Release: PacketSentry Virtual Probe (virtualization.info)
PacketMotion, a company focusing on User Activity Management and Network Visibility, announced the availability of its VM-to-VM traffic monitoring solution, PacketSentry Virtual Probe. The lack of...
View ArticleSuccess! RES Software and Pierre Marmignon's company come to an agreement...
A month ago I wrote that RES Software had sent a legal letter to Pierre Marmignon (and his employer, OVERLAP Groupe) demanding that he ceases the distribution of a free product he wrote called...
View ArticleA dive in Windows Azure with Mark Russinovich (virtualization.info)
Mark E. Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft. He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before it was acquired by Microsoft and...
View ArticleVeeams Next Big Thing (Virtualised Reality)
Last week Veeam launched a countdown to the Next BIG Thing on there website, the clock is counting down to the 16th of May, there are no other details on there website regarding what this maybe so it’s...
View ArticleNimbula partners with Red Hat (virtualization.info)
Today at the Red Hat SummitNimbula announced that its flagship product, Nimbula Director, will support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. Nimbula will also work...
View ArticleAppleScripts for Yojimbo, Camino, and Skim (blog.scottlowe.org)
If you are a Mac user and are interested in learning more about how AppleScript might help you be more effective, read on.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for...
View ArticleFastNFS: Mounting a NFS Datastore to Several vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI...
I’ve mentioned before about how I really do not like repeating the same task over and over and over – ESPECIALLY when working in a GUI. One of those tasks is manually mounting a NFS datastore to dozens...
View ArticleRiverbed announces Steelhead support for XenDesktop and VMware clouds...
Riverbed announced two new press releases[1] – [2] the enhancement of its flagship Steelhead product to include optimization of Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop solution and for ESX powered clouds....
View ArticleFederated Clouds? Possible? (Virtualization Practice)
Mike DiPetrillo's post entitled VMware is Building Clouds sparked some interesting thoughts and discussion about what it means to have federated clouds and how do you define such federation? Is...
View ArticleLearn PowerCLI with Trainsignal’s vSphere PowerCLI training (ESX Virtualization)
New training from TrainSignal – VMware vSphere PowerCLI training. First of all, don’t be afraid to see some PowerCLI commands or say that that it’s not for me. Hey, even me which I’m not a scripting...
View ArticleInstalling the SQL Native Client for vCenter ODBC (Professional VMware)
Oh my… when it comes to tasks that are set and forget, this one was mostly forget. Not so much setting up the ODBC Connection, rather installing the SQL Native Client ODBC Driver for SQL 2008 when SQL...
View ArticleHome Lab expansion… (Yellow Bricks)
I’ve posted an overview of my homelab a while back and it changed a bit over the course of the last couple of months so I wanted to do an update of the article. Let me disclose first that Drobo was...
View ArticleBack after a long run (It's Just Another Layer)
I know it has been a very quiet set of months here. Life has thrown me a couple curve balls and I’ve had to make tough choices on what gets use of my time. I’ve got many a posts coming so thanks for...
View ArticlevCloud Solutions Promo: Save Over 25% on Core Components vCloud Director,...
Effective May 1st, get VMware vCloud Director, vCenter Chargeback, vShield Edge and vCloud Connector in one easy bundle to build your cloud. With vCloud, run an efficient cloud securely within your...
View ArticleHarry Labana is the new CTO of AppSense (virtualization.info)
AppSense announced that Harry Labana (biography will be the new CTO of the application virtualization vendor. Labana is leaving Citrix, where he was leading the company core desktop virtualizaton...
View ArticleRelease: VKernel CapacityVIEW (virtualization.info)
VKernel released today CapacityVIEW (download link), a freeware diagnostic tool for VMware. It is a quick and lean tool, meant as ad administrator’s helper for quick diagnostic of issues on...
View ArticleVMware Clarifies Support for Microsoft Clustering (Virtual Insanity)
VMware published KB Article 1037959 ( http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037959 ) on April 18, 2011 in an effort to clarify VMware’s position on running Microsoft Clustering technologies on vSphere. Below is a...
View ArticleHow to PXE boot from your trunked vmnic0 (vReference)
I’ve recently been thinking about the practicalities of PXE booting ESXi servers. Sounds great, but how do you make this work in a typical environment? Using trunked connections on ESXi hosts is very...
View ArticleHow VMware snapshots work (VMware tips and tricks)
Disk snapshots can save VMware virtual servers from patches and upgrades gone wrong. This tip covers how to create and work with various types of snapshot files. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to...
View ArticleNew Licensing APIs Since VMware vSphere 4: Check License Expiration...
In my previous blog, I introduced the new licensing APIs since vSphere 4. As promised, I will write samples showing how to use the APIs. Here is the first sample (stay tuned to next one, coming soon)....
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