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VMworld 2012 Blog Coverage from VMworld Bloggers

May 18, 2012 It’s Not Too Late (blog.scottlowe.org - Scott Lowe)
It’s not too late to sign up for Spousetivities at EMC World 2012 ! The conference is upon us next week, and if you have a spouse/partner/friend/family member traveling with you then you owe it to them to check out Spousetivities. More information on...
May 18, 2012 When RamDisks Get Full (PlanetVM - Howarth, Rimmer, van Antwerpen & Mittell)
I thought it might be worth sharing the outcome of some troubleshooting of some ESXi 5 servers running off SD cards, in case anyone else encounters similar issues. ...
May 17, 2012 New design for GabesVirtualWorld (Gabes 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...
May 17, 2012 Retrieving License keys from Multiple vCenters (VMware PowerCLI Blog - vSphere PowerCLI Blog)
Posted by Alan Renouf Technical Marketing ...
May 17, 2012 VMware View Persona Management (vClouds - Marco Broeken)
I stumbled upon a great post from Simon Long I wanted to share with you. ...
May 17, 2012 Regional VMware User Group Networking and Learning in Charlotte North Carolina (VMware vCloud Blog - VMware vCloud Blog)
By: David Davis ...
May 17, 2012 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...
May 17, 2012 General Availability of the new View Clients for 5.1, including ARM based for Linux! (That's my View - Christoph Harding)
Together with VMware View 5.1, they also announced the new clients for this version. There are a lot of great enhancements here as well. Pay attention for the new ARM based Linux client. ...
May 17, 2012 General Availability of VMware View 5.1 (That's my View - Christoph Harding)
VMware has announced the General Availability of VMware View 5.1, the newest version of it’s enterprise desktop virtualization solution. The new version comes with the following enhancements: ...
May 17, 2012 vExpert Spotlight: Nick Howell (VMTN Blog - VMTN Blog)
Name:   Nick Howell Blog URL:  datacenterdude.com Twitter handle :  @that1guynick Current employer:  NetApp – Virtualization Solutions Architect How did you get into IT? I started in IT right around Y2K, cabling buildings, learning about...
May 17, 2012 VMware View 5.1 released (vClouds - Marco Broeken)
VMware released version 5.1 of their Desktop Virtualization product VMware View. ...
May 17, 2012 VMware Released vCenter Operations Manager for View (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof)
VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It enables desktop administrators to proactively ensure the best end-user experience, avert...
May 16, 2012 VMware Released New View 5.1 Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iPad, and Android (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof)
VMware View Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iPad, and Android allow you to connect to your VMware View virtual desktop from your device of choice giving you on-the-go access from any location. VMware View Client for Mac     VMware View Client...
May 16, 2012 VMware Released View 5.1 and Launched Horizon Application Manager 1.5 (Eric Sloof - 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/
May 16, 2012 Sorry Microsoft; Not Only Does vSphere Cost Less to Buy, It Also Costs Less to Operate. (Virtual Reality - Virtual Reality)
Microsoft’s wildly exaggerated claims of providing a less expensive virtualization platform than VMware vSphere have been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on the web lately. We’ve previously pointed out the flaws in their math and our public...
May 16, 2012 A week in virtualization (VMTN Blog - VMTN Blog)
Yesterday, we’ve announced the vFabric Suite 5.1 , which features automated deployment, new components, and open source support. I’ve always had a soft spot for open source software in my heart, and am glad to see the vFabric team showing it some love....
May 16, 2012 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...
May 16, 2012 NAS Troubles III (Unexpected - Tim Verbist)
Eureka! Er is licht aan het einde van de tunnel , denk ik. Het voorbije weekend heb ik nog wat zitten prullen met de instellingen van de iOmga NAS en als bij wonder wil het ding terug een “propere” shutdown uitvoeren. ...
May 16, 2012 CCNA – 4 – Applications (PlanetVM - Howarth, Rimmer, van Antwerpen & Mittell)
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May 16, 2012 VMware View Evaluator's Guide (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof)
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May 16, 2012 Configure the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) in vSphere 5 (IVOBEERENS.NL - Ivo Beerens)
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)is a vendor-neutral open standard discovery protocol that is supported by multiple vendors such as Cisco, HP and Juniper for example. LLDP displays for example on what network switch and port the NIC in the ESXi hosts...
May 15, 2012 Get 50 Horizon AppManager Licenses for FREE! (That's my View - Christoph Harding)
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May 15, 2012 Database workload testing with Dell DVD Store (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof)
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May 15, 2012 Software Defined Data Center: From Best Effort to 99% (VMware vSphere Blog - VMware vSphere Blog)
Posted by Matt Dreyer ...
May 15, 2012 VMware might announce next release of vSphere at VMworld (vClouds - Marco Broeken)
It seems very likely VMware will announce a new version of VMware vSphere at VMworld USA. ...
May 15, 2012 Google Datacenter (Unexpected - Tim Verbist)
Indrukwekkend hoe ze bij Google met je data omgaan. De moeite om eens te bekijken dus. ...
May 15, 2012 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...
May 15, 2012 VMware might announce next release of vSphere at VMworld 2012 (UP2V - Marcel van den Berg)
It seems very likely VMware will announce a new version of VMware vSphere at VMworld USA. ...
May 15, 2012 London VMUG May 2012 (TheSaffaGeek - Gregg Robertson)
Just a very quick posting to remind anyone around the south of England or who is willing to come to the south of England for it that the next London VMware User Group (LonVMUG)  is happening THIS Thursday the 17th of May. Also my fellow vExpert,...
May 15, 2012 Wish I had a whiteboard desk (Virtual-Blog.com - David Hill)
Frank Denneman wrote a great article “Whiteboard desk” demonstrating his whiteboard desk, and frankly I think it is awesome!  Once I have established where I am going to live next, I will also be purchasing an Ikea kitchen worktop. Frank has asked in his...

