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Feb 10, 2012
Book review: Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (Gabes Virtual World - Gabrie van Zanten)
Last week I received a copy of Mike Laverick’s new book: “Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0″. Just in time actually since I was finishing a project with a customer where I implemented VMware vSphere 5 and VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0....
vSphere Replication is a replication engine that is part of SRM 5.0 and requires ESXi 5.0 and later, giving an alternative means of protecting and replicating virtual machines between sites. It is entirely managed within the SRM interface after initial...
Feb 9, 2012
VMware Labs presents its latest fling - Auto Deploy GUI (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof)
The Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. Some of the features provided...
Many of you probably know the PXE Manager fling which Max Daneri created… Max has been working on something really cool, a brand new fling: Auto Deploy GUI! I had the pleasure of test driving the GUI and providing early feedback to Max when he had...
Feb 9, 2012
VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast - Show Notes - #174 Business Critical Apps (VMTN Blog - VMTN Blog)
Hosts John Troyer Alex Maier ...
vNews is back for another month of informative cloud and virtualisation news podcast. For when you’re too busy read the news, press releases and blog posts. Just sit back in your commute or listen in the car and we tell you! ...
Feb 9, 2012
Storage DRS I/O load balancing and Array-based Auto-Tiering (frankdenneman.nl - Frank Denneman)
In its basic form Storage DRS can be used together with any array, however there are a few combinations of Storage array features and Storage DRS features that don’t mix easily. One of the most sought after question is can Storage DRS work with Array...
This morning I was on the phone with Ivan Pepelnjak (@ioshints) to decipher some of the paragraphs in one of his latest posts on Nicira Open vSwitch inside vSphere . He always has to bear with my stupid questions so I can see him (virtually), from...
Past two months I’ve received three calls from customers who’s vCenter suddenly stopped working because their SQL database had stopped because the logs had filled up. Turns out few people regularly check the status of their SQL database. VMware has...
Thank you William Lam @lamw !!!!!!! Due to William's How to Run Windows 8 on vSphere 5 (for reals) post I can now try out Windows 8 Developer Preview on my ESX boxes. This was resolved in patch ESXi500-201112001 - it just seems that no-one...
The WMI Class Win32_OperatingSystem Caption property returns the particular version of Windows, e.g.: ...
Alan Renouf – Sr. Technical Marketing Architect ...
So for a couple of days I have been re-building my lab. This has been overdue for a longtime and I finally had some time to get it done. The main purpose of re-building my lab is to make sure it follows the base reference architecture for vCloud as...
vSphere is pretty smart when it comes to managing physical memory and determining where best to place a virtual machine’s memory given how busy each NUMA node is in the physical server. If a VM is running in a busy NUMA node, the ESXi kernel will...
We are arranging a special preview of the next generation vSphere client to a limited audience at this year’s Partner Exchange in Las Vegas 02/13-16th. Selected attendees will be able to listen to VMware Product Managers discuss the future vision of...
The vCheck PowerCLI script from Alan Renouf is one of the most popular scripts for managing vSphere with PowerCLI. Its an amazing piece of work and I think has in its own small way helped the success of PowerCLI itself, by showing the kind of...
Feb 8, 2012
Thinking Out Loud: Is A dvFabric Closer Than We Think? (blog.scottlowe.org - Scott Lowe)
This is a short post, but one that I hope will stir some discussion. ...
Feb 8, 2012
vCheck 6.0 released (Virtu-Al.Net - Alan Renouf)
One of the most popular scripts on my site with 26,966 downloads of v5 has been the vCheck script, for those of you who haven’t seen this yet here is a quick summary of this script: ...
Feb 8, 2012
A week in virtualization (VMTN Blog - VMTN Blog)
Yesterday, we have introduced the VMware vCloud Integration Manager which will help service providers to accelerate delivery of cloud services. The Integration Manager will allow service providers to quickly create and deploy cloud service offerings,...
Feb 8, 2012
Video - Logon to VMware View Manager and navigation (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof)
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This one has been sitting with me for a while. It would be nice to hear your comments on this. The dvSwitch ( Distributed Virtual Switch ) – oh how it has changed our lives… Do you all remember the days when you had to manually add the all the...
Feb 8, 2012
Nokia Lumia 800 White (Unexpected - Tim Verbist)
Er viel enkele dagen geleden een persbericht in de mailbox: Nokia gaat de Lumia 800 ook in het wit te koop aanbieden. De verdere specificaties zijn identiek aan de andere kleuren. ...
