Making the Case for Virtual Desktops at Tyler ISD (VMware End User Computing)
By John Orbaugh; Director of Technology Services,Tyler Independent School District My name is John Orbaugh and I’m the Technology Director for the Tyler Independent School District in Tyler, Texas....
View ArticleOptimize Your VMware Capacity Planning Report (Virtualization Team)
I have noticed many partners lately complaining about their Capacity Planning report having below expected VM per server Density, & has normally been granted access to their Capacity Planning...
View ArticleThe New Way to Work… Part 2 (VMware End User Computing)
In April I introduced VMware’s acquisition of SlideRocket with a blog entry entitled, “The New Way to Work – End-User Computing in the Post-PC Era”. Today I am happy to announce the next step in this...
View ArticleUsing VMware HA, DRS and vMotion with Exchange 2010 DAGs (Business Critical...
The wave of VMware customers looking to virtualize Exchange 2010 on vSphere continues to accelerate. While there have been customers who have chosen not to virtualize the DAG nodes, the reasons were...
View ArticleLBT (Load Based Teaming) explained (Part 3/3) (VMware Networking Blog)
By Hugo Strydom, Management Consultant, VMware Professional Services In this part we will look at some scenarios and what will happen when a pNIC is saturated. Scenario 1: ESX host with 2x 1Gb pNIC's...
View ArticleInstalling and configuring VMware ESXi (VMware tips and tricks)
Learn how to install and configure VMware's small footprint hypervisor, VMware ESXi, now available for free. Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
View ArticleKudos to the Winners of the 2011 NetApp Innovation Awards! (The Virtual...
Each year we sponsor the NetApp Innovation Awards for customers who find new ways to utilize NetApp technology in order to benefit their business. This year we received more than 100 submissions for...
View ArticleIT Automation: A Cognitive Perspective (DoubleCloud)
Recently I stumbled at a book Things That Make Us Smart by one of my favorite authors Donald Norman. In the book, he shared many insights on the complex human machine interactions, “arguing for the...
View ArticleThe consumerization of IT: Why most vendors get it wrong, and why it's a real...
A lot of people are talking about the "consumerization of IT" these days. Citrix made it one of the core themes of their Synergy 2011 conference last week, and Gartner predicted that consumerization of...
View ArticleVirtensys Puts on a Show! (vDestination)
Virtensys recently visited the Phoenix ATNG group and really put on a show of their virtual I/O solution that just makes sense. I was lucky enough to be invited to this event thanks to Matt Mancini,...
View ArticleEnabling Experimental Support for OpenLDAP, PostgreSQL, and MySQL in VMware...
This technical note describes how to enable experimental support for OpenLDAP, PostgreSQL and MySQL if you want to use them with VMware vCenter Orchestrator. Orchestrator requires a working LDAP server...
View ArticleVirtualization Management Socket-Based Pricing Versus Per-VM Pricing (VMBlog)
Software licensing has really started to get "tricky" what with the introduction and growing popularity of server virtualization. Gone are the days... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>
View ArticleThe Italian Elections and the Case for Cloudburst (IT 2.0)
A few days ago we had a big election day in Italy for renewing a good part of the public local administration. For and in itself this wasn’t a big deal and something that wouldn’t have generated a lot...
View ArticleEMC & VMware provide 1st Financial Cloud: NYSE Technologies (Virtualization...
NYSE Technologies is providing the very first special purpose financial cloud based on VMware and EMC technology to provide new business models where NYSE Technologies provides the plumbing for global...
View ArticleAvoiding the VMware Compliance Checker Headache – PowerCLI to the rescue....
Avoiding the VMware Compliance Checker Headache – PowerCLI to the rescue. This is a guest post by Andy Grant. In Vladan’s post Free compilance checker for VMware vSphere he introduced one of VMware’s...
View ArticleVMware has released the vCloud Architecture Toolkit (NTPRO.NL)
VMware has successfully implemented dozens of cloud infrastructures. To help pass along the experience they have accumulated through these deployments, they have assembled a set of documents you may...
View ArticleEphemeral ports? (Yellow Bricks)
A couple of days ago one of my colleagues released an article about Ephemeral Ports. The article explains about how Ephemeral ports could be used as a “backup” when vCenter is down. The summary of the...
View ArticleVideo - Monitoring CPU Metrics in vSphere (NTPRO.NL)
In this demo from TrainSignal's vSphere Performance Monitoring course, David Davis will show you how to monitor CPU metrics in vSphere.
View ArticleWin a signed copy of “Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director” (Yellow...
Book #24, As you hopefully know about a month ago my latest publication was released titled “Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director“. When I was visiting Palo Alto a week ago I met up with one of...
View ArticleVMware vCenter ADM 6.2 is GA (VMware Virtualization Management Blog)
VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager (ADM) 6.2 is now GA. vCenter ADM 6.2 adds the following new capabilities besides numerous routine fixes: Ability to authorize and authenticate Active...
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