May 22, 2012
VMware to acquire layering technology company Wanova
That's My View
(Christoph Harding
)
VMware Welcomes Wanova to the EUC Family
Office of the CTO Blogs
(Steve Herrod & Team
)
Gluecon keynotes
View Yonder (Steve Chambers)
VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study Technical Paper available
Frank Denneman
(frankdenneman.nl
)
Invitation to Dell/Sanity Virtualization Seminar
VMware Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche)
EMC and VMware Partner to Develop New Storage Analytics Suite Powered by vCenter Operations
VMware Global Alliances Blog
(VMware Alliances Team
)
vSphere Metro Storage Cluster white paper released!
Announcing VCE's Vblock Data Protection
blog.aarondelp.com (Aaron Delp)
by noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) at May 22, 2012 03:57 PM
Increase performance and scalability of existing applications using SQLFire
VMware vFabric Blog
(VMware vFabric Team
)
Hyperic Upgrades Management of Apache Tomcat
VMware vFabric Blog
(VMware vFabric Team
)
NFS Block Sizes, Transfer Sizes & Locking
vSphere Advanced Network Troubleshooting – DVPort Naming Conflicts [Video]
Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)
vShield Edge Version Discovery with PowerCLI
geek after five (Jake Robinson)
Steve Herrod keynote at last Italian VMUG, the complete Video
vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)
Yeah, I know, our meeting was on 4th of April, almost two months ago…
We have some problems and lack of free time coding and uploading the video to youtube, also PJ recorded it all in HD, and “thanks” to Italian internet connection we had to upload those huge amount of data at…
Typical VXLAN Use Case
IT 2.0
(Massimo Re Ferre
)
One of the problems VXLAN is supposed to solve is the possibility to decouple (and abstract) the compute capacity from the underling network configuration. A lot of people whose background is solely in the compute space now know that there is a solution but don’t really get why there is a problem…
Mandarin Articles introduced to the Knowledge Base
Scheduled Maintenance – May 25, 2012
VMware View 5.1 Tech Preview - A deeper look at the View Composer API for Array Integration
VMware KBTV (VMware Knowledge Base Videos)
Liquidware enhance ProfileUnity with FlexApp: User Installed Apps – What’s in a name?
vKernel – Quest updates vOps Server Standard to version 5.0
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
Cisco UCS and Default Authentication Domains
Enterprise Admins (Brian Wuchner)
New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/19/12
VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest
The Magic of CSS–Customizing Citrix Web Interface
VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)
Another great Tutorial post from Sam Jacobs! Class is in session…
A poster in the Web Interface forum (http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1627343#1627343) asked how to make the following modifications to the Web Interface logon page:
- Change the page background color,
- Expand the…
by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at May 22, 2012 01:32 PM
EMC acquires Syncplicity
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
VKernel white papers
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)
Other recent whitepapers could be added to the previous list (Whitepaper di VKernel utili per il vDesign):
- Requirements for Capacity Management in Virtual Environments
Data centers with virtualized environments have a real need for effective capacity management. This white paper discusses why vm…
VMware vSphere 5 - Optimize and Scale is ready for scheduling
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
vSphere IP Pool and VMA etc.
Virtual Wood Blog (Paul Wood)
vExpert Spotlight: Chris Kranz
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
An introduction to Storage DRS
Yellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
)
Today someone asked for a Storage DRS intro, I wrote one for our book a year ago and figured I would share it with the world. I still feel that Storage DRS is one of the coolest features in vSphere 5.0 and I think that everyone should be using this! I know there are some caveats (1, 2) when you are…
New VMware View 5.1 Evaluators Guide Available
That's My View
(Christoph Harding
)
Another VMware Cloud: Siemens IT Solutions and Services Runs Their Private Cloud on VMware
VMware vCloud Blog
(vCloud Team
)
Effective Strategies to Simplify
DoubleCloud
(Steve Jin
)
Tighter Integration between EMC VNX Storage and VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Announced Today
EMC World 2012 – Day 1
New Features of Persona Management in VMware View 5.1
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
May 21, 2012
Hot Off the ‘Virtual’ Press - VMware Insights Magazine - Issue 2
VMware for Small-Medium Business
(VMware SMB Team
)
How To Install Desktop Director on Citrix XenApp 6.5 Servers
Come see VCE's CRAZY Mobility Demo at EMC World!
