SSL certificates in VMware View environments (That's My View)
An SSL certificate could be described as a data container that includes the identity of a computer, the public key and the digital signature of the publisher of the certificate. Certificates are used...
View ArticleTechEd 2011 Live! Sunday (VM /ETC)
Join me as I wander around the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC), the site of Microsoft TechEd NA 2011, today. Even though the official conference does not start until tomorrow, there is plenty...
View ArticleCharlotte, North Carolina Regional Summit Photos (RTFM Education)
Last week I was in Charlotte, North Carolina – I took part in two ways – first speaking about the Future of VMware Site Recovery Manager, and second as the 4th person in a panel about the Cloud – along...
View ArticleVMware Palo Alto – The British Are Coming!!! (RTFM Education)
These shots were taken by Alan Renouf with my iPhone – the pool is the famous “Turtle Pool” sadly they turtles were in the water and not consolidating themselves as usual. [Note: For those initiated in...
View ArticleOn the Road with an IPAD (RTFM Education)
The last 10 days in the US has also been a bit of an experiment. I decide to take my IPAD out there instead of my Mac Book Pro. Well, actually that’s not strictly speaking true. I decided to take the...
View ArticleVisio in the Cloud? - Online Diagram Software (NTPRO.NL)
<img>While I was prepping the delivery of an upcoming VMware vCloud: Architecture in the VMware Cloud training course, I was searching for a diagramming tool, which could be used during the...
View ArticleCisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Tag Team (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
For this blog post, I collaborated with Dawn Theirl (@KokopeIIi on Twitter) who is a Network Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dawn performs a lot of hands-on work in her day to day role as a...
View ArticleHA and DRS Audit (Virtu-Al)
Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman are two of the biggest rockstars in the VMware Community, recently they wrote a fantastic book on HA and DRS, this can be downloaded for a fantastic price from here, if...
View ArticleTop 5 Planet V12N blog posts for week 19 (VMTN Blog)
In case you missed it, this week kicked off the public voting for sessions at VMworld 2011. I tell all my customers that haven’t been to VMworld in the past that they are really missing out on a great...
View ArticleVMware acquires Shavlik Technologies for vulnerability, configuration...
VMware adds to its portfolio of security services with Shavlik’s SaaS-based configuration and patch management software. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
View ArticleEMC World 2011 : AKA the last 3 months of my life (Nickapedia)
This post will cover so much of the last few months of my life that I don’t even know where to start. I am sitting here in the Las Vegas airport trying to remember all the details of how I got to this...
View ArticleNew vSphere 4.1 Report: Measuring SAN & NAS Performance (The Virtual Storage...
NetApp and VMware performance engineering have completed a new storage performance technical report, TR-3916. This new report provides the relative I/O performance available from SAN and NAS storage...
View ArticleSoftware Processes: Should You Pick One? (DoubleCloud)
While we in software industry debating which process to adopt for development, I found something in manufacturing very intriguing. On a recent article of Business Week The Case for Making It in the...
View ArticlePCoIP Recommended Practices for Networking Devices (myvirtualcloud.net)
Display protocols for VDI are still very much a subject to be discussed, and in most environments tuned. The out-of-the-box setting from ANY of vendor will work for many situations; however every...
View ArticleSysprep vs. Quickprep (That's My View)
In a VMware View environment you can either use Microsoft Sysprep or VMware Quickprep for the personalization of your Linked Clone desktop pools, while you can only use Sysprep for the personalization...
View ArticleSurprising results FC/NFS/iSCSI/FCoE… (Yellow Bricks)
I received a preliminary copy of a this report a couple of weeks ago, but since then nothing has changed. NetApp took the time to compare FC against, FCoE, iSCSI and NFS. Like most of us, probably, I...
View ArticleVeeam’s Next Big Thing Announcement (Virtualised Reality)
This morning at Tech-Ed North America Veeam have announced their next big thing, as reported at the beginning of May Veeam had put a ticker on their website to their next big thing. What may surprise...
View ArticleMy Next Gig: Western PA VMUG User Conference (RTFM Education)
Well, I’m just about over the worst of my jetlag. But already my thoughts are turning towards my next speaking engagement in the US. I will be speaking at the Western PA VMUG User Conference – on the...
View ArticleParallels releases server virtualization for Apple's Mac Mini (InfoWorld...
Parallels recently launched a new version of its popular Parallels server virtualization software for Apple hardware, but this latest update is designed to work with Mac Mini servers. With this...
View ArticleVMware Linked Clone IO Implications (Pivot Point)
A month ago I was in Palo Alto seeing old friends and talking VMware. I spent some time with an old friend in performance engineering talking about vSphere’s implementation of linked clones....
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