VMware APIs & SDKs at VMware Communities Roundtable (DoubleCloud)
My colleague John Troyer (@jtroyer), who hosts VMware Communities Roundtable, has posted an interview with Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf) and me about our thoughts on VMware SDKs, APIs, and CLIs on May 18....
View ArticleNew Whitepaper: VMware ESXi 4.1 Operations Guide (Yellow Bricks)
As part of my new role within VMware Technical Marketing I am responsible for creating collateral. Most of you have seen the series of articles about the operational differences between ESX and ESXi....
View ArticleDVS Port Group consideration (vroem.co.za)
I was involved in a design that had 2 sites, active/active with SRM failover between each site. Thus each site can failover to the other site. What make the networking easy was that we had strech...
View ArticleCo-scheduling Visualized (VMware Virtualization Evangelist)
I stumbled onto this time lapse video of 51 airplanes taking off (and others taxiing) at Boston’s Logan International Airport. One thought immediately popped into my mind: co-scheduling, which is a...
View ArticlePowerCLI: Lesson #7 < I’m back in business (Virtualize Planet)
Ok I have to make my apologies about this section, it’s been sometime that I have continued these PowerShell Lessons and the reason for that was I was waiting to get my hands on a new PowerCLI book....
View ArticleA Quicksilver Primer (blog.scottlowe.org)
Having just recently revisited the reasons why I use Quicksilver versus any number of similar applications, I thought I might help answer a few questions about this somewhat-enigmatic Mac...
View ArticleTechnical White Paper: VMware ESXi 4.1 Operations Guide (vReality)
VMware has published a new technical white paper “VMware ESXi 4.1 Operations Guide”. This new white paper is very much recommended read for any VMware admin as it describes ESXi deployment, management...
View ArticleAn Inside Look into the PCoIP® Protocol and Zero Clients (That's My View)
There is a VMUG webcast coming up which sounds very interesting. An Inside Look into the PCoIP® Protocol and Zero Clients Presented by Ziad Lammam, Teradici Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Times: 12:00...
View ArticleMAFATE Trekking (ESX Virtualization)
We went for a few days to do some trekking to MAFATE – Reunion Island. This post is special. As you might noticed, I live in Reunion Island (Fr) – French Overseas Department – which is located about 10...
View ArticleTechnical White Paper: Migrating to VMware ESXi (vReality)
In addition to “VMware ESXi 4.1 Operations Guide” VMware published second technical white paper titled “Migrating to VMware ESXi”. With this new white paper VMware also published two helpful papers...
View ArticleTop 5 Planet V12N blog posts for week 20 (VMTN Blog)
Another acquisition was announced this week, VMware has picked up the company Shavlik and plans to continue to utilize their technology in the SMB space. An even bigger announcement was the official...
View ArticleAdd Exchange Unified Messaging to your virtual environment...
Microsoft has made massive strides with regard to virtualizing Exchange. However, for those organizations that wanted to take full advantage of virtualization platforms as well as all of Exchange’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft TechEd 2011: Virtualization: State of the Union...
Much of TechEd 2011 carried cloud and virtualization overtones. In one session, Microsoft consolidated their efforts into one presentation and they ran the gamut! If you don’t have time to watch the...
View ArticleInterview with VMware CIO Mark Egan: Acquisitions, apps and cloud (VMware...
In this episode of This Week in Virtualization, VMware CIO Mark Egan talks cloud and Microsoft; plus, a preview of Citrix Synergy 2011 and news from Microsoft TechEd. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add...
View ArticleVMware releases Horizon App Manager. Here's our full analysis (Brian Madden...
Last week VMware officially launched VMware Horizon App Manager, the first phase of their "Horizon" project which extends on-premise user identities and app provisioning into cloud and SaaS apps. This...
View ArticleVMware SRM & HP P4000 VSA Intricacies (ESX Virtualization)
VMware SRM & HP P4000 VSA Intricacies This is a guest post by Andy Grant. I have a bad habit of standing up a solution in my home lab, only to tear it down shortly afterwards to play with something...
View ArticleIT Automation, What Does It Mean To You? (DoubleCloud)
Weeks ago I had a great conversation with Vanessa Alvarez (@VanessaAlvarez1) who is an analyst with Forrest Research. Among other topics, we discussed datacenter automation because we’re both...
View ArticleThe launch of VMware Press (Think©Loud)
Microsoft has it, Cisco has it, so it’s not a surprise that VMware launched it’s own VMware Press. And if I may say so : it fills a gap. The [...]
View ArticleWhere it all began, 1994 (Musings of Rodos)
Just had to share the crazy stuff I just found. Here is the text of a web page I created in 1994 when I was first starting to use this thing called the Internet. Its a scream! Remember when you cared...
View ArticleTakeDownCon Dallas: Virtualization Security is NOT just about the Virtual...
If there was any take-a-way from TakeDownCon related to virtualization, it was that the virtualization host is not the primary attack point but all the ancillary systems that touch it. These systems...
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