blog.aarondelp.com (Aaron Delp)
by noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) at May 21, 2012 10:19 PM
vCenter Operations Manager for View
VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)
VMware is rapidly expanding the possibilities of their new management suite VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCops) with their recent release of VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View. This new addition provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of a VMware View…
Drobo, Veeam and the SMB
VDI Cloud (Arjan Timmerman)
VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast - Show Notes #188 - SAP, vFabric Application Director
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
Release: Oracle VM Server for x86 3.1
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
ESXi 5 on an Apple Mac Mini
vSamurai (Christopher Wells)
I have been looking to refresh my home lab environment for some time now. Since I moved into a rental townhouse upon my move to NC, I have had power issues when my home lab is 100% powered-on. A couple of times, I have even tripped the breaker entirely. Between my desktop machine, (2) HP Proliant…
Comparing virtual and non-virtual environments
[US] #vBrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 9
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
vChat – Episode 27 – Live from the Charlotte VMware User Group
VMware Videos (David Davis)
VMAX 40K+Vblock = ((Powerful, Trusted, Smart) ^ More) – Risk
Virtualization for Service Providers (Jeremiah Dooley)
Chad Sakac and Chuck Hollis have done a fantastic job of introducing the world to the VMAX 40K in all it’s peerless splendor, but of course there’s one more question being asked: when will we get to see this behemoth, along with the 5876 Enginuity code at the storage core of [...]
VMware is Hiring - Munich, Germany
VMware Careers YouTube
(Life and Jobs at VMware
)
|
VMware is hiring! In diesem YouTube video sehen Sie Mitarbeiter unseres VMware Managementteams in unserem münchner Büro und wie sie unsere Kultur und VMware als Arbeitgeber beschreiben. Informieren Sie sich über unsere Vakanzen in Deutschland: bit.ly Unsere… |
VMware shows marketing muscles against Microsoft
UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)
Top storage sessions at HP Discover
Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)
(Click on the image to go to the HP Discover event page)
HP Discover is creeping up on me quickly and I am definitely excited about it. For those of you coming, I wanted to give you my pick for the top storage sessions to consider. Now mind you, I'm sure…
VMware shows View 5.1 performance improvements
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
Oracle ups server virtualization ante with Oracle VM 3.1
InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)
VCAP5-DCD study guides
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)
The official VCAP5-DCD exam has been released some days ago and there is the relative web page with several information about it and, of course, the blueprint.
And also there are other site with useful study guides and notes:
Read more on VCAP5-DCD study guides…
Holy EMC Mega Launch II Batman!
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
Isilon X400 and Mavericks
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
VNX Inyo is going to blow some minds.
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
Stretched vSphere Clusters? DR with SRM? Why not BOTH?
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
VMAX 40K+5876 = (Powerful, Trusted, Smart) ^ More
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
DRS clusters and allocating reserved memory
Frank Denneman
(frankdenneman.nl
)
New Cloudcast (.NET) - PaaS Meets Data Gravity
blog.aarondelp.com (Aaron Delp)
by noreply@blogger.com (Aaron Delp) at May 21, 2012 02:04 PM
Convert a virtual disk from IDE to SCSI
vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)
We recently deployed a new customer in our datacenter, who was migrating his servers from an on-premise Hyper-V cluster towards our VMware vCloud. Their sysadmins brought us their VM already converted in VMware format, so we started immediately to import them in our vSphere 5…
Replace SSL Cert Emulex OCM for VMware with a signed one.
Zsoldier's Tech Blog (Chris Nakagaki)
Summary:
Replace default OCM cert w/ one that is CA signed. Click below to continue.
