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Recently I’ve been introduced to and have been rolling out DevonIT’s VDI Blaster at one of Xtravirt’s customer sites to temporarily enable VDI connectivity whilst still having the ability to boot back into the normal OS should any problems arise. So...
AppSync is a great update mechanism for certain use cases ( more information on the AppSync feature can be found here ). When you have deployed a new version is it very likely you want to perform a new thinreg registration on the package. AppSync has...
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer Our documentation team just posted the vCloud API Reference HTML version online. This was previously only available as a download zip file. You can now browse the vCloud API Reference under the v...
By Tina de Benedictis, Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop ...
Feb 7, 2012
VMware announces vCloud Integration Manager for service providers (UP2V - Marcel van den Berg)
VMware announced a new software tool named vCloud Integration Manager aimed at service providers. The tool enables service providers to provision vCloud Director, vSphere and vShield more quickly then the current method of deploying which is a manual...
Feb 7, 2012
Guest Blog: Shawn Hart, Lead Developer at Bullet Proof Orange (VMware Fusion Blog - Team Fusion)
We are constantly hearing from developers that VMware Fusion is an essential tool in their development process. So we thought it would be cool to invite a few of them to share their stories. In this post we spoke to Shawn Hart, Lead Developer for Bullet...
Feb 7, 2012
It Starts Here - VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2012 (VMware vCloud Blog - VMware vCloud Blog)
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I have to admit it. I stole, or rather “borrowed”, part of this title from a blog post of a colleague of mine, Erik Zandboer . He just now published a post on the mindset behind VAAI , and what the actual effect is on the array itself, and on your...
Today I was playing around with building some virtual ESXi hosts and could not get one of them onto the network. I tried everything I could through the console UI, but knew I had to enable the ESXi shell command line to do some further digging. These...
Kyle Gleed, Sr Technical Marketing Manager, VMware ...
I was playing around in my lab with NFS datastores today. I wanted to fail-over a replicated NFS datastore without the need to re-register the virtual machines running on them. I had mounted the NFS datastore using the IP address and as that is used to...
Many customers are building private or public clouds. Intrinsic to cloud computing is having multiple tenants with numerous applications using the cloud infrastructure. Each of these tenants and applications needs to be logically isolated from each...
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Today, VMware is announcing new software designed specifically for our service provider partners called vCloud Integration Manager. We developed Integration Manager to provide a simple and standardized way for service providers to provision vCloud...
Frank Denneman, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware ...
On my blog article for yesterday “Rob M” commented that the default affinity rule for Storage DRS (SDRS), keep VM files together, did not make sense to him. One of the reasons this affinity rule is set is because customers indicated that from an...
You probably have heard about Google+, but most people haven't really checked out this new social network. Google+ has some of the good qualities of both Twitter and Facebook, and it could turn out to be quite a nice way for IT professionals interested...
Hosts John Troyer Alex Maier ...
Feb 6, 2012
Data (Unexpected - Tim Verbist)
Hoe meer data je hebt, hoe meer de noodzaak voor een goed systeem om alles een plaats te geven. Backups, documenten, foto’s, bookmarks, text-files, slidedecks,… you name it. De tijd van megabytes is al lang vervlogen. Zelfs gigabytes beginnen...
It's time for another grand giveaway from kendrickcoleman.com! I have more gear and swag this time so get ready to cast your entry. ...
Recently, there were some changes made to VMware blog site. ...
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer ...
Feb 6, 2012
Technical Whitepaper - VMware vSphere VMFS-5 Upgrade Considerations (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL - Eric Sloof)
VMware vSphere 5.0 introduced a new version of the flagship vSphere Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) known as VMFS-5. VMFS-5 offers a variety of new features, including:...
The deadline is fast approaching - Tuesday, February 7. The bloggers that talk about VMware, virtualization and cloud computing (see a subset over at Planet V12n ) work hard and bring a lot of value to their readers. ...
Feb 6, 2012
VMware Workstation 8 as an Alternative to VMware Server (VMware Workstation Zealot - Workstation Zealot)
Are you still using VMware Server? Now is the time to consider VMware Workstation 8 as an alternative. In June 2011 VMware ended support for VMware Server and while you are free to continue using VMware Server, you will no longer gain the benefits...
Cisco recently launched a number of new products and new versions of products aimed at showing Cisco’s dedication and innovation in network switching. You can get Cisco’s summary of the products here . I’ll start with the hardware-focused...
Feb 6, 2012
What to Expect at VMware Partner Exchange 2012 (VMware vCloud Blog - VMware vCloud Blog)
With all the great sessions and events taking place at VMware Partner Exchange, we thought it would be helpful to give a rundown of what attendees can expect at PEX 2012. We’ll be on-site at the show, providing photos, videos, and live-tweets straight...
Feb 6, 2012
(S)DRS (anti-) affinity rule types and HA interoperability (frankdenneman.nl - Frank Denneman)
Lately I have received many questions about the interoperability between HA and affinity rules of DRS and SDRS. I’ve created a table listing the (anti-) affinity rules available in a vSphere 5.0 environment. ...
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Feb 7, 2012
Veeam Software Reports Record-Breaking Year in 2011 - EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Veeam Software Reports Record-Breaking Year in 2011 EON: Enhanced Online News (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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Feb 1, 2012
Marc Farley Joins StorSimple to Lead Customer Community Growth - MarketWatch (press release)
Marc Farley Joins StorSimple to Lead Customer Community Growth MarketWatch (press release) StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent "Certified for Windows Server 2008" and VMware Ready certifications, and was named the Microsoft...