VMworld News & Coverage

May 18, 2012 VMware: The Data Center That Was Built by Software - CloudTimes
VMware: The Data Center That Was Built by Software CloudTimes Steve Herrod will be providing exposition on VMware's plans for software defined datacenters at VMworld in August. As expected, VMware's vision is appealing and the company...
May 7, 2012 DynamicOps Awarded US Patent for End-to-End Management of Virtual and Physical ... - MarketWatch (press release)
DynamicOps Awarded US Patent for End-to-End Management of Virtual and Physical ... MarketWatch (press release) "That the issuance of this patent follows record-setting customer adoption, as well as recognition from top influencers such as Gartner...
May 1, 2012 Zerto Wins Red Herring Europe Award - MarketWatch (press release)
Zerto Wins Red Herring Europe Award MarketWatch (press release) The company has been previously named Best of Show at VMworld 2011 and received a Gold award in the Business Continuity and Data Protection category, also at VMworld . Zerto received a...
May 14, 2012 DynamicOps Cloud Suite Selected as 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Finalist - MarketWatch (press release)
DynamicOps Cloud Suite Selected as 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Finalist MarketWatch (press release) Enterprises boost IT efficiency and easily embrace consumerization by empowering users with personalized, instantly available services. Awarded...
May 10, 2012 What's Next From VMware: CTO Steve Herrod - InformationWeek
GigaOM What's Next From VMware: CTO Steve Herrod InformationWeek Asked how close we are to a software-defined data center today, Herrod said VMware customers will talk about the steps they've taken to achieve one at VMworld in San Francisco at...
May 14, 2012 DynamicOps Cloud Suite Selected as 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Finalist - PR Newswire (press release)
DynamicOps Cloud Suite Selected as 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Finalist PR Newswire (press release) Enterprises boost IT efficiency and easily embrace consumerization by empowering users with personalized, instantly available services. Awarded...
May 10, 2012 StorSimple Cloud-integrated Enterprise Storage Connects Enterprises to HP ... - MarketWatch (press release)
StorSimple Cloud-integrated Enterprise Storage Connects Enterprises to HP ... MarketWatch (press release) StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent "Certified for Windows Server 2008" and VMware Ready certifications, and was named...
May 8, 2012 For Acorda Therapeutics, disaster recovery protects vital enterprise assets ... - ZDNet (blog)
For Acorda Therapeutics, disaster recovery protects vital enterprise assets ... ZDNet (blog) Bauer: It all really started at VMworld . That's been a fantastic way for me to learn what's out there, what's coming up, and just staying in the...
May 3, 2012 VMWare announces View 5.1 for post-PC era - ARNnet
VMWare announces View 5.1 for post-PC era ARNnet VMware Australia and New Zealand systems engineers account manager, Tim Hartman, said the journey to View 5.1 started last year at the company's VMworld event, where a three stage approach was...
Apr 24, 2012 VMware Acquires Big Data Startup Cetas Software - Windows IT Pro (blog)
Windows IT Pro (blog) VMware Acquires Big Data Startup Cetas Software Windows IT Pro (blog) Back at VMworld 2008, Windows IT Pro Technical Director Michael Otey and I interviewed VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz and asked him how he intended to...