vSoup Golden Week #9 (vSoup podcast)
vSoup Episode #9, unlike AWS and PSN, is now available! This time around we’re joined Christopher Wells aka the vSamurai. At last, the vSamurai and vNinja gets talking! Chris talks about his earthquake...
View ArticleCloud SLAs Are Worthless But Does this Matter? (Virtualization Practice)
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an excellent expectations-managing mechanism, but it's important to manage your own expectations of what an SLA can realistically accomplish. Just those three words...
View ArticlevSoup Podcast & Tech Field Day 6 (vSamurai)
I had the pleasure, about a week ago, of recording an episode of the vSoup podcast along with a few of my distinguished peers in the virtualization world: Ed Czerwin, Chris Dearden and Christian Mohn....
View ArticleAlmost 40 % more visitors in April 2011 than last year (ESX Virtualization)
Sunday’s post. Looking at Google Analytics stats one can compare the monthly stats to another period. I was wondering how many visitors this website got last year. And to my surprise, there was almost...
View ArticleVMware is Building Clouds? (Mike D's Blog)
I was sitting here going through some email today when I got a nice slide sent to me from some of the vSpecialists at EMC. I hope they won’t mind me sharing this with you but I thought it drove home a...
View ArticleScense package: User Friendly Drive Name (Thinstall Guru)
Today I have developed my first “own” Scense package! With this Scense package you can rename existing drive mappings to a user friendly drive name. For example you can rename a users home folder drive...
View ArticleCitrix's Desktop CTO Harry Labana leaves Citrix for AppSense! (Brian Madden...
In a blog post on Citrix.com , Citrix's desktop CTO Harry Labana announced today that he's leaving the company to join AppSense, where he'll be a VP and their CTO. Harry joined Citrix in July 2009. In...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for Week Ending 4/30/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
VMware Data Recovery VMware Data Recovery backup to NFS fails with the error: Trouble writing to destination volume, error -102 (1037309) Date Published: 4/25/2011 VMware Data Recovery backup to CIFS...
View ArticleNew KB articles for VMware View (That's My View)
VMware published some new knowledge base articles for VMware View. VMware View Manager Cannot log in to the View Admin portal after a fresh installation of View Manager (1037952) Date Published:...
View ArticleLatest Published Article - An Overview of VMware Desktop Certifications...
VMware desktop virtualization certifications: An overview4/28/2011 VMware has created a new line of desktop certifications based around...
View ArticleUnable to commit snapshot after VADP backup (Virtual IEF)
When doing a health check I found the following error during the remove if a snapshot in vCenter: Unable to access file <unspecified filename> since it is locked There is a problem when...
View ArticleVM Advanced ISO. Free Tools For Advanced Tasks (Kendrick Coleman)
I have compiled a list of free VMware vSphere tools that any administrator can use. I even made a Top 10 list out of that. But what about some more advanced tasks? Look no further. I've created a...
View ArticleA Month with Localscope (blog.scottlowe.org)
If you travel a fair amount, an iPhone app named Localscope might be something you'd find handy.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on...
View ArticleVMware View 4.6 QuickStart Series (That's My View)
If you’re a VMware partner and interested in VMware View, you should join the new VMware View 4.6 QuickStart Series. The online events will be hold worldwide on 11th and 12th May. The content for the...
View ArticleBrownBag – PowerCLI 101 Video Online (Professional VMware)
First a huge thanks to Glenn & the other authors of the PowerCLI Reference. If you don’t have a copy… you are doing yourself a disservice. Another thanks to those who attended live and continue to...
View ArticleMissing Active Directory option in Citrix Provisioning Services (VMwareInfo.com)
I ran across a pretty puzzling situation earlier last week that I thought I would post about. I was implementing a fairly straightforward XenDesktop POC and had set up some Windows 7 VMs which were...
View ArticleThe importance of a vSphere health check to VARs (vSphere-land)
Your customer’s vSphere environment may seem healthy enough at first glance, but external appearances can be deceiving. Hidden problems may lurk under the cover that can eventually cause the...
View ArticleTop 20 Articles for April 2011 (VMware Support Insider)
Here is our Top 20 KB list for April 2011. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Service Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article....
View ArticleWindows Thin PC Release Candidate is now available (That's My View)
I just got an email from Microsoft Connect saying that the Windows Thin PC Release Candidate is now available. Windows Thin PC is a smaller footprint version of Windows 7 that allows customers to...
View ArticleMicrosoft announces new head for Azure Application Platform...
Scott Guthrie, currently the VP of .Net Platform at Microsoft, is now leading of the Azure Application Platform group, reporting directly to Ted Kummert in BPD, while the Azure team...
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