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Sysprep Customized Clones of Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista Virtual Machines Prompt For Network Location Selection Upon...
The VirtualCenter Server service stops when vCenter Server and the vCenter Server database are separated by a firewall ...
Recommended configuration maximums for NIC ports on ESX/ESXi 4.0 and 4.0 U1 (1020808)
Recommended configuration maximums for NIC ports on ESX/ESXi 4.0 and 4.0 U1 (1020808) ...
CVE 2003-0786, CVE 2008-0891 and CVE 2008-1672 OpenSSL Vulnerability and ESX (1008521)
CVE 2003-0786, CVE 2008-0891 and CVE 2008-1672 OpenSSL Vulnerability and ESX (1008521) ...
The VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails to start with an Error code 2 (1017390)
The VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails to start with an Error code 2 (1017390) ...
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 5, Patch ESXe350-200911201-I-UG: Updates Firmware (1015045)
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 5, Patch ESXe350-200911201-I-UG: Updates Firmware (1015045) ...
Yellow Bricks
Yesterday we had an internal discussion about the support of PVSCSI in combination with a 64bit OS. VMware’s documentation currently states the following: Paravirtual SCSI adapters are supported on the following guest operating systems: Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 source As we normally spell out every single detail this...
vCenter Orchestrator Blog (vCO Team)
Two of my colleagues just launched a new website. It is probably one of the few vCenter Orchestrator Blogs out there and definitely worth following. Christophe & I (Burke) have launched a new website at http://www.vcoteam.info that we hope to use to help educate and encourage the adoption of Orchestrator for...
VM Monitoring (aka VM HA) heartbeat
I got a question around VM Monitoring (aka virtual machine level HA) this week. A customer wanted to test if VM Monitoring worked and as such disabled the NIC of the virtual machine and waited for 30 seconds for the VM Monitoring response to kick in…. nothing happened. VM Monitoring restarts...
I received a couple of questions around my esxtop article yesterday so I guess it wasn’t completely clear what “locked” meant. I had a difficult time understanding it myself but I was fortunate enough that one of my colleagues (Thanks Valentin) got to the bottom of it and emailed me...
esxtop running out of control?
One of my colleagues (Thanks Horst) pointed me to this option I had never noticed with ESXTOP “-l”. The option has been added to avoid high CPU utilization as the result of a large amount of LUNs during collection of the storage statistics. kb 1005894 Add a lock mode (-l) to esxtop...
Got a couple of questions around this over the last few days and wanted to clear it up. The VCAP4-DCA (Datacenter Administrator) is 100% LAB based. For those who did the VI3 Enterprise Exam it will be similar to the second part of the exam. In other words you will receive...
Blogs
Price is Right for Memory Upgrades
Memory gets cheaper, so it's time to give your servers a boost to keep up the virtual pace....
Reduce HA Overhead with Custom Admission Control
Admission control is a complicated beast with the default settings being 'good enough' for most installations....
Now you can see what I was only able to describe....
Storage for Virtualization on Flash? Yes.
Flash-based SANs have performance up the wazoo, and are now cheaper than you think....
I am always looking for ways to make a physical-to-virtual conversion go better....
5 Big Considerations for vCPU Provisioning
When provisioning virtual machines, questions will always come up on how many virtual processors to assign to the host....
h0bbel.p0ggel.org
New Photo Blog: blog.opticalpork.com
In an effort to try and clean-up my online presence, I've set up a new site blog.opticalpork.com. This site will, from now on, be my main photography/portfolio site.This is the first of several planned changes in how/where I publish my online content, more stuff to come later on! ...
Tape is dead, long live tape or how water can ruin your weekend
A little while ago, disaster struck. What seemed like a normal day at work, suddenly turned into a frenzy I have yet to experience anything similar to.What happened? We realized something was wrong when we lost contact with one of our non-virtualized servers. I couldn’t contact it at all; it...
HP Proliant ML 115 G5, Windows Server 2008 and nvstor.sys
I initially bought a HP Proliant ML 115 server as a cheap test/lab server for VMware vSphere and miscellaneous rollout projects at work, but all of a sudden I needed it for some other project that required that I install Windows Server 2008 directly on the hardware itself.As is the...
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Re-Released
Microsoft has re-released the previously revoked Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. This time around, it's GPL licensed with source-code.The tool has previously been released and subsequently revoked again after Microsoft was made aware that the tool, developed by a third party, included GPL licensed code in the compiled binary.Personally I'm...
