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  • PowerCLI 4.0 U1 is out!

    Carter Shanklin
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:18 pm
    Tonight we released PowerCLI 4.0 U1. This release contains more than 60 new cmdlets as well as greatly improved performance, a new feature to make it easy to manage multiple ESX or vCenter servers from a single window and much, much more. We’ve also put our cmdlet reference online. Watch this space over the next few days for demo videos but in the meantime don’t forget to download and give it a try.

  • “Project Onyx” is here.

    Carter Shanklin
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:14 pm
    A few months ago we announced a very exciting new application we call “Project Onyx”. To put it simply, Project Onyx is a script recorder for vSphere Client. Since then my inbox has been flooded with requests from all over the world from people wanting to try Onyx. At long last we’ve released our first public alpha. Here’s a video that shows a quick demo of using the alpha build. You can also download Project Onyx. There are two things to note when you’re using Onyx. First, the code Onyx generates makes heavy use of direct API calls rather than PowerCLI cmdlets. So even…

  • San Diego VMUG October 2009 Recap

    Carter Shanklin
    28 Oct 2009 | 12:06 pm
    If you didn’t manage to make it to the San Diego VMUG you missed a pretty good show. Darin Pendergraft from Quest was there showing off EcoShell and I had cooked up a couple of demos of my own. One of the more popular topics was a script I wrote to determine LUN latencies and the VMs that are writing to particular LUNs. One of the trickiest challenges when adopting virtualization is the effective use and partitioning of shared resources. Technologies like VMware DRS address exactly this challenge, but it’s safe to say that we’re still nearer the beginning than the end when it comes to…

  • Come see PowerCLI at the San Diego VMUG, October 22 2009

    Carter Shanklin
    15 Oct 2009 | 1:59 pm
    If you’re in the San Diego area next week don’t miss the San Diego VMUG because I, your humble servant, will grace you with my presence and the vast stores of wisdom one only obtains through thousands of lonely nights in front of the computer. I’ll be there to talk about – what else, PowerCLI and how it will help you automate your way to bliss. As always I’ll be spending a lot of time on hands-on demos that will give you a first hand feel for what PowerCLI is and how it works. I’ll be covering reporting, provisioning and storage management, three of the most popular topics among…

  • When was the last time that VM was powered on?

    Carter Shanklin
    5 Oct 2009 | 8:57 pm
    People often want to know the last time that a VM was powered on. Unfortunately there is no completely fool-proof way to figure this out using just vCenter or ESX, but PowerCLI offers an approach that is pretty good, good enough that you can create a simple report and identify VMs that may be ready for that big hypervisor in the sky. This is also a popular topic on the PowerCLI community, where LucD offers a solution to the problem, which relies on using events to determine when the poweron took place. Since Luc gave this solution a few things have happened: The bug that caused Get-VIEvent to…
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  • Great intro to vSphere

    Guy Brunsdon
    30 Nov 2009 | 7:39 pm
    Have you ever tried to explain or justify virtualization to someone, but walked away feeling they didn’t quite get it? e.g. your boss, or maybe someone else that needs to “get it” for you to get your job done. Here’s a great video that is crisp, concise and hits all the main points in an easy to understand way. (yes, I know it’s not strictly networking, but I thought this was really useful)

  • Formation of VCE coalition

    Guy Brunsdon
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:40 am
    The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition was announced this morning. This is a coalition between Cisco and EMC, together with VMware to accelerate customers’ ability to increase business agility. Apart from bringing a single point of contact for design, service, and support, the coalition introduces the notion of the “Vblock Infrastructure Packages.” These are ready-to-go infrastructure packages that are fully tested, integrated and validated. You can find more information (presentations, papers, videos, etc) at: Press Release Cisco’s VCE Coalition page EMC’s VCE Coalition…

  • Special new ways to manage, monitor and configure virtual networks

    Guy Brunsdon
    9 Oct 2009 | 12:20 pm
    vSphere has SDKs and APIs for just about every component, feature and product (including the new vCloud API!). Just take a look at the VMware developer site. This is a powerful adjunct to vSphere enabling extremely powerful virtualization solutions. But this is a networking blog, so let’s talk about the vNetwork API. This is already a powerful toolset enabling you to extend the capabilities of your network. But we’re not stopping there. Those of you who caught Howie Xu’s (Director, R&D) presentation at VMworld would have caught a glimpse of how we are enhancing monitoring,…

  • Blogging contest around the vNetwork Distributed Switch

    Guy Brunsdon
    5 Oct 2009 | 1:03 pm
    Apologies for the long time between posts, but this might get a few of you interested… Through to the end of this week, we are running a blogging contest around vDS (a.k.a. the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch). All you have to do is blog about a novel technical or business ROI topic around vDS. Once you have posted your blog entry, send an email to vmtn@vmware.com to submit the entry for consideration. Remember, you have until Friday October 9, so get your thinking cap on and write away! You can find more information on the competition at this entry at the VMware vSphere Blog. You can…

  • VMworld is almost here … here are your must attend networking sessions

    Guy Brunsdon
    26 Aug 2009 | 9:02 pm
    **updated 8/27 to include room numbers!** VMworld is upon us next week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We have a fantastic assortment of sessions from beginner level right up to the very advanced—something for everyone. Breakout Sessions As usual, we have a good assortment of networking sessions hosted by ourselves and our partners. I’ve listed the sessions in chronological order (I’m presenting the first two and then I’m done!). Srinivas Neginhal’s “VMware vSphere 4 Networking Deep Dive” (TA2525) is a 90-minute session and is also repeated at Thursday at 4:00pm. Session…
 
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  • VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Performance and Best Practices White Paper Posted

    Aalap Desai
    5 Dec 2009 | 2:12 am
    VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is a component of VMware Infrastructure that ensures a speedy and successful datacenter recoveryby automating the recovery process and eliminating the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans. A new white paper, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Performance and Best Practices, is now available at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-vCenter-SRM-WP-EN.pdf You can also find it under the technical resources section at http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/resource.html In this paper we discuss VMware vCenter Site…

  • SAP Performance and Scalability with IBM System x3850 M2 and vSphere 4

    Ken Barr
    1 Dec 2009 | 1:49 pm
    Back in June, I wrote about some scale-up experiments that we conducted with SAP software on vSphere 4.  That work focused on a single VM, so we decided to follow it up with a study of multiple VMs on a single server.  Collaborating with IBM, we performed experiments to study the scale-out behavior of SAP software: using vSphere 4 to run multiple VMs on a 24-core IBM x3850 M2.  We presented this joint work at VMworld 2009 (EA 1640), and have recently written a whitepaper that contains the results:…

  • Performance Study of VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning

    Mandar Kulkarni
    16 Nov 2009 | 4:48 pm
    vStorage Thin Provisioning, a key component of VMware vSphere™, is a technology that redefines storage provisioning by allocating space on demand to the virtual disks. We recently published a paper that gives the details of this feature and discusses experiments conducted to study the performance of thin-provisioned disks in a VMware vSphere™ environment.The data we have collected reveals Both thin and thick disks perform similarly on various workloads. Thin provisioned disks show similar performance trends as thick disks do when scaled across different hosts. External fragmentation has…

  • Storage performance improvements in vSphere 4.0

    Devaki Kulkarni
    20 Oct 2009 | 4:17 pm
    We made a huge number of performance improvements in vSphere 4.0. The ESX storage stack was no exception. We ran a wide variety of micro and real world benchmarks to thoroughly evaluate and optimize vSphere’s storage subsystem. It is now even more efficient for the enterprise and ready to support the cloud. A wide variety of I/O intensive applications will run efficiently on vSphere with all the improvements.  You can find details on the architectural changes and storage performance improvements made in this white paper. Some of the noteworthy improvements are:…

  • Comparing Performance of 1vCPU Nehalem VM with 2vCPU Harpertown VM

    Todd Muirhead
    21 Sep 2009 | 2:09 pm
    vSphere has a new feature called Fault Tolerance that allows for a VM to be running in vLockstep on two physical servers at the same time.  In the event of a failure of the primary VM, the secondary VM will immediately take over with no downtime for the VM.  There is a great whitepaper that covers FT architecture and performance.  There have also been a couple of blog posts on VROOM! recently that cover FT performance as well.  One uses VMmark to show how FT has excellent performance in a heavily loaded multi workload environment.  The other blog post shows how…
 
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  • openQRM lives on !