PreReqs:
- Windows Server (VM Preferred) <-- OCM uses windows
- Emulex OCM for…
by Chris Nakagaki (noreply@blogger.com) at May 21, 2012 02:49 PM
A closer look at the View Composer API for Array Integration [incl. Video]
CloudOne Hosts IBM Rational Tools in the Cloud
VMware Global Alliances Blog
(VMware Alliances Team
)
VMware View 5.1 Tech Preview - A deeper look at the View Composer API for Array Integration (VCAI)
VMware KB TV
(How-to Videos
)
|
blogs.vmware.com - In this video you will get a demonstration of the View Composer API for Array Integration in VMware View 5.1 which is currently in a "Tech Preview" state. "Tech Preview" implies… |
How to Deploy an OVF/OVA in the ESXi Shell
virtuallyGhetto (William Lam)
Reining The Risks of Consumerization
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
Heading for Gluecon 2012
View Yonder (Steve Chambers)
Random ESXi LUN loss in an 8Gb FC Brocade infrastructure
Virtual Kenneth
(Kenneth van Ditmarsch
)
PowerCLI: Copy Datastore Items
ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)
Next Generation Thin Clients – Cheaper, Faster, Better
The cost of a VDI desktop dropped again last week with the release of a new low-cost thin clients that increasingly blur the boundaries between the cost of physical and virtual desktops, creating new opportunities for growth in a market segment that is struggling to reach more than 5% of enterprise…
Install app on Citrix server - change user
Virtual Infrastructure Tips (Jakob Fabritius N¿rregaard)
When installing applications on a Citrix server in production, you need to change to install mode. After installation the mode has to be changed back to 'execute'.
From CMD prompt:
Install mode:
change user /install
Execute mode:
change…
by Jakob Fabritius Nørregaard (noreply@blogger.com) at May 21, 2012 12:55 PM
14 Common Virtualization Mistakes – And How To Avoid Them
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
HA split brain, which VM prevails?
VCAP5-DCD - registration is now open!
VMware Training and Certification (Scott Vessey)
by noreply@blogger.com (Scott Vessey) at May 21, 2012 09:09 AM
May 20, 2012
Spring (May) 2012 StorageIO news letter
StorageIO Blog (Greg Schulz)
EMCs first Ivy Bridge based storage array!
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
Updated: What's the deal with EMC CX arrays not supporting VAAI with vSphere 5.0?
VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)
by Andreas Peetz (noreply@blogger.com) at May 20, 2012 05:46 PM
Various cloud, virtualization, server, storage I/O poll’s
StorageIO Blog (Greg Schulz)
Top Free Courses from VMware Education
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
Weekly Twitter Updates
Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)
RT @SFoskett Tonight's big-screen home movie: The Princess Bride http://t.co/p3e87GGh <-Inconceivable! # RT @vinf_net Having a look at @ZertoCorp with vCD .. nice solution <- Agreed. I participated in the beta program. # Congrats to Steve Ballmer for making it to #1 on Forbes CEO list.…
May 19, 2012
[APAC] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP5-DCD Wrap-Up
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
Link Dump 5/19/12
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
Registration is now open for the VCAP5-DCD Exam
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
vCenter Operations for View now available
vmwmanagement
(Brad Desilets
)
Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 20
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
VCAP5-DCA: Objective 4.2
The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)
Vblock gravity: the more you converge, the bigger the benefit
View Yonder (Steve Chambers)
VCAP5-DCA: Objective 4.1
The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)
The Dream of a self-healing Datacenter: Integrate vCenter Operations (vCOPS) with Orchestrator
vcoportal (Joerg Lew)
VCAP5-DCA: Objective 9.2
The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)
Session hijacking (or sidejacking) – Whitepaper by Thawte
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
Cloud computing gets a lot more personal
VMwire (Hugo Phan)
Attaching an unreplicated VMDK after SRM failover using scripts
VCAP5-DCD Certification
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)
Finally, after the beta period and a long waiting (first time that beta results were out before the exam goes live), the VCAP5-DCD exam is now available. All information are on the official web page.
Read more on VCAP5-DCD Certification…
So I submitted a session for VMworld
Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)
Open Source VI Java API 5.0.1 Released
DoubleCloud
(Steve Jin
)
May 18, 2012
Synology DSM 4.0 Supports VAAI in vSphere 5 For Home Labs
Home Labbers can rejoice! Have you ever wanted a home lab where you had VAAI capabilities with iSCSI on vSphere? Synology has released a new software version for their NAS boxes DSM 4.0. They don't really point it out anywhere on their main site, but if you read the release notes, it's there. Here's…
by kendrickcoleman@gmail.com (Kendrick Coleman) at May 18, 2012 11:26 PM
Folder by Path
LucD notes (Luc Dekens)
Configuring EMC Isilon SmartConnect – Part II: SmartConnect Advanced
Jase's Place (Jase McCarty)
View 5.1 Performance
VROOM!
(VMware Performance
)
Time Reporting with Outlook and Powershell
geek after five (Jake Robinson)
DC vBeers – May 23, 2012
VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)
Defending the indefensible
Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)
Resize & Hot-Add/Extend Virtual Machine Disks using vCloud API
Dedup for your Dedup with #Veeam and #StarWind
mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)
Cetas (VMware) receives prestigious 2012 TiE50 award!
