London VMUG (The Saffa Geek)
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend the London VMware User Group (VMUG). I’ve been unable to attend the past few due to work commitments but yesterdays theme of “Your Journey to the Cloud”...
View ArticleIs Gluster the answer to Scalable Cloud Storage and the Amazon Outage?...
Amazon failed because of simultaneous failure of its EBS in two Availability zones. If you were dependent on one of these (or mirrored across the two) you lost access to the filesystem from your...
View ArticleVeeam: How to change the Job notification settings with Powershell...
Today just a quick post about how Powershell can help you change the VM attribute option in Veeam Backup & Replication. Imaging that you have 20 backup jobs and you want or need to change the VM...
View ArticleImportant Patch Information for ESX/ESXi 3.5 hosts (VMware Support Insider)
This is a Critical Impact Message: To continue patching ESX/ESXi 3.5 hosts, a critical patch needs to be applied before June 1, 2011. This patch updates the secure key. Knowledgebase Article 1030001...
View ArticleMemory problems occur when a host uses more than 1016 dvPorts on a vDS...
A few people have been talking about this lately, and what it actually means. Within the vSphere 4.1 U1 release notes the following statement has been made: Memory problems occur when a host uses more...
View ArticleFree Virtualization Kit from VMware to download (ESX Virtualization)
There is a Free Virtualization KIT from VMware to download. You can go and download Free virtualization kit with vSphere product brochure, vSphere demo, What’s new Whitepapers and some other Whitepaper...
View ArticleSystem Manager 2.0 Public Beta Program (The Virtual Storage Guy)
I'm happy to share with you that we have opened a public beta program for the upcoming release of System Manager 2.0. SM2 is the next generation of our GUI management tool that enables storage...
View ArticleHyper-V Networking (VMwareInfo.com)
image If you are familiar with VMware’s style of networking, with their port groups, vSwitches and native teaming, then Hyper-V’s networking might be a little intimidating. Not that you can’t...
View ArticlePatch now or forever hold your peace! (vmwarewolf)
<img> <img>Anyone using ESX 3.5 listen up – this affects you!! I cannot stress this enough. If you do not apply this patch before June 1st 2011, you will be forever out of luck in applying...
View ArticleNetApp Customers Wanted for VMware SRM 5 Beta (The Virtual Storage Guy)
Run Vmware on NetApp? Do you have VMware Site Recovery manager deployed or are you considering it in the near future? Here's your chance to get early access by joining the VMware SRM 5 beta program!...
View ArticleInstalling VMware Site Recovery Manager : Please wait while setup is...
Please wait while setup is initializing... Does this screen look familiar? Double clicking the SRM installation executable and you will be presented with this familiar initialization bar. The issue...
View ArticleWhat is esxtop? (Petri IT Knowledgebase)
Esxtop is VMware's command-line tool to analyze performance. David Davis provides an overview and configuration options of this valuable tool for solving vSphere performance issues. Also included are...
View ArticleVMware Customers at EMC World 2011 (part 2) (VMwareTV)
VMware Customers at EMC World 2011 (part 2) VMware talks to customers about their virtualization journey at EMC World 2011. View VMware customer stories and case studies for virtualization, storage...
View ArticleVMware Customers at EMC World 2011 (part 3) (VMwareTV)
VMware Customers at EMC World 2011 (part 3) VMware talks to customers about their virtualization journey at EMC World 2011. View VMware customer stories and case studies for virtualization, storage...
View ArticleMy Lab and Home Equipment (VirtualVCP)
I’ve been getting quite a lot of emails asking what equipment I’m running in my home lab. Rather than having to reply to each and every email with the full inventory, I thought it would be a better...
View ArticleIomega StorCenter px6-300d Takes Center Stage at EMC World 2011 (NTPRO.NL)
Chad and Wade demonstrate the Iomega StorCenter px6-300d at EMC World during the Chad's World presentation. Chad and Wade launched 100 VMs from the px6-300d.
View ArticleVMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts...
Two of the mostly highly rated sessions presented at VMworld 2010 were TA8133: Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware & TA8623: Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge. I...
View ArticleMicrosoft TechEd NA 2011 Coverage (VM /ETC)
I’ll be covering Microsoft Teched North America 2011 from the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA next week. Look for a combination of live posts and session summaries. As in the past, I am...
View ArticleVMworld 2011 Session Voting – How about a vote? (Jase's Place)
This is a quick little post about the open voting that is currently going on for VMworld 2011 Sessions. I submitted 3 sessions during the call for papers for VMworld 2011. They are: Session Candidate...
View ArticleExpanded Multi-Hypervizor support from vKernel (ESX Virtualization)
VKernel announced Expanded support for Hyper-V for Capacity Analyzer and Chargeback. VKernel announced expanded support for Hyper-V recently. The company is planning to support other hypervizor’s...
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