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer The question of uniquely identifying virtual machines in either a vSphere or vCloud environment is one that comes up from time to time. I hear you asking, why is this import to me? One such reason is...
The demand for cloud has grown tremendously in the last few years, with an increasing number of enterprises expressing interest in and taking advantage of private, public and hybrid cloud models. Hybrid cloud models in particular have received much...
Feb 8, 2012
VMFS Extents - Are they bad, or simply misunderstood? (VMware vSphere Blog - VMware vSphere Blog)
If there is one thing that is sure to fire up a debate in VMware storage circles, it is whether or not a VMFS volume should make use of extents. I've watched many an email thread about this, and engaged in a few discussions myself. What I want to do in...
Feb 8, 2012
Distributed vSwitches and vCenter outage, what’s the deal? (Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping)
Recently my colleague Venky Deshpande released a whitepaper around VDS Best Practices . This white paper describes various architectural options when adopting a VDS only strategy. A strategy of which I can see the benefits. On Facebook multiple people...
Feb 8, 2012
How To: Disable warnings when SSH enabled vSphere ESXi 5.0 (Virtual-Blog.com - David Hill)
I previously wrote an article about how to enable SSH in vSphere 5.0 . A few people have asked how to disable the warnings that then appear on the hosts when you have this feature enabled. ...
Back in 2010 and I wrote a quick article on How To: Enable Remote Tech Support mode and SSH on ESXi 4.1 . A few people have posted comments asking if I could do the same now that vSphere/ESXi 5.0 has been released. The actual steps haven’t really...
Feb 8, 2012
Open Line opens new datacenter in south of Limburg (Gabes Virtual World - Gabrie van Zanten)
MAASTRICHT AIRPORT – Februari 2012 Open Line will open the doors to their new datacenter in Landgraaf (Limburg, the Netherlands) as an extension to their current Cloud solutions portfolio. ...
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Feb 2, 2012
Post PC era: Is 100% remote desktop virtualization even smart? - SearchCIO-Midmarket.com
Post PC era: Is 100% remote desktop virtualization even smart? SearchCIO-Midmarket.com Last August, I sat at VMworld 2012 with 19000 other IT literati and heard CEO Paul Maritz assure us that we were in the post PC era. But are we really? Certainly...
7 More Free Virtualization Tools Virtualization Review I have spoke about them at three VMworld shows and at TechMentor with Kendrick Coleman. Recently, we did a free tools update Webinar in which we talked about what's new in the free...
VMware Releases vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0 DABCC.com At VMworld Europe last October we announced three new suites for operations management, application management and IT business management. Together, these three management suites...
Jan 31, 2012
Showing off: What's hot or not - Channel Pro
Channel Pro Showing off: What's hot or not Channel Pro 2011 was a busy year for IT professionals, with many trade shows and conferences on the calendar; from SNW to VMworld via IP Expo and CeBIT, old and new events are vying for vendors and...
Veeam Software Reports Record-Breaking Year in 2011 MarketWatch (press release) Veeam Backup & Replication v6 won "Best of VMworld " 2011 for New Technology. This is the second year in a row that Veeam has won the Gold award in this...
Feb 3, 2012
What You Missed at Monki Gras - ReadWriteWeb
What You Missed at Monki Gras ReadWriteWeb Things like VMworld or the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) have a very button-down feel about them, and tend to be highly skewed towards sponsor-driven content. Read: sponsors get speaking slots, and...
ATMs go high-tech to fight crime ATM marketplace.com (press release) Currently Diebold Inc. is working on a machine (which the company debuted at VMWorld in September 2011) that uses cloud computing to store information remotely, reducing the risk of...
Jan 17, 2012
DynamicOps Reports Record 300% Increase in Customer Adoption in 2011; Tripled ... - MarketWatch (press release)
DynamicOps Reports Record 300% Increase in Customer Adoption in 2011; Tripled ... MarketWatch (press release) DynamicOps won "Best of VMworld 2011 Gold Award for Private Cloud Computing" and the "UP 2011 Overall Most Innovative Cloud...
Jan 17, 2012
Skytap Cloud Recognized as 2011 Products of the Year Winner - MarketWatch (press release)
Skytap Cloud Recognized as 2011 Products of the Year Winner MarketWatch (press release) This recognition comes on the heels of a breakthrough year for Skytap, as the company accumulated several award wins in 2011, including being selected as a...
Feb 7, 2012
Desktop VDI May Be Ready for Prime Time but Is the Network? - SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) Desktop VDI May Be Ready for Prime Time but Is the Network? SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) Latency is the biggest concern among networking pros considering a VDI deployment, according to an informal survey of...