Office of the CTO Blogs
(Steve Herrod & Team
)
VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 Automates Java App Deployment
Configuring EMC Isilon SmartConnect – Part I: SmartConnect Basic
Jase's Place (Jase McCarty)
Customize the View Portal for Client Download with VMware View 5.1
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
Server Virtualization Quotes: VMware Forum 2012
VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)
Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
by Julia Anderson, Assistant Site Editor(editor@searchvmware.com at May 18, 2012 02:29 PM
How to open a command or shell prompt
VMware KBTV (VMware Knowledge Base Videos)
How to open a command or shell prompt
VMware KB TV
(How-to Videos
)
|
kb.vmware.com - This video discusses and demonstrates how to open a command or shell prompt on a Windows-based system, a Linux-based system and a Mac OS-based system as well showing you how to connect to a system using a Secure Shell or SSH connection. The… |
Vblock DNA, mutation, and why standards are important in converged infrastructure
View Yonder (Steve Chambers)
It’s Not Too Late
blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)
This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.
It’s Not Too Late
When RamDisks Get Full
PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)
What is your Definition of a Successful Implementation?
How do we measure success? This seems like it should be an easy question to answer but is it? Success itself is a dynamic variable that can be defined in several different ways from a promotion or even recognition from your peers. Now what about a successful cloud implementation or implementation in…
Tintri VMstore 1.4 will bring new scheduled snapshots and VAAI for NFS
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
VMUG Session Source Code
Virtualize Planet (Ricky El Qasem)
NVIDIA announces new virtualizeable GPU to power high graphics VDI
VMware VCP 5 study guide book review
Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)
Going to HP Discover, checkout these must-see VMware/virtualization sessions
vSphere-land (Eric Siebert)
May 17, 2012
New design for GabesVirtualWorld
Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)
After running the “Private Investigator” design, a film noir theme, for almost 2 years, it was time for a redesign. I asked my good twitter friend Jenneke van Wijngaarden (@JennekePenneke) for help and ideas. Jenneke is well known for her graffiti art on walls and paintings, but she had never…
Retrieving License keys from Multiple vCenters
VMware View Persona Management
Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)
A Review of VMware View 5.1 Limits and Maximums
myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)
vCO 101 – Test DPM
vSential (James Bowling)
NVIDIA introduces World’s Firs Virtualized GPU
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
Regional VMware User Group Networking and Learning in Charlotte North Carolina
VMware vCloud Blog
(vCloud Team
)
nVidia introduces the worlds “first virtualized GPU”
Shogan.tech (Sean Duffy)
Are large storage arrays dead at the hands of SSD?
StorageIO Blog (Greg Schulz)
#vBrownBag: vCloud Director & the AutoLab
vmDK (Damian Karlson)
Microsoft announces Assessment and Planning Toolkit 7.0 Beta Program
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
Why vCloud Architect will be the next must-have cloud certification
VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)
Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
by David Davis(ddavis@happyrouter.com at May 17, 2012 04:54 PM
Why vCloud Architect will be the next must-have cloud certification
VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)
Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
by David Davis(ddavis@happyrouter.com at May 17, 2012 04:54 PM
PowerCLI 101 – Test DPM
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
IT Confessional Series: IT Admins and Game of Thrones Have More in Common Than You Think
VMware Go Blog
(VMware Go Team
)
What is VM density with VMware and how to improve it
Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)
370x190-simplify-gvg-nolink.jpgThe other day, I introduced you to our new HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee. Today, I have a podcast with my fellow vExpert Eric Siebert. If you've been reading my blog, you know that HP 3PAR is a modern architecture designed with virtualization and cloud in mind. …
VMware View 5.1 & New View Clients Available
latoga labs
(Greg A Lato
)
VMware vShield App best practices list
Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)
New HP EVA improves capacity, performance and total cost of ownership
Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)
c02734161.jpgThe good news is that HP is continuing to invest in EVA P6000 Storage. We’re announcing a series of enhancements designed to help you optimize traditional and virtual workloads with new technology innovations. In a nutshell, these enhancements include:
- New models, EVA P6350 and EVA…
Help, My VDI Project is Hell! – a London VMUG presentation
WoodITWork.com (Julian Wood)
Where oh where did that little vCSA go?