Maish Saidel-Keesing has revisited his previous post "Hot Add and "Need have have"" where he (like I did) pokes some fun at a rather strange error message in ESXi 4.0. Now that Update 1 is out, Maish tries again, this time with better results.Read the whole post: "Need have have"...
Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Revoked?
Yesteday I had to reinstall my home computer due to a botched BIOS flash (don't ask, long story...), and decided that it was time I installed Windows 7 on that computer as well.Remembering the Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I went looking for the download only to be met...
VMblog.com - Virtualization Technology News and Information for Everyone
Citrix Systems, Inc. announced today that Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has deployed Citrix® XenDesktop® with FlexCast™ delivery... Read more at VMblog.com....
Abiquo 1.6 Delivers Enterprise-Class, Vendor-Independent Cloud Management
Abiquo , a leading provider of Cloud management software solutions, today announced that Abiquo 1.6, the latest release of its revolutionary Cloud... Read more at VMblog.com....
Vizioncore Presents Physical-to-Virtual System Protection with Hyper-V Support at Microsoft Tech-Ed
Vizioncore Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, Inc ., will demonstrate how vConverter 5.e provides physical-to-virtual server... Read more at VMblog.com....
Leostream Corporation, a leading developer of virtual hosted desktop software , today announced the release of Leostream Connection Broker 6.5, which Read more at VMblog.com....
Xen Hypervisor 3.4.3 Ready for Download
The Xen 3.4 release contains a number of important new features and updates compared to the 3.3 release including: Device passthrough improvements,... Read more at VMblog.com....
Cloud-Computing and SaaS Drive Data Democratisation in Public Sector
Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications are driving the democratisation of data through lower cost, greater collaboration,... Read more at VMblog.com....
Virtualization Pro
vCenter Linked Mode configuration impacts maximums
In my earlier tip on configuring vCenter Linked Mode, I didn’t mention how the configuration maximums are affected when the federation feature is used. When Linked Mode is used, a few categories of the vCenter Server Maximums are changed. There are four primary categories impacted by the use of Linked Mode...
Dear VMware: Eat dirt. Love, Microsoft
Dear VMware: Thanks for the letter. Not. Love, Microsoft P.S.: Did you hear the news? I think your customers will have fun trading in their View desktops. P.P.S.: We’re still bigger than you and can put money behind whatever we want because of our other products. Sucks having server virtualization be your bread...
Dear Hyper-V: Thanks! Love, VMware
Dear Hyper-V: Thank you for supporting vSphere adoption in your roundabout way. Much love, VMware …not your typical mud-slinging blog, is it? Actually, my quippy love letter was inspired by an article we just published over at SearchVMware.com by Steve Kaplan. In it, Kaplan basically argues that while smaller companies will take the bait...
Riddle: How do you power-off a VM if it’s already powered off?
As an instructor, Mike Laverick firmly believes that “pulling the plug” (or, restarting the host VM) is not the answer every time you run into a problem with a virtual machine that resides on the host VM. He is a believer in figuring out what’s causing the issue and fixing...
So, you want to learn View, ThinApp, Nexus 1000V and PowerCLI?
As all of you no doubt agree, ongoing training is a constant in our world. If we don’t move forward with our learning and abilities, we get left in the proverbial dust. Thus, it was with great enthusiasm that I began reviewing TrainSignal’s latest VMware training series: VMWare vSphere Pro...
Technical tips from you, the readers!
Last week, I traded books for tips from you — the readers. Several people now have additional literature in their possession. And as great as that may be for them, the real value is in sharing the tips they bartered for books. Here are the tips: “When in doubt, Google it. There is a...
Malaysia VMware Communities
Is a very tired week for me since I had traveled 3 different locations within 2 weeks time for business purposes. This morning, while I woke up and checked my email, I realized John Troyer from VMware, who is the MAN that organize the vExpert 2009 and 2010 nomination had...
‘False’ Alarm Host connection failure
For the past few weeks, my customers keep received an alarm “Host connection failure” email alerts via VMware vCenter but end up it’s a false alarm. The email alert example as below: Target: kulsrvprd01.malaysiavm.com Stateless event alarm Alarm Definition: ([Event alarm expression: Cannot connect host - incorrect Ccagent] OR [Event alarm expression: Cannot...
VMware had officially announced the certification path to obtain the VCDX version 4 recently. Now is time for all of us who are keen to proceed with VCDX 4 to understand the path to obtain the certification level. you need to obtain VCP 4. You will require to Pass the VCAP –...
