Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: VMWare
vSphere App for iPad Download
Posted by on October 26, 2010
Whilst we all await the “official” vSphere administration app for the iPad, as previewed at VMworld I found myself needing something to control my home vSphere lab environment from my shiny new iPad. The iPad has now integrated itself as the device of choice with my wife & kids and is in regular use [...]
Carolina VMware User Summit in Charlotte, NC
Posted by on June 12, 2010
Bit of a change of location for this week as I find myself at the Carolina VMware User Summit (VMUG) meeting in Charlotte, NC. (for anyone else not from here; you can familiarise yourselves with NC at Wikipedia like I did ). First impressions for this event are that wow, it’s BIG – for [...]
Are you running SRM? want to make the world a better place, and get a free copy of Mike Lavericks finest?
Posted by on June 1, 2010
VMware are running a survey for SRM customers and donations will go to Mike’s chosen charity, UNICEF, all help appreciated – and you get a free PDF book, what more could you want? Dear VMware Customer, The VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) product team is looking for product feedback on SRM deployments. If [...]
Where Next for VMware Workstation?
Posted by on April 28, 2010
I love VMware Workstation, I have used it since about 1999 when I was first introduced to virtualization and it totally revolutionised the way I did my home and work lab study and later production systems. Since then it has always introduced new features with every version that seemed to be back-ported into the [...]
VMware Licensing for the vCloud..
Posted by on March 29, 2010
I have been involved with VMware’s vCloud programme since it was announced late 2008, I was part of getting involved as one of a handful of partners on the launch-day and I have been doing private cloud work with customers since early 2008. Whilst I was somewhat disappointed that as a smaller partner we [...]
Subscribe to VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast in iTunes
Posted by on March 16, 2010
I have been listening to some of the recent VMware communities roundtable podcasts, they are great for getting up to date with things in the car or on the train – but I could never find them via iTunes so I could automatically subscribe to it so was downloading via the TalkShoe page. Fear [...]
Upgrading to a new PC in stages using VMware Converter
Posted by on February 8, 2010
If like me you travel around a lot and are pretty busy finding the time to get a new laptop setup with all of the data and non-standard build software you require can be a time-consuming chore. More often than not you will be upgrading to a new more powerful machine with larger disks [...]
iSCSI LUN is very slow/no longer visible from vSphere host
Posted by on October 29, 2009
I encountered this situation in my home lab recently – to be honest I’m not exactly sure of the cause yet, but I think it was because of some excessive I/O from the large number of virtualized vSphere hosts and FT instances I have been using mixed with some scheduled storage vMotion – over [...]
Installing VMware Workstation on Windows 7
Posted by on October 27, 2009
You may recall I previously posted on problems installing VMware Workstation 6.5 on Windows 7, this problem seems to have been resolved with the upcoming VMware Workstation 7 which adds support for Windows 7 as a guest and as a host. You can download the Workstation 7 RC build here Release Build here and see the [...]
Getting access to VMworld content if you couldn’t make it in person
Posted by on October 25, 2009
Now the noise around VMworld has calmed down I thought I would let you know that the vast amount of excellent technical content that was presented at the event itself is available to stream online or as an MP3 (audio only) or slide download (audio only). As you’d expect, the catch is it’s not [...]