    Kris Buytaert
    15 Dec 2009 | 12:43 pm
    Good news for openQRM, Matt Rechenburg, the openQRM team lead just wrote in that he founded openQRM Enterprise GmbH, together with some core members of the openQRM Team, openQRM Enterprise is now the new main sponsor and support company behind the openQRM Open Source Data Center Management and Cloud Computing [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Spice up your Virtual Desktop

    Kris Buytaert
    10 Dec 2009 | 11:59 am
    When RedHat acquired Qumranet about 15 months ago lots of people realized that RedHat’s good practice of Open Sourcing everything they do might be a difficult task for the Qumranet software. And indeed, RedHat has been critised a lot for having a Windows only management framework for their Qumranet based technologies and for not [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Gluster announces Gluster Storage Platform

    Kris Buytaert
    9 Dec 2009 | 3:31 am
    The folks over at Gluster , dropped in the news that they are releasing their Gluster Storage platform, “By integrating the GlusterFS file system with an operating system layer and improved management user interface, Gluster provides a complete storage software platform that simplifies the task of deploying petabyte-scale storage to two installation steps and a [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Chelsio Introduces Virtual Multi-Port Software Driver

    Robin Wauters
    4 Dec 2009 | 10:20 am
    Chelsio Communications, provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking and storage solutions, today announced Virtual Multi-port Software, a new driver that gives users of VMware ESX 4.0 the flexibility for virtual consolidation of existing Gigabit links over Chelsio 10Gb Unified Wire adapters. Virtual Multi-port Software allows for consolidation of switch ports and cabling by using 10Gb... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Sourcefire Launches 3D System 4.9 and VMware-Based Virtual Appliances

    Robin Wauters
    3 Dec 2009 | 8:23 am
    Sourcefire has announced the general availability of the Sourcefire 3D System 4.9 release. The company has also released its first VMware-based virtual appliances to extend IPS protection to virtualized systems and remote office locations. Sourcefire’s innovative Adaptive IPS automates key intrusion prevention functions, such as IPS tuning, impact assessment, user correlation and network... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • IT hardware sales poised for small recovery after disastrous 2009 - Computerworld

    15 Dec 2009 | 2:32 pm
    IT hardware sales poised for small recovery after disastrous 2009ComputerworldVirtualization, both for servers and storage, can reduce the amount of hardware IT shops need to run business applications. Most virtual servers are created and more »

  • Expand Networks Virtual Accelerator: VDI, Application Virtualization and the WAN - DABCC.com

    15 Dec 2009 | 2:12 pm
    Expand Networks Virtual Accelerator: VDI, Application Virtualization and the WANDABCC.comIf you have ever read any of my blogs relating to desktop or application virtualization then I'm sure you know how much I like to preach about the Desktop virtualization and Windows 7ZDNet (blog)Desktop virtualization: Will Windows 7 change the game?ComputerworldWill desktop virtualization go mainstream in 2010?ITWorld CanadaIDG -SearchWinIT.com -Linux Magazine (registration) (blog)all 31 news articles »

  • Why Isn't Server Virtualization Saving Us More? A Few Small Changes May ... - TechRepublic

    15 Dec 2009 | 1:57 pm
    Why Isn't Server Virtualization Saving Us More? A Few Small Changes May TechRepublicOverview: Companies have rapidly adopted server virtualization over the past few years, but there are big differences in their use of the technology. Virtualization: Architectural Considerations And Other Evaluation CriteriaTechRepublicFive Steps to Determine When to Virtualize yourserversTechRepublicEvaluating Price/Performance of vmware ESX Server on Dell poweredge ServersTechRepublicTechRepublic -TechRepublicall 117 news articles »

  • Citrix Debuts Disaster Recovery App - PC World

    15 Dec 2009 | 1:01 pm
    SYS-CON Media (press release)Citrix Debuts Disaster Recovery AppPC WorldCitrix has developed disaster recovery software that uses Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology to help automate and Can Citrix, Microsoft put a dent in vmware? (and is storage the hammer?)Infostor magazine (blog)Citrix, Microsoft Partner to Offer Disaster Recovery for Virtual EnvironmentseWeekCitrix Enables Business Continuity for Microsoft Hyper-V CustomersFOXBusinessall 21 news articles »

  • Virtualization Adoption on the Decline - Server Watch

    15 Dec 2009 | 12:17 pm
    Virtualization Adoption on the DeclineServer WatchRecent research from both Gartner and IDC found virtualization adoption rates slowing down. Is it a sign of more economic gloom or industry Virtualization Adoption Slips: More Gloom for IT?DatamationVirtualization Adoption ...InternetNews.comall 4 news articles »
 
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  • Are Business IT Investment ROI Expectations Making Virtual Desktop Projects Harder To Do?

    7 Dec 2009 | 9:00 pm
    I spend a lot of my time talking to CIOs, CTOs, and business-side executives and how to better integrate IT into the strategic fabric of organizations. I was having a discussion recently with an IT executive from a major corporation around his expectation of virtual desktops and he made a statement that started me thinking; his business executives are requiring a six month, or sometimes less, return-on-investment (ROI) on significant IT projects, "can a virtual desktop project give me tha...

  • DynamicOps Integrates Virtual Resource Manager with BMC Blade Logic Ops Manager

    7 Dec 2009 | 8:00 pm
    I wrote about DynamicOps back in October when I highlighted them as one of my 2009 VMWorld vendors to watch. On Monday, DynamicOps announced that they have integrated their Virtual Resource Manager with BMC's Blade Logic Ops Manager product. DynamicOps has now increased its options in helping its customers in automating the deployment of OS images and applications in a standard and consistent manner thereby increasing agility and reducing TCO in customer environments....

  • Citrix XenDesktop 4 Licensing: Some Q&A

    24 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Everyone has been very focused on the licensing changes around XenDesktop 4 recently, including me. I took some time to do some digging recently based on numerous customer inquiries and I wanted to share some of the most popular questions and answers. ...

  • Citrix and Microsoft: It's No Love-fest In The Field

    24 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm
    We have all heard many times over that Citrix and Microsoft are the best of friends and the relationship between the two market leaders is all roses. Well that may be the case at the corporate level, but it's a completely different story down on the field level where "the rubber meets the road" and customers are involved....

  • Why Information Technology to Business Technology Is Taking Longer Than Expected?

    22 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    It's mainly around Forrester Research's CEO George Colony who has a quest, as I do, to transform "information technology" to "business technology". George, and his team of analysts at Forrester, think that it's as simple as a name change that will help power this transformation. Just changing a name won't do it, there needs to be a vision and then solid execution from the CIO all the way down to the most junior server admin....
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  • Growl Notifications with Snow Leopard Mail and Exchange

    slowe
    10 Dec 2009 | 7:55 am
    Like many Mac users, I use Growl to provide customizable, centralized notifications for events occurring on my system. Rather than use the Growl team’s GrowlMail plug-in, I use a custom AppleScript that I wrote that provide new message notifications via Growl. It’s not a terribly advanced script; it just provides per-message notifications for each message received, unless I receive more than 5 messages at a time in which case the script just provides a summary notification. It’s worked very well for me for quite some time. Now, following my upgrade to a new MacBook Pro…

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    10 Dec 2009 | 12:00 am
    IPAM Freeware Download This free IPAM tool from InfoBlox is a virtual machine designed to help manage IP addressing.

  • Snow Leopard, Time Machine, and Iomega ix4-200d

    slowe
    9 Dec 2009 | 8:10 pm
    Chad Sakac of EMC (visit his weblog here) recently sent me an Iomega ix4-200d storage unit. Considering that I didn’t need it for my VMware lab—which runs both EMC and NetApp storage arrays—I pressed it into service at home. I can’t tell you how useful it’s been, especially the built-in Time Machine support. Making my three-year-old MacBook Pro running Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) work with the Iomega’s Time Machine implementation was a piece of cake: point it at the ix4-200d and you’re all set. It’s been great. Recently, though, I picked up a new…

  • VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference Now Available

    slowe
    9 Dec 2009 | 3:07 pm
    This afternoon UPS delivered to my door a box full of copies of my latest book, written in partnership with Jase McCarty and Matthew Johnson. VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference is a hands-on how-to guide for vSphere administrators. The book will be especially helpful for newer administrators who are still learning their way around VMware vSphere and the vSphere Client, but I think even experienced administrators will still find some useful information tucked away here and there. Jase, Matthew, and I worked very hard on this book, and we hope that you find it useful. Generally,…

  • Multiport Uplink Driver

    slowe
    4 Dec 2009 | 10:33 am
    Virtual I/O is getting more attention. This press release from Chelsio crossed my desk this morning: Virtual Multi-port Software allows for consolidation of switch ports and cabling by using 10Gb infrastructure while maintaining the existing Gigabit-based ESX setup. The software enables the consolidation by keeping the infrastructure update completely transparent to the ESX hypervisor, enabling a 10Gb adapter to appear to the hypervisor as eight virtual Gigabit adapters. By offloading the tasks performed by the hypervisor, the Chelsio adapters can deliver the best I/O performance for…
 
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  • DutchVMUG Live blog: Virtualizing Exchange on VMware