VMware Partner with Google to provide Cloud Portability
VMware had partner with Google now to ensure the cloud portability. This will significant improve the portability of the cloud ready application in the future which provide more flexibility and success integration within vCloud, vSphere, 3rd party cloud and Google cloud. you can view more information from the official announcement here. Related...
Video showing stateless computing on Cisco UCS
Here is the video I uploaded for Stateless Computing on Cisco UCS which capture by my counterpart. Really thanks for his time to capture on this. Or you can view from here. Related posts:Stateless Computing from Cisco UCS Stateless Computing from Cisco VS VMware vMotion or Cold Migration Cisco UCS C Series Rack Server Tags:...
Stateless Computing from Cisco VS VMware vMotion or Cold Migration
VMware had done the best job since they introduced vmotion and cold migration which allow us to move the state of the virtual machine from 1 Host to another with or without down time. In virtualization, it encapsulated the entire Server into the virtual machine format and it is hardware...
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VIDEO: Using VMware’s Guided Consolidation by David Davis
In this new video, I cover what VMware Guided Consolidation is, how to install it, and how to use it to convert a physical server to a virtual server. (To watch the full video, click on the video graphic below)...
In this new video by David Davis, he shows you how to download, install, and get started with Sun VirtualBox – a free client-side hypervisor. (Click on the graphic below to watch the video)...
VIDEO: Using VMware Site Survey to see if you can enable Fault Tolerance
In this new video, I show you how to use VMware’s Site Survey tool to see if your servers are going to be compatible with Fault Tolerance (FT) and if they will be compatible with each other. Watch the video by clicking on the video window below....
VIDEO: Backup and Restore VM Guests with VM Data Recovery
In this video, I show you how easy it is to backup and restore VMware vSphere guest virtual machines uing VMware Data Recovery (vDR). Watch the full free video by clicking on the video window below…. http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/player.asp?AYHWlRYC...
Why VMware should release VMware vCenter “Express”
In my latest article, I cover why, in my opinion, VMware should release a version of vCenter for the small business. While VMware has vCenter Essentials for SMBs with 20 or fewer physical ESX hosts, I believe that a version of vCenter is needed for the “even-smaller” business with, say,...
Using the Free vKernel Capacity View
vKernel Capacity View is a tiny 1MB free application that you can install and analze your virtual infrastructure capacity in under 2 minutes. I know that 2 minutes maysound crazy but, believe me, I tried it. Let me show you how it works. What is Capacity View? vKernel makes a variety of...
Documenting a virtualization project
Upgrading SAP Finance in a virtual environment (RDM vs. VMFS)
As mentioned in an earlier post we have clients running SAP Finance applications. One of them is now going to upgrade to the latest version and because we host the application platform for them we will expand the infrastructure to hold the test environment and also upgrade from ESX3.5 to...
While reworking our demo servers I ran into an old issue with Openfiler regarding static IP config. At first boot of the Openfiler VM it had networking and received an IP address via DHCP. It was not possible however to change this to a static IP. In the Openfiler forums...
VMware acquires assets of RTO Software
With a press release (http://blogs.vmware.com/view/2010/02/vmware-welcomes-rto-software.html) and Twitter post from CTO Stephen Herrod (twitter.com/herrod) VMware has announced the purchase of the assets and staff of RTO Software. Today we are proud to announce that VMware has acquired the assets of Alpharetta, GA based RTO Software adding their technology and talented people to...
Running SAP BFC (Magnitude) 100% virtualized
Last year we got a request from a client who wanted an application environment for his SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation (formerly Cartesis Magnitude) application. The new environment would be used for group consolidation for a number of companies with most of them located in EMEA. Because of the relative importance...
New upcoming product from Veeam: Surebackup
Links have started to float around on Twitter and in a blogpost from Doug Hazelman over at VeeamMeUp: http://veeammeup.com/2010/02/is-veeam-the-best-backup-solution-for-vsphere-4.html. Does all this mean that Veeam is just taking a break to let our competitors catch up to us? Of course not! Over the next few months Veeam is preparing...
HP DL180G6 RAID controller issue with WD harddisks
We ran into this problem with two new DL180 G6 servers combined with Western Digital (WD) 750GB SATA drives. The description matches everything in this thread on the HP ITRC forums: http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1249041708681+28353475&threadId=1357085 -tried different mediums (centos,redhat) -same behavior with different RAIDs (tried 1 and RAID 5) -yes, I also used the smart array linux...
NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof
The Operations Panel is a script tool, which runs on the client browser and extends the default ESX server web page with a short list of all available virtual machines. It gives the user the ability to perform simple power operations (start, stop, suspend, resume). Easily accessible user interface for...
New VMware vSphere Training Course: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI
This hands-on training course introduces the use of VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI to automate VMware vSphere 4. This course demonstrates ways to automate tasks that can reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability. Objectives • Automate VMware® ESX™ configuration• Automate the provisioning of virtual machines • Automate...
Caveat when using - Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity
I think everyone knows the three admissions control policies which can be enforced on a VMware HA Cluster. If you are using the default “Host Failures Allowed” policy, you must keep in mind that the largest virtual machine reservation will decide how big your cluster slot size is going to...
And the VMware vExpert Award for 2010 goes to...
VMware is thanking me for my contributions to the community of VMware users and my willingness to share my expertise with others. They have presented me the VMware vExpert Award for 2010. The vExpert program is a way for VMware to acknowledge and help those who 'go the extra mile' and give back to the...
Scott Herold is happy to announce the release of the vEcoShell 1.2.6. It’s out of beta and officially has been deemed as a stable release. The list of features is quite limited, but the biggest change is multi session management which makes copying and pasting from the web and PS1 files possible. Under...
Don’t add resource pools for fun, they’re dangerous
In this article I will explain the hidden dangers when adding a resource pool with default settings to a DRS cluster, but first off all kudos to my famous virtualization friends Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman and Bouke Groenescheij. They already have written several great articles about resource pools, shares and...
News
F5 Networks Bolsters Virtual Server Management
Leading provider of application delivery networking devices announces integration with Microsoft System Center....
Business Case for Windows Phone 7 Outlined
Microsoft described its views on why its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series operating system will meet the needs of businesses....
Cloud Computing Drives Microsoft Announcements at TechEd North America
The day-one keynote centered on product enhancements to the Windows Azure platform, Bing Maps, Windows 7, Windows Server and Communications Server, among other technologies....
Microsoft Launches Expression Studio 4
Microsoft updates its Web and application design suite with streamlined features and support for Visual Studio 2010 projects....
SharePoint Tools Vendor Idera Acquires iDevFactory
Idera adds SharePoint security admin tools to its portfolio with iDevFactory deal...
SP1 Roadmap for Windows Server 2008 R2 Unveiled
Microsoft on Monday announced virtualization and other improvements coming with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7....
VMwareTips
With great honor and enthusiasm I proudly received notification that I was selected to be a VMware vExpert for 2010. Thank you John Troyerfor building such a great community and for creating such a program that shows how much VMware truly respects the effort we put into evangelizing virtualization to...
vMotion over Distance support with EMC VPLEX Metro
Last month at EMC World we released a storage virtualization product unlike any other. EMC VPLEX not only virtualizes back-end storage from other vendors it also allows shared storage to be presented active/active over long distances. This capability makes it possible for long distance vMotion and brings a new technical...
VCAP4 and VCDX4 Certifications
Have you been wanting to start down the VCDX3 track and were a little hesitant because you knew the VCDX4 would be shortly approaching? Well here is some information that could help you with your planning. VMware has recently made public some changes to their certifications program. As many of you...
VMware Certified Professional vSphere 4 Study Guide
After almost 8 long months the time is upon us! The McGraw-Hill published VMware Certified Professional vSphere 4 (VCP410) Study Guide is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com! I had the honor of working on this book as the technical editor and I could tell you that if you’re planning...
VMware ESX(i) 4.0 Patch Bundle 06
As handful of patches have just been released by VMware for their flagship bare-metal virtualization products ESX and ESXi. With no surprise to me the majority of the patches are for ESX and relate to security flaws and vulnerabilities found within the Service Console. Keep in mind these vulnerabilities in no-way...
Announcing New Windows 3.1 Training
New Once in a Lifetime Windows 3.1 Training Offer http://www.trainsignal.com/windowstraining.aspx...
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Viridity EnergyCenter - accurately modeling data center energy use
I’ve been mulling over some remarks made by Mike Rowan, Founder and CTO, Viridity Software, at The Future-Net Conference and Expo a while ago. I’ve been meaning to post something for some time.Viridity’s key pointsThere are over 3 million datacenters in the US today. On the order of 1.5% to...