SOS tech (Josh Andrews)
Pre-emptively enable HotAdd/HotPlug of a VM
vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)
It happens often to have to do maintenance on Virtual Machines bacause of an exhaustion of computing resources. A web server with many more visitors than those predicted when it was sized, a database server with newly added application, there are many examples.
In thse situations, a…
#VDI Tip 73: Enable SSO for View 5.1
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)
#VDI Tip 72 – Upgrade to View 5.1 – Clients First!
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)
Why is my pathing policy limited to “fixed” or “MRU” with things like MSCS cluster?
Yellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
)
Yesterday I received an email from someone. He wanted to know why he was limited to using either the “fixed” or “MRU” pathing policy for the LUNs attached to his MSCS cluster. In his environment they used round-robin for everything and not being able to configure all of them with the same…
Talking to SearchVirtualDesktop about NVIDIA’s Virtualized GPU
Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)
I had a good conversation with Bridget at SearchVirtualDesktop about NVIDIA’s Virtualized GPU. I think it is still to early to claim the year of the virtual desktop is about to start anytime soon. Here is the link http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/news/2240150384/NVIDIAs-virtualized-GPU-…
4 Ways VMware transforms Postgres for the Cloud
VMware vFabric Blog
(VMware vFabric Team
)
VIDEO: New Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) Version 9 (@XangatiPress)
VMware Videos (David Davis)
VMware View Storage Accelerator - The next step towards more reliable, more cost-effective storage for VDI environments
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
New View Clients Optimized for VMware View 5.1 Now Available on Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and Android!
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
View Storage Accelerator – VMware’s next step towards more reliable, more cost-effective storage for VDI environments
Office of the CTO Blogs
(Steve Herrod & Team
)
VMware Announces General Availability of View 5.1
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
The IaaS Cloud Performance Management Problem
Anecdotes from the trench: why manufacturing is better than on-site build
View Yonder (Steve Chambers)
General Availability of the new View Clients for 5.1, including ARM based for Linux!
That's My View
(Christoph Harding
)
General Availability of VMware View 5.1
That's My View
(Christoph Harding
)
Trilead VM Explorer 4 product review
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
VMware SRM5: clean up the recovery site after test
Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)
by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 17, 2012 10:49 AM
vExpert Spotlight: Nick Howell
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
Testing SRM5 without powering off the production
Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)
by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 17, 2012 10:26 AM
VMware View 5.1 released
Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)
VMware Released vCenter Operations Manager for View
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
Short Take: VMware View Client for Android, ICS Update
VMware Released New View 5.1 Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iPad, and Android
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
VMware Released View 5.1 and Launched Horizon Application Manager 1.5
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
Now available: VMware View 5.1, VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5 and a public beta program for the Project Octopus cloud data synchronization and collaboration service.
http://www.vmware.com/end-user-computing/
#vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCA Operational Maintenance
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
#vBrownBag Follow-Up VCAP-DCA Objective 2
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
[APAC] #vBrownBag Follow-Up – VCAP-DCD Performance
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
Release: VMware View 5.1
The VMguy (Dave Lawrence)
May 16, 2012
VMware EUC KB articles for the Week of May 14th, 2012
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)
Virsto-XenDesktop Combo Imminent
VMware SocialCast and Citrix Podio are The New Desktop
EMC World and EMC TC Conference key info.
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
VMware Forum 2012: In case you missed it
Server Virtualization Blog (SearchServerVirtualization.com)
Sorry Microsoft; Not Only Does vSphere Cost Less to Buy, It Also Costs Less to Operate.
Virtual Reality
(VMware Perspective
)
A week in virtualization
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
2012 – The Year of SQL Virtualization
The Lowercase w (Matt Liebowitz)
Mobility & The Client/Server Pendulum
Office of the CTO Blogs
(Steve Herrod & Team
)
VMware at EMC World + Instagram
VMware Global Alliances Blog
(VMware Alliances Team
)
Promoting green initiatives with VMware software
VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)
Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Add to Google
I’m virtualized! Now what?
VMware for Small-Medium Business
(VMware SMB Team
)
KB article about SvMotion / VDS / HA problem republished with script to mitigate!
Yellow Bricks
(Duncan Epping
)
Just a second ago the GSS/KB team republished the KB article that explain the vSphere 5.0 problem around SvMotion / vDS / HA. I wrote about this problem various times and would like to refer to that for more details. What I want to point out here though is that the KB article now has a script…
Satyam Vaghani – VMware Storage – Yesterday and Tomorrow
Virtual Insanity
(Sweemer, Sauer & Szastak
)
Demystifying FLOGI in HP VC-FC Module
Stretch Cloud (Prasenjit Sarkar)
Have you seen this?