    Gabe
    11 Dec 2009 | 3:08 am
    Jan Willem Lammers presenting on Virtualizing Exchange on VMware. First he’s checking with the audience on how many mailboxes they are running virtual. Some run 10.000 mailboxes !!! Is Exchange... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • DutchVMUG Live blog: Eric Sloof Managing vSphere with the virtualization EcoShell

    Gabe
    11 Dec 2009 | 1:57 am
    Next on stage, Eric Sloof. Virtualization EcoShell contains a lot of pre defined filters to show you for example age of snapshots, VMs that are ballooning, etc. EcoShell is free, you can easily add... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Dutch VMUG Live blog (keynote)

    Gabe
    11 Dec 2009 | 12:44 am
    Today we celebrate the Dutch VMUG’s 5th anniversary. Started as a small user group with 55 members, it has now grown to 600 visitors !!! Steve Herrod CTO of VMware speaks to the audience through a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Dutch VMUG dec 11th 2009

    Gabe
    9 Dec 2009 | 5:17 am
    Copied from Eric Sloof’s blog: “Arne Fokkema was the first one to Twitter the #DutchVMUG tag this morning. Someone else has also added the famous words “the countdown has started”, it’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • About ESXi lockdown mode

    Gabe
    30 Nov 2009 | 11:56 am
    When you build your virtual infrastructure with only ESXi hosts that you also lock down for security reasons, you might be in for a little surprise when you want to get your VI up and running again... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • Using PowerShell To Get Content From a File

    On my quest for PowerShell knowledge I was working on a script to rescan HBA's and then to list the paths to the datastores but, I only wanted the script to run on certain specific hosts at a time. Usually the rule is when you add storage or paths to ...

  • vSphere Service Console Partitioning

    There is a very good blog post on the best practices for vSphere (ESX 4) Service Console Partitions by Rich Brambley on the VM /ETC blog.  The original article can be found here.  In this article he had a very nice chart for custom partitioning. Custom Partitioning The following Custom Partitioning Design ...

  • Where to download VMware Cold Clone

    I had the opportunity recently to try to help a friend on his quest to P2V a Microsoft ISA Server.  We tried all sorts of different setting to allow communication between the ISA and in this case both Virtual Center and a Platespin server trying to get either one to ...

  • Let’s Talk About VMware DPM

    Today's topic is going to be about VMware's Distributed Power Management or otherwise known as VMware DPM.  If you have not heard about VMware DPM before, I found an interesting video interview with Anne Holler who works at VMware as a Senior Staff Engineer.  I found this interview at Vladan ...

  • My Thoughts on the VCE Announcement

    It seems the big news for the day is the Announcement of the VCE Coalition.  Seems I have been reading blog posts about this all morning with the last post being Scott Lowe's thoughts on the subject. I have been hearing that this has been in the works for a ...
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  • Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Re-Released

    Christian Mohn
    10 Dec 2009 | 6:12 am
    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 happy that the tool is available again, and that Microsoft "did the right thing ®" and released it with the proper license.

  • ESXi No More Must Have Have!

    Christian Mohn
    25 Nov 2009 | 1:17 pm
    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" - revisited.I'm glad to say we don't need have have any more!

  • Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Revoked?

    Christian Mohn
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:15 am
    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 by a 404 (page not found) error when I tried to download it. The whole information/documentation section was still available on the Microsoft Store site, but the downloadable file was missing. No information was given, so I assumed it was a glitch on Microsofts behalf and located an alternative download site…

  • Howto: Using ExtPart to Expand Windows Server 2003 VM Boot Volume

    Christian Mohn
    28 Oct 2009 | 6:28 am
    Over time the boot partition on a Windows Server 2003 installation might just turn out to be too small. There can be various reasons for this, but the fact remains that over time you will accumulate data on the boot drive that you didn't take account for when you set it up initially.Luckily I run almost all of my servers in a VMware based virtualized environment, where it's easy to expand the the virtual disks. The problem is that Windows Server 2003 doesn't let you easily expand the boot volume, at least not without downtime. I've previously talked about using tools like GParted to expand…

  • Got Windows 7? Got USB device? Get Installed

    Christian Mohn
    22 Oct 2009 | 12:11 pm
    A little while a go I mentioned a great little tool called Novicorp WinToFlash.Seems like Microsoft figured out that was a great little idea, and in conjunction with todays official Windows 7 release, they've also made the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool available.Since you can buy Windows 7 and then download the ISO directly from the new online Microsoft Store (Can anyone say Apple?!) it makes sense that they have created their own little tool that enables you to install Windows 7 from an USB stick. The tool makes it easy to copy the ISO to a USB stick, and then use that to boot your…
 
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  • VMware Red Tag Sale – Save 30% Instantly on Fusion 3 and Workstation 7

    Jas
    1 Dec 2009 | 2:40 am
    VMware Red Tag Sale – Save 30% VMware Fusion 3 The Best Way to Run Windows on your Mac. With over 50 new features, VMware Fusion 3 offers full support for Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, with a 64-bit optimized engine to deliver even faster performance and advanced 3D graphics for the ultimate Windows experience on the Mac. Run Windows. The Mac way. Buy Now! Regular Price: $79.99 Sale Price: $55.99 VMware Workstation 7 The Gold Standard in Desktop Virtualization With support for over 200 operating systems including Windows 7, VMware Workstation delivers the broadest guest platform support…

  • Upgrade from ESX 4 to ESX 4 update 1 with update manager fail

    craig
    25 Nov 2009 | 9:26 pm
    Just found the note from VMware today about the possibility of upgrade fail if you are trying to update you ESX 4 to update 1 with update manager. When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1, you may experience the following symptoms: Update Manager (VUM) upgrade operation fails or times out at 33%. Upon reboot, the host that was being upgraded displays a purple diagnostic screen with the following error:COS Panic: Int3 @ mp_register_ioapi Who is affected Customers using VMware vSphere 4 upgrading to Update 1 with 3rd party management agents running. Solution To avoid this issue,…

  • Running Chrome OS on vSphere Update 1

    Jas
    24 Nov 2009 | 10:49 pm
    Referring to NTPRO Download Chrome OS VMware image post, I’m managed to get Chrome OS running on vSphere update 1 as screen below: Please make sure you have selected Other 2.6x Linux 32bit as per your guest OS. Download Chrome OS VMware Image at http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/ Related posts:Not possible to resize /var/log on vSphere 4 HostvSphere PURPLE screenApply VMware vSphere 4 Update 1 Patches Tags: Chrome, OS, VMDK, vSphere

  • Apply VMware vSphere 4 Update 1 Patches

    Jas
    24 Nov 2009 | 10:12 pm
    VMware ESX 4.0 Update 1(Build 208167) was released on 19 Nov 2009 and I did a patch update on 3 of my vSphere Dev Servers included of 1 ESX (build 164009) server and 2 ESXi (build 164009 & 171294) servers on Dell PE2950 today. The Redhat Linux and Windows 2003 & 2008 Virtual Machines VMware tools upgraded successful and everything look goods after the Update 1 patched. I would suggest you refer to VMware Communities – vSphere Upgrade and Install forum & “vSphere 4u1 – any issues” thread before apply any VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi Update 1 patches on production…

  • VMware vSphere 4 update 1

    craig
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:11 pm
    VMware had officially released the vSphere 4 update 1 yesterday. There are many new support features and also bug fixes. Is time to take a look for a major upgrade this month to overcome some challenges we faced with the previous version. Please view more information from the release note. Beside the bug fixes, there are some new key highlight here too. VMware View 4.0 support This release adds support for VMware View 4.0, a solution built specifically for delivering desktops as a managed service from the protocol to the platform. Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support –Officially Supported…
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  • VCP4 Welcome Kits Shipping!

    15 Dec 2009 | 3:51 am
    Jon C. Hall VMware's Technical Certification Developer reports:VCP4 Welcome Kits will begin shipping Monday, December 14th! As I have posted previously, these kits were delayed due to a rebranding effort that changed the look of both the VCP logo and the Certificates themselves. The reprinting of these materials took much longer than expected, so my apologies to everyone that has had to endure the long wait.The kits should take approximately 10 days to arrive, a bit shorter in some US locations, a bit longer in some International locations.Congratulations to all you VCP4s!

  • VCP3 Deadline

    14 Dec 2009 | 9:47 pm
    December 31, 2009: This is the last day that VCP3s can become VCP4s by simply passing the VCP4 test.  Remember that if you fail a VCP exam, you're required to wait 7 days before taking the test again. Therefore, it’s a good idea to take the test soon, in case you fail the first attempt.January 1, 2010: On this date, anyone who wants to become a VCP4 must not only pass the VCP4 test, but must also take an authorized vSphere 4 class. Most people will need to take “vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage”, or “vSphere 4: Fast Track”, or “vSphere 4: Troubleshooting”. VCP3s have a…
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  • VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Performance and Best Practices White Paper

    Mike Laverick
    11 Dec 2009 | 9:06 am
    VMware the viops blog have released a white paper which discusses stuff you can do to improve performance of the SRM product and its recovery plans. It includes such tips such as: Fewer but larger NFS datastores can help speedup a recovery Specifying a non replicated datastore for swap files will eliminate certain remote calls during a recovery [...]