Priacta - an update on a streamlined way to get things done
Simple is better as far as I'm concerned. Priacta makes GTD simple....
Telx Customer Business Exchange
I’m presenting at Telx’s customer business exchange at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City today. Telx, by the way, is a subscriber to one of Tier1 Research Services. Tier1 Research is another business unit of The 451 Group. My presentation today will examine some of the elements of...
VM6 - taming virtual environments for the midmarket
Eric Courville, Founder and COO of VM6 spent some time introducing me to VMmx V2.1, a tool to help mid-market companies deploy virtualized environments. We both agreed that deploying virtual desktops, virtual servers, orchestration and automation software, virtual storage software and management software for virtualized environments can be quite daunting...
Nasuni’s CEO, Andres Rodriguez, and I had an in-depth discussion about how mid market companies could save a great deal of money by using cloud based storage. I was somewhat concerned about adding complexity when many of the target companies aren’t really prepared to deal with a complex environment. Andres...
RTFM Education
Chinwag with Scott Lowe…[Episode 15]
The chinwag has been offline for a couple of weeks, mainly because I was on holiday in the middle of May. I should have Scott Lowe on the chinwag last week when I was in Finland, teaching the Fast Track course for DNS Arrow – sadly the wifi and Skype...
Citrix and VMware – The Client Hypervisor
Citrix recently announced their work is almost done on the client hypervisor (can you call it a hypervisor if their is a DOM0 or parent partition?). That apparently ruffled some feathers and caused a bit of kerfuffle. [Yes, that really is an Andy & Lou reference] Personally, I wondering what...
VMware View 4.5 speculation put to bed
It’s come to my attention that some venerable commentors believe the good ship VMware View 4.5 is trouble, and taking in water. It’s my firm belief that the ship is steady as she goes… Don’t believe me? Look I know when the GA is but I can’t say because I’m...
VMware best practices: Why virtualise vCenter?
One of the most hotly contested issues debated on my training courses is whether you should or should not virtualize vCenter. Some folks are convinced that it should remain physicalized citing somewhat out-date recommendation to this affect back in VMWorld 2005. Well, there’s nothing like keeping you best practice policies...
Bulk VMware administration: Using PowerCLI with standard switches
One of the things that always frustrates me about VMware vSphere and its predecessors – is how ungeared up its graphical UI is for so called bulk administrative tasks. I’d goes so far to say its one the single most important things that VMware could improve its in management environment....
Well, I have been a bizzy bee. Writing lots of content for RTFM big parent website – TechTarget. A couple of months back I was very fortunate to get some free training on Microsoft Hyper-V/SCVMM courtesy of Microsoft. Oh, if only Citrix could be so welcoming and helpful. Never mind....
blog.scottlowe.org
After a few days—OK, maybe a few more weeks—of more intense scrutiny and study, I wanted to share a bit more information on VPLEX.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.A Deeper Look at VPLEX...
VMware vExpert 2010: Thank You!
I am pleased, honored, and humbled to announce that I have been extended a VMware vExpert award for my community contributions. Wow!This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.VMware vExpert 2010: Thank You!...
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Virtumania This is a virtualization-oriented podcast with Rich Brambley (of vmetc.com) and Marc Farley (of 3Par). ...
This is Storage Short Take #6, the latest installation in my irregularly-updated series of storage-related links and posts. This installation focuses heavily on the announcements coming out of EMC World 2010.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise...
The Vblock is getting some additional attention and exposure recently; here are a few posts that I've seen come through my RSS reader.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.Some Vblock Posts...
VMex 2.1 from VM6 Software is a "software stack" built on Microsoft Hyper-V that aims to offer a complete virtualization solution for the SMB.This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.VM6 VMex 2.1 Release...
VCritical
Idle RHEV Hypervisors save power?
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization tries to save power by consolidating VMs onto fewer hosts. Unlike VMware DPM, hosts remain powered on -- still consuming significant datacenter energy. Only vSphere safely powers off unneeded hosts during off-peak periods....
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: Pentium II Inside!
While VMware ESX exposes the latest performance-enhancing CPU instructions to virtual machines, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) takes a more conservative approach -- downgrading all CPUs to masquerade as an old Pentium II....
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization HA [ha ha]
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has an HA feature -- Red Hat advertises it as equivalent to VMware HA. Take a look at the numerous deficiencies in that product that will have you laughing all the way to the datacenter - HA [ha ha]....
