Outage on VMware Cloud Foundry (Blade Watch)
http://www.cio.com/article/681279/VMware_Causes_Second_Outage_While_Recovering_From_First?source=CIONLE_nlt_datacenter_2011-05-04 Network World — VMware’s (VMW) attempt to recover from an outage in its...
View ArticleVMware kills cloud’s promise, Red Hat says (Server Virtualization Blog)
BOSTON — Your choice of hypervisor is a vote for the future of IT. And to choose VMware is to vote against the promise of cloud computing. That’s been the message from Red Hat executives here at the...
View ArticleRecent ESXi articles (vReference)
I’ve published a number of ESXi specific posts recently. However, I realize that I tend to publish these at weekends or late in the evening, which isn’t optimal for most readers coming from Planet...
View ArticleInterested in how Transfer Server works? (That's My View)
My colleague Simon Long from PSO published a nice write up on how the View Transfer Server works today. It’s not deep technical, more high-level but definitely a great read. Check it out. Link: Simon Long
View ArticleVMTurbo Free Performance and Efficiency Reporter (VMware Virtualization...
Press Release: VMTurbo Announces Availability of Free Performance and Efficiency Reporter Reporting joins Monitoring application as a complimentary, useful productivity tool that provides valuable...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning – Orphaned VM Files with vCO (Professional VMware)
Hey… if Luc can do it, so can I, right? Turns out that yes, I can, and it’s quite easy with vCenter Orchestrator also. If you haven’t already, check out these other posts on vCO: Mass Migrations Check...
View ArticleHP Technology @ Work 2011 Photos (Blade Watch)
I’ve uploaded Photos from HP Technology @ Work 2011, so you can see some of the demonstrations and the hardware that have been on display, the 3PAR solution looks very interesting and it was great to...
View ArticleVMTurbo's Free Performance and Efficiency Reporter (Kendrick Coleman)
VMTurbo announced a brand new FREE product to their lineup called Performance and Efficiency Reporter. I'm actually really excited about this release and can't wait to test it out for the Top Ten Free...
View ArticleOracle VM VirtualBox 4: An overview (vSphere-land)
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a hosted virtualization product along the lines of VMware Player, Workstation and Fusion and Microsoft Virtual PC. But VirtualBox has some unique features and use cases of...
View ArticleEMC Webcasts in May (VMware Tips)
Tomorrow starts another great series of VMware Focused webcasts from EMC. This month we cover everything from Virtualizing Oracle to Simplified Management, these weekly webcasts should not be missed....
View ArticleGood read: VMware vSphere 4.1 Networking Performance (Yellow Bricks)
I just noticed that a new whitepaper was released and as the scoopmeister Eric Sloof hasn’t blogged about it yet I figured, he’s probably sleeping, I would blog about it. I just read the paper and it...
View ArticleFree Transition to ESXi essential training (Virtualization Team)
As many organization today are in the process for moving from VMware ESX to to ESXi, it has been important to VMware to educate its partners & customers of the process and difference. For that...
View ArticleVMware vCloud Director demonstration in London (Blade Watch)
I saw this on twitter and it sound quite interesting: http://www.commensus.com/blog/Free-Breakfast-Seminar-And-Demonstration-On-VMware-vCloud-Director Join us next Thursday 12th May for an interactive...
View ArticleRed Hat to improve VM conversion tools (Server Virtualization Blog)
BOSTON — By nature, virtual machines (VMs) are movers and shakers. The tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 perform the essential tasks of virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions,...
View ArticlePowerCLI Poster 4.1.1 Print at Home/Office (Virtu-Al)
Yes that's right, another version of the PowerCLI Poster has been released, the thing about the previous version is that unless you managed to be at VMworld or a VMUG where these were handed out they...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the HP MicroServer (Blade Watch)
We bought using the company credit card a HP MicroServer from ServersPlus.com in a bundle which included a 4GB memory chip in the box as well as a USB stick with VMware ESXi 4.1 and a DVD writer drive...
View ArticleVMware Security Advisory:- VMSA-2011-0001.2 (PlanetVM)
Another release, again concerning third party packages to the Service console Synopsis: ESX third party updates for Service Console VMware packages glibc, sudo, and openldap Issue date: 2011-01-04...
View ArticleVMware Security Advisory:- VMSA-2011-0004.1 (PlanetVM)
Final one of the week, and this is a release of a potential DoS on certain Third party packages that are contained in both ESX and ESXi Synopsis: VMware ESX/ESXi SLPD denial of service vulnerability...
View ArticleOpen Source for Managing Cloud – Developer/Administrator Meetup May 18th...
Event: Open Source for Managing Cloud – Developer/Administrator Meetup May 18th Just a quick heads up on an upcoming event which was brought to my attention by Steve Jin. A meetup to be held in Palo...
View ArticleVDR plugin do not connect to VDR appliance (ESX Virtualization)
When you can’t connect to the VDR appliance through the plugin present in vCenter. I’m sure that you have already experienced this issue if you’re using VDR for smaller deployements. In fact without...
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