3.1.4/ACE 2.7.4 (virtualization.info)
VMware has updated its virtualization platform Workstation and Player and platform wrapper product ACE to build 385536. Besides fixing security issues and known problems this version adds support for...
View ArticlevCenter Orchestrator Blog Launched (VMware Virtualization Management Blog)
Just want to announce that we recently launched the new vCenter Orchestrator blog. Please check it out. We are also extending vCenter Orchestrator's capabilities to the broader VMware cloud ecosystem...
View ArticlevCenter Operations (The Console)
Posted by Ramin Sayar VP Product Management & Marketing, Enterprise Management At VMware we understand it’s not enough just to build a dynamic, virtualized infrastructure – you also need to manage...
View ArticleIs it possible to use Hyper-V as a Client Hypervisor? (VirtualizationAdmin...
Bare metal client hypervisors have potential to be the next big thing in virtualization. Citrix has XenClient, Virtual Computer has NxTop, VMware has/had plans for CVP. However, there doesn't seem to...
View ArticleCloud City and VMware (VMwareTV)
Cloud City and VMware To see Steve Herrod interview other tech giants check out - vmware.com VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new...
View ArticleRelease: CiRBA Data Center Intelligence 6.1 (virtualization.info)
A couple of weeks ago CiRBA released version 6.1 of its capacity planning tool for virtual infrastructures; Data Center Intelligence. This version is the follow-up of version 6.0 which was...
View ArticlevCloud Catalogs Networking, and External Dependencies (Chris Colotti's Blog)
There is often some confusion by customers that I speak to about VMware vCloud about how and where the “Catalogs” function becomes useful as well as how we deal with external dependancies,...
View ArticleSome information from my friends at VKernel (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
Last year, during a Gestalt IT Tech Field Day adventure to the Boston area, I had the good fortune to meet with a number of people from VKernel, a company that specializes in performance and capacity...
View ArticleMiddle Management in the Cloud (VMware vCloud Blog)
By John Ellis, Chief vCloud Architect at BlueLock A cloud based infrastructure can save an organization a great deal of time and effort in building servers and provisioning new resources. While this...
View ArticleBrownBag Follow-Up – Scott Lowe Edition (Professional VMware)
The Video ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBags – Scott Lowe from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Scott’s Take Away: Know the products you are working with. Then, know them some more. …Really, know them...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Running VMware vSphere on an EMC VNXe 3100 (TechHead)
Here’s a white paper that I came across in my travels whilst at work that I thought may be of interest to those of you wanting to find out more about running VMware vSphere on the recently released EMC...
View ArticleHow to balance VMware Performance and Capacity – video (ESX Virtualization)
17 min of video discussing the balance between performance and capacity. In this video Bryan Semple from vKernel discuss about performance and capacity. The video is quite long – 17 minutes. What’s...
View ArticleTintri’s VMstore T440 - Hundreds of VMs in 4U (NTPRO.NL)
This evening I had a cool GoToMeeting with Tintri’s David Friedlander and VP of Engineering Pratik Wadher. They showed me their new Tintri VMstore, it’s the first VM aware storage system. The VMstore...
View ArticleMicrosoft Jumpstart for VMware professionals Day 3–VDI (J.F.V.I.)
Yesterday saw the final day of the Virtualisation Jumpstart program hosted by Corey Hynes and Symon Perriman – I can finally try and get my body clock back to normal ! The main topic for the day was...
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