RHEV Manager — It’s not just a clever name
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is a single point of failure and the only management interface for RHEV Hypervisors. Oh, and it only runs on a physical Windows box....
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not Enterprise Virtualization
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization users may opt for a full installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a hypervisor host. Besides adding extra cost, RHEL KVM packages and management tools are incompatible with RHEV and must be replaced....
What is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization?
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a new competitor to VMware vSphere. After almost half a year on the market, is anyone using it?...
VM /ETC
Live Coverage From TechEd 2010 – Tuesday
I’m starting to get the hang of using Cover It Live (CiL) at a conference. I’m still working out whether using an iPhone/iTouch/iPad/Blackberry/Browser is the best way to update when mobile. I added some 30 second audio clips from @johnobeto, @cxi, @vmdoug, and myself in yesterday’s CiL session. Did you...
Live Coverage From TechEd 2010 – Monday
Once again I am using Cover It Live to collect my Monday #teched tweets as well as make occasional live comments from the Veeam booth while at Microsoft TechEd 2010. I am also adding several people’s tweets to the stream who I know are at the conference. Those Included: @cxi @brento @johnobeto @vmdoug @dsiles As I...
VIRTUMANIA Episode 14: Virtualization and Networking Turf Wars
The VIRTUMANIA continues with Episode 14! Marc, Rick and I host very special guests David Davis and Greg Schulz for a discussion about networking for virtualization. The following is the podcast summary: VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 14 – Virtualization and Networking Turf Wars. Hosts Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley...
Live Coverage From TechEd 2010 – Travel Day
I’m headed to New Orleans, LA for Microsoft TechEd 2010 the first half of the week. I’m there to work the Veeam booth and help show how companies can manage VMware infrastructure with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager using the nworks Management Pack. I’m not sure whether I’ll get to...
Where vExpert 2010 Ranks For Me
Along with others yesterday, I received email notice from VMware’s @jtroyer that I was designated a vExpert for 2010. I was thrilled to win the award in 2009, VMware’s inaugural year of the program, and I’m just as thrilled to be named again this year. But being named a vExpert...
Take VMware SRM Survey, Get a Free Copy of Laverick’s Book, and Donate $10 to UNICEF
Mike Laverick VMware needs feedback from SRM (Site Recovery Manager) customers. The SRM product team is asking that customers take a 15 minute survey about their deployments. In return, the first 1000 to participate will receive a free PDF copy of Mike Laverick’s SRM 4.0 book, and VMware will donate $10...
SearchServerVirtualization Blog
Top 4 virtualization security gotchas
Not surprisingly, cloud computing was the big theme at last week’s VMware Virtualization Forum in Boston. For the most part, VMware and the other vendors there focused on the nuts and bolts of the cloud; Bogomil Balkansky, vice president of product marketing, admitted, “We have really outdone ourselves in terms of...
VMware: Adopt private cloud – or else!
I attended the VMware Virtualization Forum, a scaled-down, traveling VMworld that floored in Boston yesterday. Bogomil Balkansky, VMware vice president of product marketing, gave the keynote, and talked – surprise surprise – about the journey to cloud computing. Now, I’ve heard many, many VMware executives talk about cloud computing, but here...
So, VMware, is Google a real cloud now?
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That old saying sure doesn’t apply to the cloud computing market. Just last summer, VMware came out and said Google wasn’t a real cloud company. Now, Google and VMware are joining forces. At last July’s New England VMware User Group meeting in Brunswick,...
VMworld is turning into a cloud conference
Public voting on the VMworld 2010 call for papers is now open, and the ballot gives us our first look at what the conference’s focus will be. Surprise, surprise, it’s cloud computing. At this week’s EMC World, the annual conference from VMware’s parent company, the theme was “Journey to the Private...
Diane Greene’s VMware was ‘anti-EMC,’ exec says
BOSTON — EMC and VMware’s close relationship was on full display here at EMC World 2010 this week, as evidenced by the many announcements about VMware storage integration and other virtualization strategies. Even though EMC has owned VMware since 2003, the two companies haven’t always been so buddy-buddy. Yesterday, an EMC...
EMC, VMware tighten storage integration
BOSTON — Yesterday at EMC World, the focus was on virtualization and private cloud. Today the spotlight is shining on EMC’s bread and butter, storage, but there’s still some virtualization news to report. EMC made two announcements about improving storage integration with VMware. First, you can now manage its CLARiiON and...