Lots of buzz in the VMware Space
Yesterday VMware publicly announced two projects that they have been working on, so I figured I would share some details on those projects that were mentioned in the presentation. First…
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vExpert 2012!
After seeing my email box blow up this morning with new posts on the vExpert board I thought I better have a look and see if I was on the…
VCP5 Exam Tips
Today I sat for the VMware Certified Professional 5 test since it was the last day before the “What’s New” class was going to be a requirement for the upgrade…
Free VMware Monitoring with vPanorama
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…
HTTP Load Balancing with vCloud and vShield Edge
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…
Integrity Check Failures with VMware Data Recovery 2
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…
Tweaking VMware’s Round Robin Settings
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…
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 P2000 G3 – Upgrading to get VAAI Support
I just wanted to give all of the Hp P2000 G3 owners a heads up that there is an updated firmware version available that adds VAAI support to your SAN.…
Migrating External SAS storage to VMware
The Mission: Virtualize a very SMB customers file and document imaging server off of their aging hardware while leaving intact an MSA50 drive shelf. The idea is that because the…