My ESXi home lab - the Blue Bad Boy (Virtual Infrastructure Tips)
A while back, I decided to build my own home lab whitebox (the Blue Bad Boy) with ESXi 4.1 U1. I've been running Workstation on my laptop with 4 GB memory for some years but the limitations to this...
View ArticleGreat new MS clustering KB (vReference)
(Update: BTW, I’m not being sarcastic. I really do like this KB very much, I think it’s an excellent resource.) One of my more popular posts that I wrote a couple of years ago was about configuring...
View ArticleVCAP-DCA… done! (vspecialist)
Where do I begin? I am so glad it’s over. It’s been a long time since I took an exam where I had to wait for the results. Maybe even 14 years! Even then though, I knew the exact date when the results...
View ArticleBug: ESXi 4.1U1 does not svmotion from thick to thin as expected (The VMguy)
Hopefully this issue will get fixed soon. I was working on a new deployment for a customer when I noticed this issue. The issue is this: I created a few windows VMs for this customer to use as...
View ArticleVDI Printing. Is it the Nemesis it was for Terminal Services? Part I...
VDI Printing. Is it the Nemesis it was for Terminal Services? If not, would client hypervisors help, or is it that traditional desktops delivery is the best method for dealing with printing...
View ArticlePerformance tests with FreeNAS 7.2 with my homelab (ESX Virtualization)
Connecting to my ESXi 4.1 host and doing some performance tests with IOMeter. In my last post I have installed FreeNAS 7.2 on the homemade NAS box. I took the way to build a homemade NAS box, which in...
View ArticleQuest partners with MokaFive (virtualization.info)
Quest and MokaFive have announced a partnership in which Quest will bundle the MokaFive client virtualization solution with its own VDI connection broker software, calling it the vWorkspace MokaFive...
View ArticleESXi Is NOT Inferior To ESX! (DeinosCloud)
Designing a VMware environment with the ESXi hypervisor is as natural as breathing but still I have customers questioning about my choice. Many customers’ IT guys and future vAdmins are still...
View ArticleThe PowerCLI Book Raffle – Behind the scenes (Arnim van Lieshout)
Now that our PowerCLI Book Raffle has ended and the lucky winner is published, I want to give you a full disclosure of the drawing process. Because our PowerCLI Book is about PowerCLI, what other tool...
View ArticleInfoWorld reviews Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware virtualization...
Last week InfoWorld published the results from a test comparing the solutions from Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware held at the Advanced Network Computing Lab at the University of...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for week ending 4/16/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
VMware Data Recovery Considerations while using CIFS Share as dedupe stores in VMware Data Recovery (1036622) Date Published: 4/14/2011 Restarting the datarecovery service on a VMware Data Recovery...
View ArticleScheduled Maintenance April 20 (VMware Support Insider)
VMware will be performing system maintenance to several VMware web applications. Portals will be unavailable on Wednesday, April 20, from 7:30 PM to 8:00 PM Pacific Time If you need to file a support...
View ArticlevExpert 2011 Open for Nomination NOW!!! (Malaysia VMware Communities)
Once a year, the vExpert Award from VMware Inc had been launched and open for nomination now. You can nominate any of the person that you think they had been actively engaged in community, blog, user...
View ArticlevSphere Changed Block Tracking **on Restore** (Virtual Geek)
This post is going to deep-dive into vSphere’s vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) Changed Block Tracking on restore – something not yet widely used (though when you see the results, you’ll likely...
View ArticleVMTurbo Upgrades! (Professional VMware)
I’ll save you posting the entire press release, and just call out the new or upgraded features: Create custom groups of resources, either physical or virtual; Create custom logins (customer views) with...
View ArticleBoston 2011 Marathon (Virtual Geek)
This blog is my personal blog (as I note in the about section), but it tends to be pretty work-centric, which for me, means there’s a lot of VMware and EMC stuff, as well as stuff about my corporate...
View ArticleVideo: finally here vSphere Client for iPad (Part Two) (Virtual Aleph)
... let's use the app.cheers\mf
View ArticleDesign Question from a Reader (blog.scottlowe.org)
A reader contacted me about a design question, and I thought that his situation might be useful to spark a discussion around vSphere design and his needs. Read the full article and jump into the...
View ArticleVMware's Cloud Foundry looks to disrupt the PaaS market (InfoWorld...
Last week, VMware unveiled the company's new open source platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud offering called Cloud Foundry. The new cloud service promises to make it much easier for developers to get...
View ArticleNew ESXi test box: the green machine (Conrey.org)
For the longest time I had effectively removed most of the lab equipment from my house*. I was down to a laptop and a thin client, with most of my test gear either moved into a datacenter, or services...
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