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)
How to Retrieve the Username from a PNAgent Site
VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)
New from Sam Jacobs!
Today, a user on the Citrix Web Interface forum asked how one goes about retrieving a user’s name. As this is something a Web Interface developer does on a daily basis, I was able to respond quite quickly with the answer. His next question was whether the username could be…
by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at May 16, 2012 04:55 PM
Blog Post from GTC: Hosted desktop and workstation workloads - what about my 3D graphics?
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
This is why we can’t have nice things, your tax dollars at waste.
Thankfully the RAID saved us. (Gabriel Chapman)
Vendorwag in the Valley – Pure Storage
RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)
Validation with SAP Signals Strong Support for Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure
VMware Global Alliances Blog
(VMware Alliances Team
)
News: Virtualizing the Last Mile
How to: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 5: VRM Pairing and VR Deployment
Default Reasoning (Marek Zdrojewski)
VMware CTO Steve @Herrod Interviewed by @ericsiebert @hpstorageguy
VMware Videos (David Davis)
There’s a new guitar in town!
vcoportal (Joerg Lew)
CCNA – 4 – Applications
PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)
VMware View Evaluator's Guide
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
Manipulating OVFs? Which tools to use
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
Configure the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) in vSphere 5
Virtual IEF (Ivo Beerens)
Admission control and vCloud Allocation Pool model
Frank Denneman
(frankdenneman.nl
)
#VDI Tip 71: Best Practice – Leave the Firewall Turned on the Connection & Security Servers – View 5.1
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)
Melbourne VMware User Group Meeting 31/05/2012
blog.rack.org.au (Craig Waters)
HP 3PAR Get Virtual Guarantee
Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)
Today I have a very exciting announcement to share with you - it’s a new program called the Get Virtual Guarantee. I was really impressed with our HP 3PAR Get Thin Guarantee. This program pushes the limits even further. Check out this HP Storage Countdown video - about 80 seconds long - that…
Connecting Clouds
vArchitect Blog
(Jad El-Zein
)
Connecting Clouds
Federal Center of Excellence (CoE) Blog
(VMware FCoE Team
)
May 15, 2012
VMware announces vFabric Suite 5.1
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
Citrix Synergy 2012 Party with LifeHouse
VMBlog (David Marshall)
London VMUG, May 17th – Win a VMworld 2011 Bag from me.
Virtually Prepared (Darren Woollard)
Get 50 Horizon AppManager Licenses for FREE!
That's My View
(Christoph Harding
)
Database workload testing with Dell DVD Store
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
Overcoming the VDI IOPS Challenge
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
Installing HP P4000 (Lefthand) and configure replication
Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)
by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 15, 2012 07:43 PM
Installing VMware SRM 5
Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)
by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 15, 2012 07:42 PM
Software Defined Data Center: From Best Effort to 99%
VMware CTO talks about R&D plans for the future
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
VM-FEX for VDI is Bogus
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)
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VMware might announce next release of vSphere at VMworld
Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)
vSphere + SQL 2012 + AlwaysON
Cloud-Buddy (Bilal Hashmi)
The ViewYonder Tweet/Blog Tragic Quadrant
View Yonder (Steve Chambers)
OpenIndiana Installation walkthrough - Part 2
Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)
This is Part 2 of a series of posts explaining how to configure OpenIndiana as NAS storage device. The series is made up of the following parts:
- Background information about OpenIndiana and OS installation
- Network configuration and Setting up storage
- Presenting storage to your Hosts with iSCSI…
by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at May 15, 2012 05:51 PM
Save $300 on registration for HP Discover 2012! Learn about HP Discover here
Application Modeling in vFabric Application Director
VMware Technical Communications Video Blog
(VMware Tech Pubs
)
Enabling Virtual Machine Portability with OVF
VMware Technical Communications Video Blog
(VMware Tech Pubs
)
The Accelerating Rise of Rogue Clouds
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
VMware might announce next release of vSphere at VMworld 2012
UP2V (Marcel van den Berg)
London VMUG May 2012
The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson)
Is Citrix going to compete with Good Technology now?
