Virtualization Archives - Page 8 of 15

My Next Speaking Engagement

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Here is a summary of what is going on, but for a complete list go to: SMS proTECH’s Page VMware Business Technology Lunch & Learn Wednesday, March 21, 2012 – 10:00am – 2:00pm Findlay Country Club, 1500 Country Club Drive,…

Justifying the Cost of Virtual Desktops

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

Recently I was putting together a proposal for a customer who needed to refresh 40 desktops, in the proposal I needed to compare the costs of replacing the aging desktops with new HP Desktop PC’s versus replacing them with VMware…

Veeam NFR Keys for VMware and Microsoft Certified Professionals

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Brad Eley | 0 Comments

If you are a VMware vExpert, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) or VMware User Group (VMUG) member, you can get a FREE 2-socket NFR license for Veeam Backup & Replication v6 for your home or work lab.…

Virtualization Project Worksheet

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

In an effort to make a migration to a virtual infrastructure easier, I have put together another document to aid in that process. This one tries to mimic the EMC SAN Worksheet you fill out when you get a new…

Free VMware Monitoring with vPanorama

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Today one of the emails that made it through my spam filter was from some company advertising a “Free VMware Monitoring Tool”, normally I would have just deleted it and moved on, but for some reason, I decided to check…

HTTP Load Balancing with vCloud and vShield Edge

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

One of the features that I keep seeing in product documentation about vCloud and vShield is the ability for vShield Edge to do HTTP load balancing. However every time I go looking for the feature in vCloud Director I couldn’t…

Microsoft Licensing in a Virtual World

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

I have thought about touching this topic several times, and each time I start to write the post I find myself stopping. I think it’s mostly because this debate is hard for some people to get their hands around, and…

Integrity Check Failures with VMware Data Recovery 2

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

In case you have been living under a rock for the last couple years I should first mention that VMware does offer it’s own backup solution for vSphere. This product is called VMware Data Recovery. Think of it as a…

VMware SRM5 and vSphere Replication

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

With the release of VMware vSphere 5 also came the release of many other products, one of those was Site Recovery Manager 5. Site Recovery Manager is an add-on product to vSphere that allows for a disaster recovery plan to…

VMware View 1.2 iPad Client Released

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This morning my iPad was showing one program that had an update available, and after checking which one I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was the VMware View Client. It looks like this is release 1.2 and holds…