The Cloud and ITaaS: Why you and your dad still have a job to do!
This morning as I prepare to meet with a coworker to discuss cloud pricing and what our company intends to offer I was thinking about why a company would want…
Author: Justin Paul
Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider Part 2 (a customer How-To)
In the first part of this article I showed you how to get a vApp provisioned with two virtual machines. However we did not load the operating systems in them…
Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider (a customer How-To)
The goal of this post is to convey just how easy it is to work with virtual machines in a public cloud that is using VMware vCloud Director software. This…
AppAssure Replay 4: A First Look
If you’re in the market for a backup product that not only does virtual servers but also physical servers, you may want to take a look at Replay from AppAssure.…
Design Tip: Switching in a VMware Environment
Switching is the backbone of every network, without it, you really don’t even have a network. In a VMware environment, it can be twice as crucial because iSCSI also depends…
vSphere 5 Redo Log Warnings + Veeam Issues
I found a new error in vSphere 5 today that I haven’t seen in previous versions of vSphere purely by accident. I set up a Veeam Backup and Replication VM…
New VMware Workstation 8 Features
Yesterday VMware released Workstation version 8 officially and touts over 50 new features. Naturally, I had to check it out, and I must say that version 8 is pretty impressive.…
HP NIC Teaming on 2008 Server Core
As part of an upcoming HyperV project, I was tasked with installing 2008 R2 Server Core with the HyperV role on an HP DL360 G7 server. So I started out…
HP ESXi Hosts continually disconnect from vCenter
Today I set up three new ESXi 5.0 hosts with the HP Branded ESXi media, all went well until I joined the hosts to vCenter. After joining and registering with…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 5: vCD Installation
Now that we have our hardware all in place, vSphere 5 Installed, our database configured and running, and vShield deployed we are ready to build our vCloud Director virtual machine,…