Today is World Wish Day! (Blue Shift Blog)
Today is a celebration of the very first wish granted which marked the beginning of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Since that day, Make-A-Wish has grown to an international organization of almost 25,000...
View ArticleC#, WSDL, PowerShell cmdlets — Oh my! (vmDK)
Lately I’ve been working on trying to author PowerShell cmdlets with Visual Studio 2010 to talk to a web service. At first glance, I thought it would be easy. I had the WSDL and XSD files, and the...
View ArticleVMware VCAP-DCA exam command-line cheat sheet (Virtual IEF)
While preparing for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional Datacenter Administration (VCAP-DCA) exam (VDCA410) I created command-line cheat sheet. It can be hard to memorize all the commands,...
View ArticleNew ESXi Patches released – April 28 (The VMguy)
I normally don’t post these. But there are a few important symptoms that I personally have seen that look to be resolved by this patch. 2 new patches released Yesterday. You can find the details for...
View ArticleOn the CA/Ponemon Security of Cloud Computing Providers Study… (Rational...
CA recently sponsored the second in a series of Ponemon Institute cloud computing security surveys. The first, released in May, 2010 was focused on responses from practitioners: “Security of Cloud...
View ArticleNew vBookshelf launched (vSphere-land)
I just launched my new vBookshelf section of vSphere-land which can be found under the vInfo drop-down menu. I’ve gathered together over 30 books related to VMware and virtualization and have links and...
View ArticleOn Stacked Turtles & the AWS Outage… (Rational Survivability)
The best summary I could come up with:
View ArticleNew Virtualization Bookstore Added to VMblog.com (VMBlog)
Today, VMblog.com is launching a new and much overdue feature to the Web site - a virtualization bookstore . I've had many people contact me over the Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleHow to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files (ESX Virtualization)
ESXi 4.1 does not store log files locally. It’s recommended to configure syslog and get the log files persistent. You have to configure ESXi to send the logs somewhere, because they are not stored...
View ArticleVMware: Microsoft for the 21st century? (Server Virtualization Blog)
“Deep down, Maritz and his colleagues know the traditional operating system isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.” I wrote that sentence last month, when I argued that VMware’s iPad app actually...
View ArticleVMware Toolbar update (VMware Support Insider)
I just made this quick video to show you all a small change I made to the VMware Support Toolbar (available here).
View ArticleMicrosoft releases a free iSCSI target (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
Filed under: Great for the home lab and the test setup categories Shared storage is the backbone of today’s complex virtualized environments. Shared storage enables virtualization’s incredible...
View Article"Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals" Jump Start...
I'm a huge fan of VMware, but also use Hyper-V, but currently, only in my lab. At work, we're ESX all the way. However, that might not always be the case. As Microsoft improves Hyper-V, it will get...
View ArticlePC-over-IP Secure Gateway FAQs (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
VMware recently released a community document detailing some FAQs about PC-over-IP Secure Gateway. PCoIP Secure Gateway, introduced in VMware View 4.6, provides the functionality to pass the connection...
View Article“Best Practice” for Persistent ESXi scratch? (vReference)
This is third post in as many days, regarding the ESXi scratch partition – here is the first and the second. Aaron Delp posed the question – what should be a “best practice” regarding this? Should we...
View ArticleComing to a VMUG near you - everything you need to know about transitioning...
Been putting off your move to ESXi? Have questions? Looking for guidance? Register to attend one of the VMware User Group (VMUG) Regional User Conferences being held over the next several months...
View ArticleLeostream releases feature-packed update for Connection Broker 7.0 (Thinstall...
Leostream Connection Broker v.7.0 extends Leostream’s VDI capabilities as the leading independent connection broker, providing greater flexibility, simplifying deployments, and making the management of...
View ArticleHelp finding Workspace Management solutions (Thinstall Guru)
Workspace Management, also called User Workspace Management, becomes more important within the near future. Reason for that is that the end-user enforces freedom of their own devices. Mindset is...
View ArticleEnabling Long Distance Live Migration with F5 and VMware vMotion...
As more and more companies offer different way of doing cloud computing, the concept it self is getting fuzzier to the consumer. Further, after VMware has prompted the idea of Hybrid Cloud Computing,...
View ArticleMicrosoft licensing and vMotion/Live Migration (VirtualizationAdmin Blogs)
There was a day when any running instance of certain Microsoft products, such as SQL Server, suffered from license violation if that workload was migrated to another host inside of a 90 day period....
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