Rumors on vSphere 5 (VMGuru.nl)
The release of VMware vSphere 5.0 is almost visible on the horizon now. In the online communities and when talking with colleagues the term ESXi 5 and/or vSphere 5 keep coming up. The general...
View ArticleMSTechEd 2011 Live! Monday (VM /ETC)
Tune in for Monday live coverage from TechEd 2011 in Atlanta, GA MSTechEd 2011 Monday Live! If you would prefer to watch in a pop up window Click Here addthis_url =...
View ArticleCritical Patch Information for ESX/ESXi 3.5 Hosts – Apply before June 1 2011...
For anyone out there still using ESX(i) 3.5 you will need to apply a specific patch to your hosts to be able to continue updating these after June 2011. This patch updates a secure key which will...
View ArticleVMworld Public Voting (Frank Denneman)
VMworld 2011 session voting opened a week ago and there a still a few days left to cast your vote. About 300 in-depth sessions will be presented at VMworld this year and this year two sessions are...
View ArticleGestalt Tech Field Day – Boston 6/10 June (RTFM Education)
It’s with great pleasure that I’ve been invited to my first ever Gestalt Tech Field Day. It’s very gratifying to taking my place amongst other luminaries in the virtualization community… What’s also...
View ArticleStarWind Software Presents Free Version of iSCSI SAN Solution (NTPRO.NL)
StarWind Free iSCSI SAN provides an Enterprise Feature set to Evaluate the Benefits of SAN’s, Virtualization and fast Disk-to-Disk Backup. StarWind has announced the release of Free iSCSI SAN software...
View ArticleLiving the dream (Arnim van Lieshout)
Who would’ve thought that 2011 would become such a great year for me? Earlier this year a dream came true with the release of our PowerCLI book on March 28th. Now, only 2 months after, another dream is...
View ArticleTechnology Short Take #12: Networking Edition (blog.scottlowe.org)
This is the Networking Edition of Technology Short Take #12, in which I attempt (perhaps unsuccessfully?) to catch up on my list of links, articles, and blog posts on networking.This article was...
View ArticleNew Articles Published for Week Ending 5/14/11 (VMware Knowledge Base Weekly...
VMware ACE Applying a policy update package in ACE fails with the error: Setup has detected that this ACE package requires a newer version of VMware Workstation (1038992) Date Published: 5/9/2011...
View ArticleTech Field Day #6 – Delegate I Am (vNinja.net)
A while ago I got a surprising email, stating the following: You could consider this a sincere compliment from the Gestalt IT community as your name was suggested and we think you are the kind of...
View ArticleProject Lightning - No Astraphobia here.. (blog.virtualtacit.com)
EMC never disappoints. Just when I think I have their strategy pinned, its trajectory changes. Take...
View ArticleTerminal Server license server - NOT ACTIVATED! (VMwareInfo.com)
Written by Aaron Silber: Just ran into an issue where all of a sudden people could not log into the TS Servers any more. When I looked at the license server, I noticed that all of a sudden my TS...
View ArticlePaper: Measuring VMware vSphere 4.1 Storage Performance (virtualization.info)
NetApp has released a new whitepaper titled: VMware vSphere 4.1 Storage Performance: Measuring FCoE, FC, iSCSI, and NFS Protocols. The Paper which contains 25 pages covers the relative I/O performance...
View ArticleVMware Buys Shavlik (Virtualization Practice)
VMware has acquired one more company: Shavlik. This acquisition did not come as much of a surprise to me but is an interesting purchase for VMware. There are quite a few Security as a Service vendors...
View ArticleHA / DRS Deepdive…. euuh I mean the audit (Yellow Bricks)
A couple of weeks ago Alan Renouf contacted me and asked me if it was okay to turn some of our best practices mentioned in the book into PowerCLI code. I thought about it for 0.00001 seconds and...
View ArticleMigrating distributed vSwitch to new vCenter (Gabe's Virtual World)
Customer called me to ask how they could easily migrate their existing vCenter to a new vCenter including all distributed vSwitches. They were moving from vCenter 4.0 to vCenter 4.1 and at the same...
View ArticleVeeam Gives CBT Ability to Hyper-V (Kendrick Coleman)
There's a fun game some of us in twitterland play called "Where in the world is Doug Hazelman" (sung to the tune of Carmen Sandiego of course!). Doug is the world-wide senior director of product...
View ArticleVMware acquires ANOTHER management company, Shavlik (Server Virtualization Blog)
VMware’s acquisition spree continues today with Shavlik Technologies. Shavlik is VMware’s partner in VMware Go, a service designed to help SMBs deploy and manage virtualization more quickly and easily....
View ArticleAvailable for Download – Damn Small Linux on vCloud OVF (NTPRO.NL)
<img>I’ve created an OVF and OVA version of the highly popular Damn Small Linux distribution. Normally you run this OS which is only 50MBs in disk size from an ISO or pen drive but I’ve seen more...
View ArticleCan Veeam do for Hyper-V what Microsoft Can’t? (VMware Videos)
In my personal opinion, Microsoft has done a poor job of marketing what Hyper-V can do and a poor job of releasing new enhancements. Their new features and releases come slower than VMware (and they...
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