  • Microsoft release Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1

    Mike Laverick
    11 Dec 2009 | 9:01 am
    Microsoft has released an update to its OVMST (That’s my abbreviation by the way!) It’s really a support refresh that updates the utility to be compatible with all the R2 stuff that’s been coming out of MSFT’s door - together with support for Windows 7 etc. In case you don’t know OVMST handles how VMs get [...]

  • VMware vSphere 4.0 Update1 “A”

    Mike Laverick
    10 Dec 2009 | 1:48 am
    Coming of tweet from Eric Sloof, and from a blog post by Duncan Epping. http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/12/10/esxi-4-0-update-1a/ http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx40u1_a/ZHcqYmRqampiZGUlaA== It looks as if VMware have released a U1-A, another sub-update to their update - shades of Service Pack 1a for Windows? I guess you could say that. The new update address the HP Insight Management Agent upgrade bug that reared its [...]

  • Come over to the darkside - Futher adventures of Mr MBP

    Mike Laverick
    9 Dec 2009 | 11:14 am
    Well, if you follow my blog regularly you will know I recently moved over to the darkside - and acquired a MacBook Pro. According to some I did this just at the wrong time - just as Windows was going to get wonderfully better in the shape of Windows 7. Well, that doesn’t really help [...]

  • New VMware Data Recovery Appliance (vDR)

    Mike Laverick
    9 Dec 2009 | 5:55 am
    VMware has recently re-issued their VDR appliance - that runs as VM to back up VMs. It’s pretty cute, although limited to 100 VMs maximum. http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2009/11/vmware-data-recovery-11-and-file-level-restore.html That URL takes you screen dumps that show the new graphically based “File Level Restore” utility. Don’t get your hopes up too much. It still just mounts a restore point like [...]
 
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  • Why You Shouldn’t Update vCenter If Using ESXi… Yet!

    stu
    13 Dec 2009 | 11:04 am
    Although I did enjoy a brief moment of smugness when the HP related ESX 4 Update 1 problems arose, it was cut short by another issue effecting vCenter 4.0 Update 1 and ESXi. VMware haven’t povided much information about the cause of the problem thus far, there is simply a disclaimer on the Support & Downloads [...]

  • Offline for a few weeks…

    stu
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
    Yes i know, it’s been a while since my last post anyway . In a few days I’ll be heading back to my hometown of Sydney (via Tokyo – I love Japan) for a few weeks, so the internets will be a little less ranty for a little while. And unfortunately, I’ll be missing the [...]

  • ECV – Utility Emerging

    stu
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:51 pm
    Todays announcement from EMC, Cisco and VMware (ECV) amounted to a declaration of war on the datacenter players in the industry as we know it. But it wasn’t the only thing that it amounted to – I see it as the first true sign of utility computing, and if the rest of the industry just [...]

  • Virtual Hardware 7 Undocumented Feature Revealed!

    stu
    2 Nov 2009 | 11:14 am
    So after my last post, VMware did some digging and the real reason for the initially odd behaviour was exposed – it’s a combination of the way Virtual Hardware 7 presents virtual disks to Guests, and the difference in default policy settings of Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. So in [...]

  • Virtual Hardware 7 Bug, Woeful VMware Response

    stu
    29 Oct 2009 | 2:05 pm
    UPDATE This post is actually woefully inaccurate – go read this one instead! I don’t like making posts like this, really i don’t. As much as I’ll sing the praises of VMware ’til I can’t sing no more, I’ll also point out the shortcomings – I don’t turn a blind eye just because I like the [...]
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  • Quite a few updates from VMware incl. vSphere 4.0 Update 1 and View 4.0

    Heino Skov
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:17 am
    View 4 available for download among other updates… The long awaited View 4 is available for download. The earlier version did not support vSphere 4.0 and this new version of View 4 does. It requires VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 1 which also now is available. So for all that was running View 3.1 in Proof of Concept which required VI 3.5, it would now be possible to upgrade your VMware platform with both vSphere 4.0 Update 1 – which also got released this week. So there have been quite a few updates from VMware this week: VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 1 available for both ESX and vCenter…

  • My Company, BusinessMann A/S won VMware Partner of the Year 2009 award in Denmark

    Heino Skov
    13 Nov 2009 | 5:32 am
    I attended a local party held by Arrow ECS in Copenhagen last night, and several awards were given out during the party. One award stood out to me, of course, which this blog post is about. My company was nominated in the category of VMware Partner of the Year in Denmark with 3 other of our competitors. The happy news was that BusinessMann A/S won the VMware Partner of the Year 2009 award, which makes me really proud. First of all, thanks to VMware for giving BusinessMann A/S this award and thanks to all my collogues for the hard work in 2009. Also thanks to Arrow ECS for a great party

  • VMware announces VMware View 4

    Heino Skov
    9 Nov 2009 | 6:09 am
    VMware has today announced the new VMware View 4 platform for virtualizing desktops on their own VMware vSphere platform. So yes, VMware View 4 has support for VMware vSphere 4.0. It is built and tested on the latest VMware vSphere 4.0 releases It has been a while since VMware announced the partnership with Teradici to use their PCoIP protocol within VMware View for improved user multimedia experience. This is a huge upgrade from the current RDP protocol, which VMware used in prior versions of View I have watched a few demo’s of Teradici’s PCoIP protocol and has been pretty…

  • VMs NIC disconnects after a VMotion

    Heino Skov
    6 Nov 2009 | 11:49 pm
    I had a customer calling me the other day about a weird problem. Some VMs disconnected their NIC after a VMotion. It was not possible to connect the NIC back on a again The customer was in the process of upgrading to vSphere, so used DRS/VMotion to put ESX hosts in maintenance mode, so they could be upgraded. After looking in log files, we saw the following errors: ————Edited/output ———— 6 10:19:21 esx1 vmkernel: 0:20:07:45.197 cpu3:6256)Net: 1317: can’t connect device: LAN: Out of resources 6 10:24:03 esx1 vmkernel: 0:20:12:27.267…

  • vCalendar Widget added to Virtualtroll.com

    Heino Skov
    10 Sep 2009 | 3:54 pm
    Jason Boche over at http://www.boche.net/blog/ came up with an initiative to create a vCalendar. Its quite nice and if I had a work with a personal desktop, I would certainly try to get one of these. Instead I did the 2nd best option, because Jason also made a vCalendar Widget. I have now added this widget to my blog, so the dailiy tips, tricks, comments etc is shown on virtualtroll.com. So now you just need to come back here to virtualtroll to read the daily virtualization quote of the day Read more about it here Thanks to Jason for this initiative.
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  • XenDesktop on VMware VI/vSphere

    Sven Huisman
    15 Dec 2009 | 1:53 pm
    As I was playing around with XenDesktop 4, I had some trouble connecting the Citrix Desktop Delivery Controller to the vCenter server. And as 95% of Xendesktop deployments are on VMware VI or vSphere, I thought this tip could be useful for you as wel. What I was asked to do when creating a desktop [...]

  • Large locally attached storage

    Johan van Zanten
    14 Dec 2009 | 12:27 am
    We all know that ESX supports LUNs / Disks up to 2TB (minus a few kb) but what happens when a larger locally attached disk is connected to a host? This is what  I have noticed when I tried to create a large volume on my own ESX white box with more than 2TB locally attached [...]

  • VMware View 4 linkage

    Sven Huisman
    3 Dec 2009 | 11:59 am
    VMware View 4 was released nearly 2 weeks ago and I thought it could be useful to sum up all the interesting links for VMware View 4. I might add some more links the in the next couple of weeks, but I think this is a good start. Please comment if you have another good [...]

  • December 11th: Dutch VMUG event!

    Sven Huisman
    25 Nov 2009 | 11:46 am
    This year on December 11th, the biggest VMware event in the Netherlands will take place for the fifth time! The lineup of presenters is very good, check out the agenda, lot’s of “famous” people from the virtualization community are on the list and over 600 VMware enthousiastics will be watching them. One of the sessions I [...]

  • Introduction to Citrix XenDesktop 4 [BlogBattle]

    Matthijs Haverink
    23 Nov 2009 | 12:28 pm
    Citrix last week released their Virtual Desktop product named Citrix XenDesktop 4. For Citrix it is the 3rd (have you ever seen 1.0 ?) generation of their VDI product. As part of the VDI Blog Battle. I’ll be using this post to update you on the architecture and basic info concerning Citrix XenDesktop 4. What is Citrix XenDesktop [...]
 