Simplified Storage Automation for VMware View
VMware End User Computing
(VMware EUC Team
)
Transform IT+Business+You with EMC and VMware – See us at EMC World 2012
VMware Global Alliances Blog
(VMware Alliances Team
)
IT Confessional Series: Oops… Good Thing That Patch Update Was Automated!
VMware Go Blog
(VMware Go Team
)
Xangati brings scalability, capacity management, automated analytics model and tracks the end user activity in VDI sessions
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
Wish I had a whiteboard desk
virtual-blog.com
(Dave Hill
)
Monitoring Based on End-User Experience (EUX)
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner)
OpenIndiana Installation walkthrough - Part 3
Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)
This is Part 3 of a series of posts explaining how to configure OpenIndiana as NAS storage device. The series is made up of the following parts:
- Background information about OpenIndiana and OS installation
- Network configuration and Setting up storage
- Presenting storage to your hosts with iSCSI…
by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at May 15, 2012 02:27 PM
OpenIndiana Installation walkthrough - Part 1
Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)
- Background information about OpenIndiana and OS installation
- Network configuration and Setting up storage
- Presenting storage to your Hosts with iSCSI…
by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at May 15, 2012 02:26 PM
Multi-Tenancy: Who is the Tenant?
Xangati Introduces Performance Profiling for VDI End-Users
Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)
Finding VMs that will boot into the BIOS screen
Enterprise Admins (Brian Wuchner)
Introducing VMware vFabric Suite 5.1: Automated Deployment, New Components, and Open Source Support
VMware vFabric Blog
(VMware vFabric Team
)
London VMUG May 17th 2012
Jonathan Medd's Blog (Jonathan Medd)
VMware View automation with vCenter Orchestrator
myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)
Introducing the vFabric Suite 5.1 and vFabric SQLFire
The Console
(VMware Management
)
Poweron file?
Flash VDI Calculator 2.8 for VMware View 5.1 released
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
vExpert Spotlight: Niels Engelen
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
vCloud Director Monitoring – Which processes to watch
virtual-blog.com
(Dave Hill
)
Discover game changing replication for vSphere VMs
Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)
(Copied from the Veeam announcement) Need to change your disaster recovery practices? Join VMware vExpert Gabrie van Zanten, a principal consultant at Open Line for this LIVE webinar and discover how a strong replication strategy will improve your DR practices. Gabrie van Zanten is a VMware…
Dell PowerEdge R720
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)
The PowerEdge™ R720 server is one of the 12G models of Dell server’s portfolio. By working for a Dell’s partner I’ve got the opportunity to test one and those are my consideration.
Office 365 Phone Home
Vendor to Customer: Demand Open Clouds
vChat Episode 26 – My Big Fat Geeky vChat
TechHead (Simon Seagrave)
On the Road with vCO – North Carolina User Summit
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)
Webinar: Four Key Elements of a Successful Disaster Recovery Strategy
mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)
Virtual Machine Considerations For NetApp Storage
Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling)
May 14, 2012
What's new with iLO
Around the Storage Block (Zito & Siebert)
AHS-4_Capture.pngLast week I had a blog post that included ProLiant Gen8 teardown videos. About 5 minutes after filming those videos I recorded a podcast with Adrian Kasbergen to learn about what is new with iLO Management Engine. As a storage guy, I really appreciated the information as it helped…
6 High Notes from Citrix Synergy 2012: A Conference Recap
Citrix Synergy Heavy on Cloud, Mobility
vChat – Episode 26 – Big Fat Geeky vChat
VMware Videos (David Davis)
by David Davis, Eric Siebert, and Simon Seagrave at May 14, 2012 08:02 PM
I’ve added NetApp NCDA to my cert lineup!
