Virtualization Archives - Page 9 of 15

Thinking about trying out VDI and Terminals? Check out HP ThinPro Demo

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This morning while looking for the updated HP t5745 firmware I noticed another package on the support page called “HP ThinPro Operating System Demonstration Package”. So naturally I followed the link to figure out what sort of demo this was,…

Second Technology First article

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

My second printed article just came out in the October Issue, make sure to pick up a copy if you are in the Dayton area. Of you can check it out online here: http://www.technologyfirst.org/images/stories/techfirst/magazines/2011/2011_10.pdf starting on page 11. Technologyfirst.org is…

Tweaking VMware’s Round Robin Settings

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

One thing that should always be done when using 1Gb iSCSI is setting up Multipathing, and in all version of vSphere they have included NMP or Native Multi Pathing. With NMP comes a path selection method called Round Robin which…

Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider Part 2 (a customer How-To)

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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 or do anything else, this article will show you how…

Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider (a customer How-To)

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

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 post will assume that you have already signed up with…

Hyper-V 3 for Me

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Brad Eley | 2 Comments

Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform may be a 12 year old hanging out with a bunch of high school seniors, but this pre-teen is mature for his age. Could Hyper-V be the Doogie Howser of virtual infrastructures? I am humbled to…

Design Tip: Switching in a VMware Environment

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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 on Ethernet switches. Normally for front-end connectivity (from VMware servers…

vSphere 5 Redo Log Warnings + Veeam Issues

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

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 to temporarily backup some VM’s and after several failed backup…

New VMware Workstation 8 Features

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

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. The first thing that I noticed is the ability to…