New Website Launched! - vBeers where vGeeks Come to Meet (NTPRO.NL)
Simon Long and Simon Seagrave have launched a new website today. The website is called vBeers and was created to provide an opportunity for virtualization enthusiasts and professionals to meet and...
View ArticleCitrix announces IaaS Project Olympus built on OpenStack (Virtualization...
One of the most intriguing names that has hitherto been at the periphery of the OpenStack initiative is Citrix. Up until last week, Citrix's contribution was to ensure OpenStack ran on XenServer....
View ArticlevBeers.Org website launched (The Saffa Geek)
As I’ve mentioned many times on this blog the Virtualisation fraternity have a monthly meet up on the first Thursday of every month and after a VMUG to have a vBeers meet up. Simon Long and Simon...
View ArticlevBeers.org–where the Virtualisation community gets real ! (J.F.V.I.)
Regular tweetups amongst friends in the twitter community are not exactly new , but Simon Long and Simon Seagrave started to give the ones in the virtualisation community a name – vBeers ! This was...
View ArticleCitrix Synergy 2011 - Day 2 Keynote Highlights (VMBlog)
Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix, Michael Mestrovich, Senior Technology Officer for Innovation for the Defense Intelligence Agency and Allan Leinwand, CTO Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleThe Secret of Ephemeral Port Groups (VCritical)
When using the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch, ephemeral port groups offer a capability not found in the other two binding options.
View ArticleThe State Of the Art In Cloud Security… (Rational Survivability)
…is still firewalls and SSL. Cloud: The “revenge of (overlay) VPN and PKI” /Sad Panda
View ArticleVMware Site Recovery Manager - Error while executing 'DiscoverLuns' command....
During a VMware Site Recovery Manager implementation, I ran into this pesky error. Not really an SRM error specifically (more of an issue with the SRA) but a show stopper non the less for SRM....
View ArticleNew Publication - Exertion-based Billing for Cloud Storage Access (NTPRO.NL)
Charging for cloud storage must account for two costs: the cost of the capacity used and the cost of access to that capacity. For the cost of access, current systems focus on the work requested, such...
View ArticleResolution Path Mind Maps - How To (VMware KBTV)
We've been busy here in the Knowledge Management Team at VMware producing more Mind Maps, which compliment our Resolution Path KB articles. These are great tools for troubleshooting a wide range of...
View ArticleThis week in Virtualization Podcast (Virtualization Information)
I participated in the This week in Virtualization 5/24/11 podcast discussing XenServer 6 beta, XenDesktop and other virtualization Topics. Thanks Colin Steele for inviting me to join in the fun. This...
View ArticleMy homelab – The Network design with Cisco SG 300 – a Layer 3 switch for...
Lately I was working on the redesign of my lab at home and I purchased a Cisco L3 capable switch. In my quest for a VMware vSphere homelab, I recently purchased my first Cisco switch. You could see it...
View ArticlePaper: Windows 7 IOPS for VDI: Deep Dive (virtualization.info)
Atlantis Computing virtualization consultant Jim Moyle released a white paper (28 pages) on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Input/Output operations per second (IOPS) for Windows 7 deployments....
View ArticleDisk selection in ESXi kickstart (Think©Loud)
Automated installation is the way to deploy your ESXi configuration to your servers. After all it’s all about automating your IT operations and making your life easier. Nobody likes to [...]
View ArticleTech: How to defrag a Hyper-V R2 Cluster Shared Volume (virtualization.info)
Hans Vredevoort, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional with the expertise Clustering wrote an article about fragmentation of a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). Cluster Shared Volumes is an enhancement,...
View ArticleVPLEX Geo / GoogleMaps Mashup : Higher Quality Video (Nickapedia)
My previous post showing the VPLEX Geo / GoogleMaps mashup was an early version and low quality. I created this one to better show the UI and recorded it at 60FPS using my HD camera. thanks, .nick...
View ArticleCisco’s UCS Exit Strategy? (Virtual Insanity)
Cisco decided to shut down Flip last month. Why? Because it’s a low margin business that Cisco has no business owning. There is talk about killing Linksys, or spinning it out. Why? Low margins and it...
View ArticleThe PC Pepsi Challenge (VMware End User Computing)
In 1975 Pepsi launched the Pepsi Challenge. I know this because my dad worked for Pepsi and we had to drink more than our fair share of the stuff on a daily basis. We were living in the Philippines...
View ArticleCisco UCSone persons take 2 years in (Virtual Geek)
It’s been an interesting 2 years, and a milestone for many – we’re coming up on the 2 year anniversary of the Cisco UCS FCS, which will formally be on June the 20th. I remember it like it was...
View ArticleIntroducing NetApp SnapProtect Backup (The Virtual Storage Guy)
Over the past 5 years, server virtualization has changed the data center forever and these changes have had a far-reaching impact on data center architectures and operations. One of the areas often...
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