vDestination (Greg Stuart)
Free tools for VMware
Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)
Configuring VMware SRM 5
Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)
by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at May 14, 2012 07:59 PM
Cloud Resource Meter
Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)
Optimized PowerShell performance with Cisco UCS PowerTool
Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)
VMware CTO gives glimpse of vSphere future in VMUG videos
InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)
If you thought that VMworld was the only place to find out information about what VMware is doing, you thought wrong. VMworld is definitely the place to be to learn about "anything and everything" VMware in one fell swoop, but local and regional VMware user group meetings (VMUGs) can provide…
VMware View VDI Flash Calculator v2.8 Released
myvirtualcloud.net (Andre Leibovici)
Basic principles of backup policies
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrea Mauro)
Today a new traing video has been added in the Backup Academy web site: “Basic principles of backup policies” by me :)
In this lesson I will explain what is a backup policy and also give some information about the flow and the process to design a backup plan. Then I will detail some aspects of…
Understanding vSphere Private VLANs For Fun and Profit
Wahl Network (Chris Wahl)
[INFO] vCloud Director Fast Provisioned Catalog Virtual Machines
VMware vCloud Blog
(vCloud Team
)
VMware Orchestrator ideas for workflow automation samples
Virtualization Tips (Brian Suhr)
Clearpath “Planning for the Cloud” Event with VMware, Cisco & EMC
VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)
Duco Jaspars at vConsult goes live
NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)
Fellow vExpert Duco Jaspars finally decided to start his own VMware blog. His website can be found at blog.vconsult.nl. Duco who works as a Virtualization Consultant is a well-known figure in the virtualization community. He has helped many people with advice and guidance but he has made an art of…
New Articles Published for Week Ending 5/12/12
VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest
New website design
Virtual Clouds (Marco Broeken)
Fusion-IO: some performance tests
vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca)
In some previous articles I described Fusion-IO technology and how to install on of their card in a ESXi server. In this post, as many of you were waiting for, it’s time to run some performance tests and see what is able to do this product.
For my tests I used VMware I/O Analyzer,…
Announcing VMware’s first ever GSS Virtual Customer Support Day!
Go Mobile, Go Virtual or Go Home! – HIMSS Europe
Office of the CTO Blogs
(Steve Herrod & Team
)
Fusion-io Share Price Up on Talk of Dell Bid
VMBlog (David Marshall)
vCenter Operations and Virtual Machine Faults
mwpreston dot net (Michael Preston)
Hosting.com and VMware Provide Insurance via Disaster Recovery
VMware Global Alliances Blog
(VMware Alliances Team
)
VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast - Show Notes #187 - Open Topic: New CTO site, Software-Defined Data Center, vCAT
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
Citrix Synergy 2012 - Peder Ulander Interview
VMBlog (David Marshall)
Citrix Hosted Server VDI Tech Preview
virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)
Citrix Synergy 2012 - HotLink Interview
VMBlog (David Marshall)
Citrix Synergy 2012 - PaperShare Interview
VMBlog (David Marshall)
AppSense Hints at Future Direction with UV Suite 8.4, Data Locker and RAPsphere Acquisition
Much of the recent buzz around AppSense from AppSense Labs,the research division at AppSense that is responsible for StrataApps, DataLocker and DataNow, its hot new tools to support user installed applications and provide increased security in consumer cloud services. Nevertheless, AppSense has not…
Columbus Ohio & Austin Texas Bound…
RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)
Powershell script to set the CDP settings for vsphere
why ? (Erik Schils)
RVTools 3.3 has been released
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)
Recent Interview with BizTech Magazine
DoubleCloud
(Steve Jin
)
Never miss an appointment again with PowerShell
Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)
May 13, 2012
Review: PHD Virtual Monitor
ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)
What's new with HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz)
by Andreas Peetz (noreply@blogger.com) at May 13, 2012 07:30 PM
Dropbox 2012 Quest! Get an additional 1GB of space.
VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)
I like Dropbox. It’s super easy to use, supports all the client devices I need and I’ve found a ton of enhancements that really make it work the way I want it to within my workflow. For whatever reason, I haven’t ponied up the cash to get more space though. Instead, I have been…
by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at May 13, 2012 06:06 PM
VMware Press Sweepstakes
vspecialist (Michael Poore)
Creating and Storing PowerShell Credentials
Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)
I actually do not understand why I have not put this in a blog post before, but it is about time - because I used it again today.
Sometime you need to store a credential for a number of purposes, be it a scheduled script - or just not having to enter credentials each and every time you would like to…
by Maish Saidel-Keesing (noreply@blogger.com) at May 13, 2012 12:10 PM
Weekly Twitter Updates
Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)
Thinking about installing #VMware ESXi on my new Mac Mini. # Very impressed with @alfredapp for Mac so far. Handy little app. # RT @vmrick “@shannonsnowden: Very impressed with @alfredapp for Mac so far. Handy little app.” < just installed it <- great searching files # My soon-to-be #VMware ESXi…
Technical Marketing Update 2012 - Week 19
VMTN Blog
(Technical News
)
When should N+1 not Equal 1 Host with VMware HA?
Long White Clouds
(Michael Webster
)
