Veeam V7 vCloud Director Preview
Veeam has been advertising some of their Veeam Backup and Replication V7 features for a while now, but I finally got access to the beta and was allowed to bring you a preview of some of the new technology. This…
Category: Virtualization
My frustration with Hyper-V, do you really save anything?
The story of a difficult experience with Hyper-V If you follow my Twitter feed you knew this article was coming… After spending about 3 hours on the phone with a customer trying to help them get their CSV (Cluster Shared…
Spring Cleaning Tips for your VMware Environment
I just wanted to throw out some tips that I run into from time to time in customer environments. These are just meant to be a quick reminder of the things that I find are missed during installations. If you…
View Desktop Pool with HTML Access HowTo
Last week VMware officially released the bits to allow HTML access for VMware Horizon View connections. So naturally, I decided to upgrade the Hands on Labs to View 5.2 with HTML access the night before an event. No worries though…
VMware View 5.2 is now GA
Today VMware View 5.2 was released, and with it comes a list of new features. Some of which might be helpful and some of which you might never use 🙂 Here is the list: Ability to add Nvidia GPU’s to…
Zerto: First week experience
Update Oct 2016 – Please note that the version of Zerto used for screenshots in this article is version 3.x. While similar, the user interface in current Zerto releases if very different looking and uses an all HTML5 interface. I…
Zerto, could it be the answer to your DR prayers?
From the Zerto site: Zerto provides enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions for virtualized infrastructure and cloud. Zerto won Best of Show at VMworld 2011, as well as 2011 Product of the Year Gold Award because our software,…
Cloudberry Online Backup Review
If you are looking to push your small business or even just your personal laptop backups to the cloud, Cloudberry‘s Online Backup product might just be what you are looking for! Cloudberry offers several backup products for almost any situation,…
Network and Storage for VDI: Exactly the same, entirely different
Once upon a time as an admin you weren’t so sure about virtualization. It was yet another alien technology that management or a well-intentioned zealot in your IT organization was pushing on you, bringing a new set of challenges and…
Building a Dashboard for the Hands on Lab Project
After finishing up my HOL Provisioning script I moved on to the second thing on my list of Todo’s since the first HOL event in Kansas City… Build a dashboard. I found that about 10 minutes into the lab things…