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  • VIDEO: Using VMware GO

    David Davis
    3 Dec 2009 | 5:42 am
    Checkout my new video from Train Signal where I cover how to use VMware GO to install VMware ESXi, perform P2V conversions, and manage your ESXi virtual infrastructure. . more...

  • What is Windows Azure?

    David Davis
    30 Nov 2009 | 5:50 pm
    Microsoft is promoting the heck out of their new cloud computing solution - Azure - right now but there are still a lot of questions about it. Here is a simple video that attempts to explain how Azure works, in plain English.... . more...

  • VMware vSphere for SMBs - slick video

    David Davis
    29 Nov 2009 | 5:22 pm
    Here is a slick video that introduces VMware vSphere to SMBs - nice quality! . more...

  • Is VDI Less Expensive than Traditional PCs to purchase?

    Jason Conger
    29 Nov 2009 | 10:16 am
    Since VDI came on the scene, there has been a lot of noise touting VDI as cheaper to maintain than traditional PCs. This cost of maintainability is often referred to as Operating Expenditure (or, OpEx for short). No one really argues with the statement that VDI lowers OpEx, but traditionally, VDI has been more expensive to initially buy into (Capital Expenditure - or, CapEx for short). more...

  • VMware View versus Citrix XenDesktop

    Jason Conger
    29 Nov 2009 | 9:44 am
    VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop compete head to head in the VDI space. But, when it comes to value, which product is better? A lot of people have attempted to answer this question. Bridget Botelho voiced some eloquent points on this question recently in an article. more...
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  • Zeus is in the clouds…a security dilemma for Amazon

    Chris Orr
    14 Dec 2009 | 11:58 am
    Apparently I am going to have to add Greek and Roman gods to my pantheon of characters inhabiting my verse.  It seems that in the push for cloud computing, the fears of some have come true…  According to Dancho Danchev here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5110&tag=nl.e550 a new variant of Zeus Crimeware is leveraging Amazon’s EC2 for control of its bots.  IT Ninja’s should probably look fairly closely at these developments before committing company resources.  Risk Assessment and mitigation will be the key elements of any cloud computing strategy going…

  • My prediction: there will be no "year of the cloud"

    Dwayne Melancon
    8 Dec 2009 | 4:02 pm
    I just got an email talking about "the year of the cloud." I call shenanigans. You see, I remember back in the olden days (back in the 1980’s) when magazines and industry luminaries would regularly declare each year to be "the year of the LAN."  And none of them ever were "the year of the LAN." I think the cloud is something that will become an entrenched part of business gradually - not in a burst of glory.  Why? Here are a few of the reasons I see: "Let someone else go first." Before vast herds of businesses go running to the cloud (a…

  • The little things will kill you

    Dwayne Melancon
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:10 pm
    My cohort Gene Kim and I were in San Francisco meeting with a number of journalists yesterday.  We were discussing trends, virtualization, IT risks, and things of that sort and everyone wanted to know about what new risks, threats, etc. were going to be a problem in the next year. Everyone wanted to know about the next big thing, but the fact of the matter is that most of our IT problems will come from little things, and not some big “happening.”  The things that will bite us will be the things that always bite us.  And they are all rooted in what I like to call “IT…

  • Really? A LinkedIn invite from Bill Gates? How cool am I!?

    Chris Orr
    30 Oct 2009 | 11:30 am
    Seriously though…when an experimental phishing attack was tested against anti-spam and phishing filters it succeeded 100 percent of the time. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4791&tag=nl.e539 Can you imagine if it were real?  I wonder how many people would really think that Bill Gates is taking personal time to send you (no matter how cool you think you are) an invitation to be part of his network?  Some times you have to wonder.  And one it succeeded either your LinkedIn account would be owned or some nasty malware would begin to percolate through your corporate network. Boy…

  • Clouds gain steam as LA votes to go Google…

    Chris Orr
    29 Oct 2009 | 10:37 am
    Boy I do hope they get this right… any security issues will be problematic for the millions of folks being served by city of Los Angeles.  It will certainly raise the profile of cloud computing enough to get the attention of the Pirates that are out their…. Google’s IT Ninjas better be up to the task… http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=26641&tag=nl.e550 “Clearly, this is a big deal for the city of Los Angeles. But this vote is also monumental for cloud computing as a whole, which has gained popularity and widespread interest but still relatively little adoption…
 
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  • Holiday gift ideas for VMware administrators

    Eric Siebert
    14 Dec 2009 | 2:47 pm
    It’s the holiday season again and last year I wrote about stocking stuffer ideas for VMware administrators, so I thought I would do the same this year. Do you need some ideas on what to get a dedicated hardworking VMware administrator for Christmas? Well here’s a few: Books: Of course I’d love it if you got them my book but there are some other great books out there that they would appreciate also: Mastering vSphere by Scott Lowe VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment by Edward Haletky VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant…

  • What is Changed Block Tracking in vSphere?

    Eric Siebert
    2 Dec 2009 | 10:25 am
    I’ve recently written several articles on new backup and storage features in vSphere and spent a lot of time trying to learn more about the vStorage APIs and the new Changed Block Tracking (CBT) feature to understand how it works, so I thought I would share that information. CBT is a new feature in vSphere that can keep track of the blocks of a virtual disk that have changed since a certain point in time. This is extremely useful for backup and replication applications that can use this information to greatly improve incremental backup and replication times. Without CBT these…

  • Giving vThanks this holiday season

    Eric Siebert
    30 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am
    With the holiday spirit of thanks and giving, I thought I would make a list of the virtualization-related things that I give thanks for, so here it is: I give thanks for High Availability; how many times have you saved the day by bringing my VMs back up on other hosts after a failure? I give thanks to the blogging community for providing me with some outstanding information on a daily basis. I give thanks to the VMTN communities for getting me started with helping others and showing me how much I enjoy it. I give thanks to Distributed Power Management which helps save my company money by…

  • First update to vSphere released

    Eric Siebert
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:33 am
    VMware has finally released the first update to vSphere almost 6 months after the initial release of vSphere in May 2009. Version 4.0 Update 1 delivers many fixes to bugs and issues as well as support for new features, products and operating systems. Perhaps the biggest updates in this release are support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as guest operating systems as well as support for the newly released VMware View 4.0. This release is significant in the fact that is the first update to vSphere which should appease all those who were waiting to upgrade to vSphere for fear of bugs…

  • Why use vShield Zones?

    Eric Siebert
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:08 pm
    VMware introduced vShield Zones as part of the vSphere release along with VMware Data Recovery as a value-added product that is available in certain editions. I’m always interested in virtualization security products so I spent a lot of time checking out the product which resulted in me writing a series of tips about it. That was a while ago, so I thought I would summarize the information in this blog post and provide some use cases for vShield Zones. Let’s start with what a vShield Zone is. A vShield Zone is essentially a virtual security guard for your vSwitches that…
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  • VMware’s Private Cloud Is The Forest. The Trees Are Project Redwood

    Rich Brambley
    13 Dec 2009 | 5:19 am
    Shortly after VMworld  I posted about my experience using vCloud Express. One of the things that I expected to see but found missing from the solution was the ability to perform virtual machine (VM) uploads and downloads between my own vSphere infrastructure and the hosted VMware environment. To be able to move my workloads (running on VMware VMs) from my private data center to the cloud or visa versa was an expectation I had based on the federated and private cloud discussions I’ve listened to over the past year. I expected to be able to at least manually export or import an OVF, but…

  • VMware vSphere Client Navigation Keyboard Shortcuts

    Rich Brambley
    7 Dec 2009 | 5:15 pm
    vCenter Client Shortcuts by Bouke Groenescheij is post worth book marking by VMware admins who want to speed up their administration and management of vSphere. Check out the entire post for many, many more shortcuts than those listed here, but I am high-lighting some of the key navigational shortcuts for my own reference later (and making sure I have a backup link to Groenescheij’s post!). The following screen shots show the Ctrl+Shift keystroke combinations to move between the most common VI Client management views: Other Ctrl+Shift Navigational shortcuts

  • Considering DroboElite BeyondRaid iSCSI Storage For VMware Environments

    Rich Brambley
    6 Dec 2009 | 6:11 am
    Surely you’ve heard about Drobo by now? As the presenter in the last slot of the GetsaltIT Tech Field Day (TFD) schedule a few weeks ago,  Data Robotics was probably the most anticipated session by my fellow Delegates. I’ll admit, I had heard enough about the technology during the 2 day event that I was looking forward to the presentation as well. Data Robotics did not disappoint. Evidence can be seen in the enthusiasm expressed in the various posts and videos published since that session. As always, I’ll leave the deep technical details of Drobo’s unique and patented…

  • Comparison Table of VMware vSphere Versus Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

    Rich Brambley
    30 Nov 2009 | 7:50 pm
    On the TechRepublic Servers and Storage Blog, Scott Lowe (not this Scott Lowe) posted his objective feature comparison table of VMware vSphere and Hyper-V on Server 2008 R2. Two things from Lowe’s Microsoft’s Hyper-V R2 vs. VMware’s vSphere: A feature comparison caught my eye and made it worth pointing out to VM /ETC readers: Lowe currently runs ESX but, in his words: ” As Microsoft continues to improve Hyper-V R2, we will monitor its progress to determine if and when it might be able to replace VMware.” Lowe actually compares the latest editions of both vSphere…

  • Help Evaluating VMware Virtual Machine Backup Options

    Rich Brambley
    27 Nov 2009 | 3:48 am
    It has to be the most common question for those implementing a new virtual infrastructure (VI)  – “how do we back up our virtual machines?” There are certainly plenty of choices. A company could stay with the (most commonly found in physical environments) system of agent based tape backups, implement VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), implement a third party disk to disk product, or rely on SAN array snapshots. Most likely they will end up with a hybrid solution involving many of these choices. There is not an easy and consistent answer. It’s a company by company…
 
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  • Where’s Waldo?

