VCAP DCA Voucher Give Away – Round 2, Live Lab (Professional VMware)
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends… On this week’s BrowBag we’re giving away yet another VCAP-DCA voucher. As we talked about before, round 2 will be a live lab. What do I mean? The...
View ArticleAnother way to enable management traffic on ESXi (virtuallyGhetto)
Here is another way in you can enable the management traffic type on a VMkernel interface in ESXi without having to resort to using the vSphere API, this especially useful when automating a kickstart...
View ArticleWindows apps to non-Windows devices is still a hole in VMware's end user...
On Monday VMware's CTO of end user computing (née "desktop") Scott Davis blogged about VMware's end user computing strategy with regards to the cloud. Late last year I wrote that Terminal Server would...
View ArticleVMware appoints four new co-presidents (virtualization.info)
In July 2008 virtualization.info reported about Diane Greene leaving as CEO of VMware and being replaced by Paul Maritz coming from Microsoft. Now networkworld reports that Maritz has given up...
View ArticleHytrust hires new CEO away from VMware (virtualization.info)
Hytrust the company providing access control and configuration management solutions has hired John de Santis as their new chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), tmcnet reports. De Santis comes...
View ArticleRelease: Veeam nworks Management Pack and Smart Plug-In 5.6...
In December last year Veeam made available a Release Canditate of version 5.6 of the nworks Smart Plug-In software for monitoring and management of VMware from HP Operations Manager. Now...
View ArticleVMware launches VCDX 4 certification (virtualization.info)
VMware has updated it Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification to version 4. The VCDX certification was introduced in August 2008 for virtualization architects. The VCDX is the highest level of...
View ArticleLatest VMarks published by Fujitsu (ESX Virtualization)
Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S6 with VMware ESX v4.1 / vCenter 4.1 VMarks published. Score of 6.81 at 7 tiles. The news come from VMware Website where the results were published. I can tell that the RX 200...
View ArticleVDI and Microsoft Outlook, analysing the variables (myvirtualcloud.net)
VDI is a multitude of technologies that must work together in a premeditated way; and this we already know. However, couple weeks ago an interesting discussion in one of VMware’s internal forums...
View ArticleQ&A: Gluster CTO Talks Cloud, Storage and Scale-Out NAS (VMBlog)
Yesterday, Gluster introduced its first scale-out NAS virtual appliance for VMware and Amazon Web Services . And after their announcement, I had the... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticlePowerCLI: VMware Tools one-liners (ICT-Freak.nl)
In this post I’ll show you three PowerCLI one-liners to perform some operations with VMware Tools. The first one-liner will return all Powered on VM’s with Windows selected as guest OS and perform a...
View ArticleP2Ving MS-DOS Machines … (VMwareInfo.com)
imageToday I got a chance to P2V some DOS machines for a client looking to virtualize some VERY old, seldom used, but important enough to keep accounting data. You know the ones; the big beige...
View ArticleExploring a Limitation of VMware DRS (Virtualization Practice)
I have been a big fan of VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). VMware DRS is a service or feature that will dynamically allocate and balance computing resources across the hosts in a cluster....
View ArticleDownloading and licensing vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) (VMware KBTV)
Here is another video from our Licensing Support team. This video discusses how the vSphere Hypervisor product offering is licensed and demonstrates how to apply the license using the vSphere Client....
View ArticleVMware ready for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (VMGuru.nl)
Yesterday VMware announced that it is ready to deliver the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud Datacenter services. For now this is only available from BlueLock and Colt and...
View ArticleUse Event Badge To Repair Broken Backpack Or Luggage Zippers (VM /ETC)
The average virtualization admin, engineer, manager, and general IT person probably goes to half a dozen events a year where they receive a name badge. I’m just guessing, but at least 2/3 of those...
View ArticleWhat do Hyper-V and the VMware CTO’s dog have in common? (Server...
ORLANDO — VMware CTO Steve Herrod was just on stage at Partner Exchange 2011, showing a demo of a pet clinic application running on VMware’s Spring platform. Herrod ended the demo by showing a picture...
View ArticleVMware: Train Hard or Go Home (vDestination)
If you’ve ever worked out, been to a gym or been in earshot of a couple of muscle heads, you’ve surely heard the term, “Train Hard or Go Home.” Sometimes insight comes from the unlikeliest of places....
View ArticlevSoup Big Fat Pipes with Bob Episode #4 (vSoup podcast)
vSoup Episode #4 is now available! Bob Plankers from The Lone Sysadmin joins us this episode for a veritable buffet of vSoup, it seems to be of a distinctly networking flavour this week with a light...
View ArticleLearning Powershell (Virtualised Reality)
Why I wanted to learn Powershell When installing and managing virtual infrastructures there are lots of repetitive tasks, when repetitive tasks are involved there is always the chance for mistakes....
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