Release: VMware Fusion 3.1.3 (The VMguy)
This release is ironic to me as I was about to tweet on Thursday that it would have been 6 months since the last Fusion update. Well I guess we didn’t make it. Fusion 3.1.3 is available for download...
View ArticleA Powerless Feature in VMware vSphere (DoubleCloud)
Distributed Power Management (DPM) is a powerful (powerless, really) feature can reduce host power consumption in a DRS cluster. It works in either manual mode or automatic mode only when DRS is...
View ArticleThe 2nd HandsonVirtualization.com Podcast with Special Guest Doug Hazelman of...
We have just finished recording, editing and uploading the second HandsonVirtualization.com podcast with special guest Doug Hazelman of Veeam. Expect more of the usual virtualisation news and...
View ArticleNetApp Ranked #6 on List of Great Places To Work in Europe (The Virtual...
Quick post, did you see NetApp ranked #6 on the 25 Best Multinational Workplaces in Europe? The Great Place To Work Institute (GPTW) specifically recognizes companies that seek to create great...
View ArticleScottish VMUG Meeting – Thursday, June 16 (RTFM Education)
Registrations for the Scottish VMUG have opened – and the event is on the 16th June. Once again the event is being held Glasgow at: Grand Central Hotel Glasgow 99 Gordon Street Victoria Suite Glasgow...
View ArticleToday Unidesk 1.3.1 released (Thinstall Guru)
Today, Unidesk released version 1.3.1 which includes the following enhancements: Improved Unidesk Management Console user interface performance Wizards that display multiple Application and OS layers,...
View ArticlevSoup and Tech Field Day #6 (vNinja.net)
vSoup Episode #10 is finally released, this time with Stuart Radnidge (blog) as our guest. This episode is a bit unusual, as we didn’t really have a set agenda before starting the recording, so we jump...
View ArticleVirtual Storage Tiering – The NetApp Way (Krystaltek)
Storage presents many and varied challenges. One such challenge that the industry has been dealing with recently is that if Auto-Tiering. The concept is relatively simple and helps customers address...
View ArticleThe future of cloud and NYSE Euronext's capital markets community platform...
NYSE Technologies (a unit of NYSE Euronext) announced their new "community platform" cloud computing service today, running on vSphere and vCloud Director from VMware. The target customers for the...
View ArticleTop 20 Articles for May 2011 (VMware Support Insider)
Here is our Top 20 KB list for May 2011. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Service Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Enhanced...
View ArticleNew Virtualization Security Products Available (Virtualization Practice)
There are several new products in the virtualization and cloud security spaces from PacketMotion, MicroSolved, and LynuxWorks. Each of these companies approach virtualization security from uniquely...
View ArticlevSphere Client 4.1 error… (A. Mikkelsen)
After I upgraded vSphere vCenter & Client to 4.1 258902, I been getting an error in the vSphere Client. A internal error occured in the vSphere Client. Details: Object reference not set to an...
View ArticleIncomplete Thought: The Curious Case Of the Carnival Cloud (Rational...
As a follow-on example to my blog titled The Curious Case of the MBO Cloud, in which I detailed the mad rush of companies to deploy something — anything — that looks like a “cloud” to achieve an...
View ArticleChads World Live (from EMC World 11) behind the scenes (Virtual Geek)
This was a ridiculous amount of fun… and a first – Chad’s World was live at EMC World 2011. This was a ridiculously stupid attempt – Wade and I are not good actors, and normally need many takes to do...
View ArticleVMware vCloud Director Benefits: What They Mean to Actual Virtual Environment...
By: Matt Sarrel I was browsing the web this morning and I came across a white paper, VMware vCloud Director: Build Secure Private Clouds to Deliver Infrastructure as a Service. Although this document...
View ArticleNetApp Releases VSC 2.1 vCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere (The Virtual...
NetApp has released the Virtual Storage Console 2.1 (VSC); our VMware vCenter plug-in. Behind the scenes the VSC is actually a framework from a number of sub-plug-ins (VSC, Rapid Cloning Utility and...
View ArticleSocialcast – a new acquisition by VMware (ESX Virtualization)
VMware acquired Socialcast – Collaborative and Microblogging platform for entreprise. The whole corporate activity stream can be managed by this platform which also ties into CRM and ERP systems....
View ArticleJoin VMware and iland Cloud for Tomorrow’s Webinar on Connecting vSphere to...
By: Matt Sarrel Tomorrow at 8:00am Pacific Time, iland cloud infrastructure will be hosting a live webinar to discuss how you can integrate your existing VMware vSphere or VMware vCloud Director...
View ArticleDell, SSD, CacheCade, and H700/H800 Controllers (The Lone Sysadmin)
Dell’s announcement last week that their rebranded LSI RAID controllers, the H700 & H800, now have the ability to use certain local SSD disks as a read cache tier. This is the “CacheCade”...
View ArticleNetApp Virtual Storage Console 2.1 released (Technodrone)
NetApp has quietly released an updated version of their Virtual Storage Console Software (you will need a NetApp Now account to access). Here is the announcement: The Virtual Storage Console software...
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