    Mike DiPetrillo
    14 Dec 2009 | 11:53 pm
    I’ve had a lot of people ping me lately asking where the heck I’ve been. My last post was back in July and wasn’t very cloudy then either. The truth of the matter is I’ve been working completely on cloud. The market has taken off and everyone wants to launch something ASAP and thankfully VMware has been the centerpiece for every single cloud out there (except Microsoft, Google, and Amazon). I was recently just at an all day cloud track at TMForum where most of the major telcos, service providers, and enterprise cloud players from around the world had all gathered…

  • God Speed, Ed Freeman

    Mike DiPetrillo
    13 Jul 2009 | 7:00 am
    As many of you know I’m an aviation nut. I know I haven’t been blogging lately here and it’s not for lack of trying. It’s also not because I’ve just been busy flying (although I would love for that to be the case). Cloud has just really taken off more than I ever thought it would and I’ve been extremely busy with customers all over the world. That’s not why I’m writing today. I’m going off topic to honor a real hero and to blast the media nuts for not picking this up. Instead we’re stuck with 24×7 for 25 days of Michael…

  • VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) Continues to Grow

    Mike DiPetrillo
    8 Jul 2009 | 9:24 am
    In 2008, VMware launched the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP). This program allows service providers to pay for VMware licenses on a per VM per month usage basis. This aligns better with the monthly charges that service providers give to their customers and reduces the upfront Capex spend for service providers. Today VSPP has over 700 service providers in the program. That’s a pretty large presence. What’s more is that nearly all of these service providers are in the middle of adding VMware-powered cloud service to their existing managed hosting environments. That is the…

  • VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Now Available

    Mike DiPetrillo
    6 Jul 2009 | 9:11 am
    Previously I have talked a bit about OVF and how great it is for the industry. VMware’s implementation of OVF is called vApp and it’s fully OVF 1.0 compliant. The tool used for creating vApps is called VMware Studio and it can be found here. The new version of VMware Studio (2.0) is now in beta. One of my favorite features of VMware Studio 2.0 is the Eclipse plug-in. Now developers can develop their apps, test them out locally with VMware Workstation, and then build them into a vApp and inject that vApp directly to a VMware Virtual Infrastructure or vSphere environment or even a…

  • Virtual Iron Dies a Horrible Death

    Mike DiPetrillo
    25 Jun 2009 | 8:29 am
    It seems every time I’m in an account and finish talking about VMware’s cloud strategy and ecosystem Oracle comes up as a discussion point. Customers ask why Oracle seems to be going in the complete opposite direction of their strategic directions and cloud in general. I don’t have a good answer for that one other than to agree with them. Take the announcement from earlier last week that Oracle is killing off Virtual Iron shortly after the acquisition. It’s yet another virtualization technology they bought and have subsequently killed (SUN xVM being the other). This is…
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  • Blogging about View

    Duncan Epping
    15 Dec 2009 | 4:58 am
    I had discussion with Richard Garsthagen during the Dutch VMUG about View/VDI related blogs, or better said the lack of. It appears that desktop is a topic bloggers are avoiding. The weird thing about it is that in the industry View is picking up more and more. Yes there are a couple of bloggers out there who are focussing onView like my colleague Christoph Dommermuth but compared to the “core” product their share is tiny. For me personally there’s a simple reason you don’t see me blogging about View, it’s not part of my focus area. Something I overlooked during…

  • Cool Tool: vAudit

    Duncan Epping
    14 Dec 2009 | 5:14 am
    For some weird reason I never picked up on this tool. Months ago Richard Garsthagen released a beta version of vAudit and recently it was updated to version 1.5. Why would you use vAudit? vAudit has been developed to show you when your VDI Users are logging in and for how long they are using the virtual desktop. I think it is the ideal auditing tool during a Proof of Concept. Are your users actually using it as much as they are saying? When are they using it and for how long? vAudit has an export to CSV feature which enables you to analyze trends regarding usage. Below you can find the…

  • VMUG Aftermath

    Duncan Epping
    13 Dec 2009 | 11:30 pm
    As you know Friday was the fifth anual Dutch VMUG Event. The event is not like most VMUG events, it’s almost a mini VMworld. This year over 600 enthusiastic people attended… or should I say soldiers! It’s the Dutch VCP VMUG Army. The following picture was taken by Victor when he was opening the event. VMware’s CTO Steve Herrod welcomed the audience during the opening, you can watch bits and pieces of it on Eric Sloof’s blog, and mentioned that he personally follows Yellow-Bricks.com and NTPro.nl… How cool is that huh!?! After the opening it was Richard…

  • Book: VMware VI and vSphere SDK

    Duncan Epping
    13 Dec 2009 | 5:08 am
    I received Steve Jin’s book VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere two weeks ago. For those who don’t know Steve, he is the man behind the VI and vSphere Java API which can be found here. But that’s not the topic today, the topic is the book Steve recently published. The book is available via Amazon and most other large (online) bookstores. VMware VI and vSphere SDK takes you on a tour through the SDK trenches. Knowing the SDK is essential when scripting or programming with for instance Powershell, Perl, Java and Python. I am not a…

  • ESXi – lessons learned part 2

    Duncan Epping
    10 Dec 2009 | 5:24 am
    New week, new lessons learned… You can find part 1 here. When Jumbo Frames were introduced in ESX 3.5 a lot of people were interested but it wasn’t supported for the VMkernel which is were most people want to use it as it reduces CPU cycles used due to iSCSI/NFS traffic. When vSphere was released it was one of the things I noticed first. Full support for Jumbo Frames… however: Jumbo frames are not supported for VMkernel networking interfaces in ESXi. (page 54) Although obvious in my opinion it wasn’t obvious for one of my customers: VMware ESXi does not support web…
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  • EC2 US-West Region Available Now

    Ryan Koop
    7 Dec 2009 | 8:00 am
    You asked and we delivered (there might be a pattern here). We have been up late working hard to bring you the benefits of the new AWS EC2 US-West Region in both our product families. The Elastic Server Factory now allows you to assemble, deploy, and manage custom cloud servers in all three EC2 Regions (the US-East Northern Virginia Region, the US-West Northern California Region in the United States, and the EU Ireland Region in Europe). We also created VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 and SSL to EC2 Free Edition AMIs for the new region. Our dedication to you, our customers, runs deep. No sleep number,…

  • VPN-Cubed Now Available for vCloud Deployments

    Ryan Koop
    30 Sep 2009 | 9:00 am
    Hey look!!If you take a look at these screen shots you will see that I have 3 servers - one of them is sending multicast packets (server1) and two of them are receiving multicast (server2 and server3). Whoo!Ok - “so what you say?” “I can see that they are on the same network. They are all on the same 172.31.1.x subnet. I can do that any day of the week!”Well, now look again.The screen shots show the “real” host names; terremark-vpn3-c1, rackspace-vpn3-c1, and ec2usa-vpn3-c1.This is VPN-Cubed®, the x-cloud overlay network in action. You can spread an address space you define,…

  • Zeus ZXTM + Elastic Server... We'll do the math.

    Ryan Koop
    1 Sep 2009 | 2:00 am
    The crew over at Zeus Technology worked with us to create the Zeus ZXTM Elastic Server Site. The Elastic Server Site allows users to quickly assemble and deploy custom ZXTM virtual or cloud appliances. Zeus' ZXTM is a souped-up IP traffic manager that is both easy to use and highly customizable. Elastic Server gives you a quick an easy way to start intelligently managing your applications, streamlining operations and providing a seamless end-user experience with ZXTM. Login to Elastic Server -> Choose your components and Configure your server -> Build -> Take ZXTM for a spin.Zeus ZXTM is…

  • New VPN-Cubed Version and The Cloud Connectivity Market

    Ryan Koop
    28 Aug 2009 | 8:30 am
    Just when you've stuffed yourself silly with cloud computing news, acronyms that start with V, and debates over nebulous semantics...we at CohesiveFT top you off right before the weekend. That's right, strap-in for a YACLA (Yet Another Cloud-Laden Announcement). We'll also address some industry news that came out this week.First a Little About UsToday we are releasing our VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Free Edition, a zero cost AMI available through Amazon DevPay. The VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 Free Edition allows users to create a five-machine VPN-Cubed overlay network in EC2 and connect that overlay…

  • Jaunty Jackalope and Debian Lenny Join the Party!

