Digital Ship Magazine April 2011 (vNinja.net)
Back in February 2011 I was invited, along with my IT Manager, to do a presentation at Digital Ship Scandinavia 2011. Digital Ship magazine has now published an article based on what we presented at...
View ArticleXangati introduces Bacon as a Service (J.F.V.I.)
As the tweet above proves I’m about to out scoop Eric “Scoop” Sloof of ntpro.nl fame and would like to be the first to break the news on the innovative Pork Product Delivery system (PPDS) from your...
View ArticleMoving an existing cluser in vSphere using PowerCLI (NTPRO.NL)
In this demo from Train Signal's VMware vSphere PowerCLI course, Hal Rottenberg shows how to use PowerCLI to get a VM host that is in maintenance mode and move it to an existing cluster. He'll then go...
View ArticleVMware View Client and Citirix Receiver for iPad – truly free of charge?...
VMware View users along with Citirix XenDesktop and Quest vWorkspace have an iPad client for their respective solutions. Personal device use may seem appealing in reducing the demands on IT support -...
View Article2 Free products every VMware lab must have (NTPRO.NL)
Last year, Veeam launched the not-for-resale (NFR) promotion for VMware VCPs, VCIs and vExperts (VCAPs and VCDXs as well). This provides VMware community members 2 sockets of two popular Veeam...
View ArticleTop 20 Articles for March 2011 (VMware Support Insider)
Here is our Top 20 KB list for March 2011. This list is ranked by the number of times a Tech Support ticket was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Redeeming Promo...
View ArticleVMware CTO Herrod interviews Chewbacca (Server Virtualization Blog)
If this whole CTO-of-VMware thing doesn’t work out, Stephen Herrod just might have a future in comedy. Fresh off the heels of his Microsoft Hyper-V joke at the VMware Partner Exchange conference,...
View ArticleCheck Your Work (The Lone Sysadmin)
It often pays to have someone else look at your work, if only for a moment. This post written by Bob Plankers for The Lone Sysadmin. Copyright 2011 Bob Plankers. Licensed under the Creative Commons...
View ArticleAddressing Server Based Licensing with DRS VM-Host Affinity Rules (Uptime)
It is frustrating to have your virtualization goals hampered by restrictive licensing policies based on the old physical server paradigm. Back in the day when a cluster was a pair of identical servers...
View ArticleStorage vMotion only one hard disk to another datastore in vSphere...
Sometimes it’s necessary to only migrate a single hard disk from a VM. This is the case when someone adds two 1 TB VMDK’s and fills them up completely. The maximum size of a VMFS datastore is 2TB minus...
View ArticleEricom HTML5 Client for VMware View (NTPRO.NL)
Instant access to VMware View virtual desktops possible from any web browser supporting HTML5 - no software installation required on the end-user device. HTML5 technology enables development of rich,...
View ArticleNew Broadcom bnx2x drivers released for ESX but beware, not all are supported...
VMware has released some new Broadcom bnx2x Nic Drivers which are used in HP blades for the HP NC532 Nics. As with most bnx2x network card driver updates and HP Flex-10 there’s good news, bad news and...
View ArticleHyper-V Dynamic Memory: Not Quite Ready to Demo! (VCritical)
At MMS 2011, Microsoft presented a fake demonstration of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory in a breakout session. But why?
View ArticleOn the Road Again… (RTFM Education)
Well, this blog post takes its title from one of my favourite novels and songs – Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and WIllie Nelsons 1980 hit “On the Road Again“… This week I’ve be on the other side of the...
View ArticleReview: Skeletek 4 post rack (vmDK)
After starting my new job, I was given a number of servers, a switch, and one of our I/O virtualization appliances to be used for a variety of things like hands-on labs at VMUGs, or onsite customer...
View ArticleVideo: No Joke: Kinect Managing Cloud Servers (Virtual Aleph)
From datacenterknowledge.com:The idea grew out of a tweet from of BlueShift. Weaver picked up on the idea and brought it to life. It’s amazing how the Kinect has spurred the imagination of so many...
View ArticleA prediction . . . (RomantT.net)
an abstraction of abstractions (even from definitions), we soon realise that apps written for tomorrows consumption don't have to be tied to processor architecture or even a specific OS to run
View ArticleMy ESXi 4 Whitebox (ESX Virtualization)
My One (at the moment) ESXi 4.1 whitebox runs with some SATA and SSD drives. I’m preparing a series of articles about the evolution of my homelab, but I just realized that I haven’t blogged about my...
View ArticleTop 5 Planet V12N blog posts for week 13 (VMTN Blog)
Week 13 closes out the first quarter for VMware, and we had a lot of exciting product technologies launch in the past 3 months! Remember when I said this year VMware is going to have some huge...
View ArticleIomega StorCenter ix2-200 Network Storage, Cloud Edition (VMware...
I recently acquired an Iomega ix2-200 storage appliance which is perhaps the smallest storage device in EMC’s vast portfolio, save the VMAX thumb drive I’ve heard sparse sightings of. This is a nifty...
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