    Ryan Koop
    15 Jul 2009 | 9:00 am
    Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope and Debian's Lenny Linux-based operating systems are now available for inclusion in your Elastic Servers! If you read this blog with any regularity, a common thread you might notice is the constant addition of components, virtual formats, cloud formats, and operating systems to the configuration and deployment options we make available to our Elastic Server users. Visit the Elastic Server factory and build a couple Jackalope or Lenny servers today.Ok enough promo... What does the Elastic Server and its many server configuration and deployment options really mean to…
 
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  • VIDEO: Jumpstart ESXi and P2V with VMware GO

    David Davis
    3 Dec 2009 | 10:27 am
    I just released a new video to add to my vSphere video training course. This video covers VMware’s GO – a free product that provides SMBs the ability to download ESXi, install it, configure it, create new VMs, perform P2V, download VMs, and manage ESXi servers and VMs once up and running. GO is completely web-based, once you have watched my video, you can try out VMware GO for yourself! <span class=”mceItemObject” classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ id=”ooyalaPlayer_12af9_g2qklx5s” width=”600″…

  • VIDEO: vStorage APIs for Data Protection and Avamar 5

    David Davis
    30 Nov 2009 | 2:08 pm
    Chad Sakac of EMC posted a very detailed post over at his blog covering EMC’s Avamar 5 and how it uses the VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection. I love the detail of his post and the video is great too. I have embedded the video below and I encourage you to read the full blog post over at: Virtual Geek — vStorage APIs for Data Protection and Avamar 5

  • VIDEO: Using VMware ESX Performance Charts

    David Davis
    30 Nov 2009 | 2:05 pm
    Here is my new video blog post over at VirtualizationAdmin.com covering how to use VMware ESX Server Performance charting…

  • VIDEO: What is VMware vCloud Express and how can it help you?

    David Davis
    23 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    Checkout my latest video from VirtualizationAdmin.com and learn what vCloud Express is all about and how it can help you!

  • VIDEO: Installing the vSphere Client in Windows 7

    David Davis
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:46 am
    While the vSphere Client does install fine in Windows 7, it is when you attempt to connect to your vCenter Server that you discover there is a problem. VMware doesn’t officially support the vSphere Client under Windows 7 but there is a workaround to make it work. In this video, I cover how to get the vSphere Client working in Windows 7, step by step. You can download the special system.dll file that is needed here. How To Install VMware vSphere Client in Windows 7 from Train Signal. Your leader in Computer Training Special thanks to those who have posted on this topic before me as I…
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    VMware Tips

  • VMwareTips.com 2009 Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza

    Rick Scherer
    15 Dec 2009 | 9:36 am
    If you haven’t noticed the new banner ad at the top of the website, or the twitter messages that have been going around then you must really be in the dark. The VMwareTips.com 2009 Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza is NOW OPEN! We’re giving away an iomega StorCenter ix4-100 4TB NAS Server as well as some really cool Veeam Management Suite licenses!   Don’t miss out!  Enter the contest now, it is absolutely FREE! Click here to enter.

  • ESX 4.0 Update 1A

    Rick Scherer
    11 Dec 2009 | 10:27 pm
    A new patch has been made available for ESX 4.0 Update 1, this is called Update 1A. It only affects ESX and not ESXi. Here is an except of the alert put out by VMware: ESX 4.0, Update 1, Alert: Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 U1 can fail or time out and leave the host in an unusable state if using HP Systems Insight Management Agent. ESX 4.0 Update 1a (a re-release of ESX 4.0 Update1) that addresses this issue is available. Please read KB article (ID 1016070) before proceeding with the upgrade. As I said above, this patch is listed as ESX 4.0 Update 1A and can be found on the VMware Downloads…

  • Strange vCenter 4.0 U1 and ESXi 4.0 U1 SSL Issue

    Rick Scherer
    9 Dec 2009 | 7:56 am
    Last week I came across a problem that really stumped me, it even stumped the Tier-1 and Tier-2 support at VMware.  I’m posting the symptoms on here in a hope that someone else has experienced this issue and can share some light. How about a little background on the environment, vCenter Server 4.0 U1 and multiple ESX(i) hosts (3.5, 4.0, 4.0 U1).   The vCenter Server as well as a number of ESXi 4.0 hosts were upgraded to U1 a couple days after it was released,  this problem however happened ~8 days after the upgrade. Symptom 1: All ESX(i) hosts disconnect from vCenter Server,…

  • Pre-Order VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference

    Rick Scherer
    9 Dec 2009 | 7:33 am
    VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference, written by Scott Lowe, Jase McCarty and Matthew Johnson is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. I was fortunate enough to work on this book as a technical editor, and must say that it is the perfect vSphere quick reference book for both the beginner vSphere admin as well as the seasoned veteran. Be one of the first to get your own copy, and order it now for under $20, it makes the perfect holiday gift!

  • VMware Releases VI3 Update 5

    Rick Scherer
    6 Dec 2009 | 10:43 am
    Sometime yesterday ESX(i) Update 5 finally hit VMware Update Manager, about 2 days after the official announcement and release on the VMware website. This announcement includes updates for ESX, ESXi and vCenter Server. In addition to Update 5 being released there were about 20 additional updates made available for ESX(i), including 16 which were marked as critical. The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX Server, this information can be found in the VMware ESX(i) 3.5 U5 Release Notes: Enablement of Intel Xeon Processor…
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    Citrix XenServer

  • Workflow Studio Webinar Recording Posted

    Peter Schulz
    14 Dec 2009 | 11:27 pm
    A big thank you to everyone who attended our live Workflow Studio webinar yesterday. During the webinar we demonstrated several workflows that are available on the community site: Provision User in Active Directory Start a VM Publish Applications on XenApp Publish Applications on XenApp from a CSV file If you weren't able to attend you can view the recording here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/331741737 If you have questions, please leave a comment or contact me directly . View Online | Add Comment

  • Windows install best practices

    James Cannon
    14 Dec 2009 | 10:59 am
    A lot of times we rip through a new Windows VM install without too much thought. What actually occurs during this process? When using the new VM wizard, we are creating parameters for a VM, which go into a database that is the heart of XenServer. Once the wizard completes, during the OS install phase, the Windows installation runs fully virtualized. So, if we assign 4 virtual CPUs, and 8GBs of RAM, how does this affect our XenServer environment? Until the XenTools are installed in a Windows VM, it is running fully virtualized with all the work being done by the domain 0 controlling VM (AKA…

  • Economic Cloud Computing - From Louisiana?

    Scott Swanburg
    14 Dec 2009 | 7:12 am
    Cloud Computing is now reaching the masses.   With brand names like Amazon, Google and Microsoft consistently in the news, everyone is trying to find out more about this new way of providing computing services.  We in the IT industry are influenced by the "Technorati" who hone in on what the "big names" in the industry say about Cloud and who is offering what service. This leads to some important dialog: How will this affect our business? What is the right positioning strategy to propel our products into the spot light? During a recent speaking engagement at a Cloud Computing…

  • Workflow Studio Webinar

    Peter Schulz
    9 Dec 2009 | 12:01 pm
    Please join us next Monday for a webinar on Workflow Studio where you will learn how Workflow Studio can help you transform your data center into a Delivery Center. In this 90 minute webinar you will learn: ● Why automation is critical for your organization ● How easy Workflow Studio is to deploy ● How to integrate Workflow Studio with existing Citrix products and 3rd party products ● How to engage with other members of the community to share and benefit from what others have done ● What is coming next with Workflow Studio Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at:…

  • A New Record for Cloud Service?

    Simon Crosby
    9 Dec 2009 | 7:20 am
    It was fun to be on stage at the end of summer at the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego, faced by the somewhat over-emphatic Scott Drummonds of VMware in a debate about performance and benchmarking. In that tussle, Scott tried to justify why VMware's continued resistance to the publication of independent benchmarks on virtualization performance is "reasonable". Basically, VMware reserves the right to prevent publication of any comparative benchmarks between their products and those of VMware competitors, based on the idea that users are incompetent at undertaking benchmarking…
 
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    VCritical

  • VMware vCenter CapacityIQ 1.0.1 for vSphere

    Eric Gray
    15 Dec 2009 | 10:18 am
    Today VMware released vCenter CapacityIQ 1.0.1 — an update to support VMware vSphere 4.  Like vSphere, CapacityIQ is offered with a 60-day trial. If you are not familiar with CapacityIQ (a.k.a. CapIQ or CIQ), it is an add-on management product for vCenter Server that assists in planning and managing virtualization resources. CapIQ is very easy to deploy since it ships as a virtual appliance in OVF format — just load it onto an ESX host and perform a few simple configuration steps. It’s also simple to use since the user interface is a vSphere Client plug-in.  That means no…

  • The Truth About VM SAN Transfers

    Eric Gray
    3 Dec 2009 | 4:05 am
    Most enterprise virtualization deployments make use of a robust shared storage infrastructure.  A high-performance SAN allows multiple hypervisors to access virtual machine disks and is the foundation for amazing virtualization benefits such as VMware vMotion and HA.  There are other benefits, too. Virtualization management tasks such as cloning existing virtual machines or deploying new ones from templates often involve slinging around multi-gigabyte chunks of data.  It’s preferable to move or copy data on the SAN instead of the LAN because it can be faster, but more importantly,…

  • The Truth About Storage Hot Add and Remove

    Eric Gray
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:34 am
    VMware vSphere 4 supports a range of hot storage management technologies: vStorage VMFS Volume Grow Hot Extend for Virtual Disks Hot Virtual Disk Add/Remove With these capabilities, if space gets tight in your vSphere environment, it is easy to be proactive and address the issue before anyone notices.  The process goes something like this: Allocate additional physical hard disk space on your SAN to an appropriate LUN Grow your VMFS datastore onto the newly added free space Extend, or add new, virtual disks for the VMs that need more storage Expand the volume inside the guest to create more…

  • vSphere Thin-Provisioned Disk Performance

    Eric Gray
    14 Nov 2009 | 10:19 pm
    Thin disk provisioning is a fully-supported feature in vSphere 4 that can save tons of storage space on your SAN by allowing virtual disks to consume storage space as needed instead all at once. Under the supervision of VMware vCenter Server, ESX 4 thin provisioning is safe and reliable even for production workloads thanks to advanced storage accounting and built-in monitoring.  And even if the worst does happen — an unexpectedly full datastore — recovery is simple. Now that you are convinced that VMware vSphere thin provisioning has a place in your data center, you may be…

  • SCVMM/PRO Complexity: High

    Eric Gray
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:10 am
    About a year ago, I wrote about the complex requirements for enabling PRO Tips in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM).  That was the previous release — what has changed now that SCVMM 2008 R2 is available? Not much. First Things First Before you can use PRO to Live Migrate virtual machines between hosts (which is sort of the whole point), you need to first configure Hyper-V, failover clustering, and Cluster Shared Volumes — something eWeek found to be significantly more complicated than VMware ESX. After Hyper-V and Live Migration are up and running, the next step…
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    VCritical

  • VMware vCenter CapacityIQ 1.0.1 for vSphere

    Eric Gray
    15 Dec 2009 | 10:18 am
    Today VMware released vCenter CapacityIQ 1.0.1 — an update to support VMware vSphere 4.  Like vSphere, CapacityIQ is offered with a 60-day trial. If you are not familiar with CapacityIQ (a.k.a. CapIQ or CIQ), it is an add-on management product for vCenter Server that assists in planning and managing virtualization resources. CapIQ is very easy to deploy since it ships as a virtual appliance in OVF format — just load it onto an ESX host and perform a few simple configuration steps. It’s also simple to use since the user interface is a vSphere Client plug-in.  That means no…

  • The Truth About VM SAN Transfers

    Eric Gray
    3 Dec 2009 | 4:05 am
    Most enterprise virtualization deployments make use of a robust shared storage infrastructure.  A high-performance SAN allows multiple hypervisors to access virtual machine disks and is the foundation for amazing virtualization benefits such as VMware vMotion and HA.  There are other benefits, too. Virtualization management tasks such as cloning existing virtual machines or deploying new ones from templates often involve slinging around multi-gigabyte chunks of data.  It’s preferable to move or copy data on the SAN instead of the LAN because it can be faster, but more importantly,…

  • The Truth About Storage Hot Add and Remove

    Eric Gray
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:34 am
    VMware vSphere 4 supports a range of hot storage management technologies: vStorage VMFS Volume Grow Hot Extend for Virtual Disks Hot Virtual Disk Add/Remove With these capabilities, if space gets tight in your vSphere environment, it is easy to be proactive and address the issue before anyone notices.  The process goes something like this: Allocate additional physical hard disk space on your SAN to an appropriate LUN Grow your VMFS datastore onto the newly added free space Extend, or add new, virtual disks for the VMs that need more storage Expand the volume inside the guest to create more…

  • vSphere Thin-Provisioned Disk Performance

    Eric Gray
    14 Nov 2009 | 10:19 pm
    Thin disk provisioning is a fully-supported feature in vSphere 4 that can save tons of storage space on your SAN by allowing virtual disks to consume storage space as needed instead all at once. Under the supervision of VMware vCenter Server, ESX 4 thin provisioning is safe and reliable even for production workloads thanks to advanced storage accounting and built-in monitoring.  And even if the worst does happen — an unexpectedly full datastore — recovery is simple. Now that you are convinced that VMware vSphere thin provisioning has a place in your data center, you may be…

  • SCVMM/PRO Complexity: High

    Eric Gray
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:10 am
    About a year ago, I wrote about the complex requirements for enabling PRO Tips in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM).  That was the previous release — what has changed now that SCVMM 2008 R2 is available? Not much. First Things First Before you can use PRO to Live Migrate virtual machines between hosts (which is sort of the whole point), you need to first configure Hyper-V, failover clustering, and Cluster Shared Volumes — something eWeek found to be significantly more complicated than VMware ESX. After Hyper-V and Live Migration are up and running, the next step…
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    Vmware Scripting

  • list cluster name, number of hosts, number of vm's

    14 Dec 2009 | 5:47 am
    [code]foreach ($cluster in Get-Cluster){$guestcount = $cluster | get-vm | measure-object$hostcount = $cluster | get-vmhost |  measure-object"" | select-object @{Name="Cluster"; Expression={$cluster.name}},                   @{Name="Hosts"; Express...

  • Re: PowerShellASP

    24 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am
    Hi, thanks for getting back to me!I'm supplying the correct servername, username and password in the script.This seems to happen on my XP IIS 5.0 machine and Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 machine. On the IIS 6.0 setup I have put the app into it's own applicat...

  • Re: PowerShellASP

    24 Nov 2009 | 5:35 am
    "The current configuration system does not support user-scoped settings." is an odd exception in your context.  The error id is 'access denied'.  Are you supplying a server name, user and password on the vi-connect line?  What IIS version?  What is the...

  • Re: PowerShellASP

    24 Nov 2009 | 5:01 am
    Hi Guys,I've tried to set this up on two servers, however, whenever I invoke the "connect-viserver" commandlet I get the following error:Error while executing PowerShell Script:C:\Program Files\PowerShellToys\PowerShellASP V1\demos\getmksticket.ps1x...

  • Re: how to create one vm-info report from several scripts?

    28 Oct 2009 | 12:17 pm
    very nice, great job!
 
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    Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft virtualization blog

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Documentation

    Ilija Brajkovic
    14 Dec 2009 | 10:18 pm
    For IT professionals responsible for managing virtual infrastructures, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008—a member of the System Center family of system management products—provides a straightforward and cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines, Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) for dynamic and responsive management of virtual... Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info

  • Hyper-V Technical Information and Resources

    Ilija Brajkovic
    14 Dec 2009 | 1:35 am
    Want to know more about Hyper-V? Want to know a lot about Hyper-V? Today I have to share a fantastic site with you. Hyper-V Technical Information and Resources is site with tons of materials for Hyper-V. Categories include: Install, Pre-Deployment Tools, Installation, Guidance, Deployment, Management, Workload Specific and Benchmarks. Just click on image provided to [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info

  • Boot Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from USB Stick

    Ilija Brajkovic
    9 Dec 2009 | 11:24 am
    If you for any reason need to install Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on USB stick, and boot it from there, now you have an easy option to do it. You could have done that before, but the process was quite complicated. Now that process is quite simple, thanks to Paul Despe, who made a [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster

    Ilija Brajkovic
    6 Dec 2009 | 10:28 pm
    Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components poster provides a visual reference for understanding key technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on Active Directory Domain Services, Hyper-V, Internet Information Services, Remote Desktop Services (including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)), BranchCache, and DirectAccess technologies. In addition, updates to core file services and server... Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info

  • Core Configurator 2.0

    Ilija Brajkovic
    3 Dec 2009 | 10:58 am
    If you’re using Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition, but you’re too lazy to do all administrative tasks from a command line (Why should I use Server Core?), then Core Configurator 2.0 is the tool for you. It enables you to use Windows Server 2008 R2 Core and do all your administrative tasks from [...] Copyright © Ilija Brajkovic http://www.brajkovic.info
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