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Veeam Launches Backup & Replication v7 22 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Data protection, data replication, and data recovery are challenging. Consolidation through virtualization has forced customers to retool automated protection and recovery methodologies in the datace...
Unleash The VCDX In You 17 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
VCDX certification – for anyone who is on the fence about going through with it, you may want to take a look at some short video clips shot at VMworld 2012 last year. VCDXs who have gone through the ...
vCloud Director, RHEL 6.3, and Windows Server 2012 NFS 17 Jul 2013 | 01:49 am
One of the new features introduced in vCloud Director 5.1.2 is cell server support on the RHEL 6 Update 3 platform (you should also know that cell server support on RHEL 5 Update 7 was silently remove...
Software Defined Single Sign On Database Creation 2 Jul 2013 | 09:59 pm
I don’t manage large scale production vSphere datacenters any longer but I still manage several smaller environments, particularly in the lab. One of my pain points since the release of vSphere 5.1 h...
The .vmfsBalloon File 1 Jul 2013 | 07:40 pm
One year ago, I wrote a piece about thin provisioning and the role that the UNMAP VAAI primitive plays in thin provisioned storage environments. Here’s an excerpt from that article: When the manual ...
VMware Extends Lab Manager 4.x Support 1 Year 25 Jun 2013 | 06:23 pm
A few years ago, with the release of VMware vCloud Director 1.0, VMware announced the end of support date for Lab Manager 4.x (I wrote about that here). That date had actually come and gone last mont...
vEXPERT 2013 Thoughts and Thanks 18 Jun 2013 | 08:18 am
The ballots have been counted and the 2013 vEXPERTS were announced in a VMTN blog post by John Troyer. I was fortunate enough to be awarded this honorable designation for a fifth consecutive year (I’...
Available Lab Gear 30 May 2013 | 05:00 am
Heads up to any locals looking for server grade vSphere hardware infrastructure. I’ve been doing some lab spring cleaning the past few weeks and after some consolidation efforts, I’ve got some hardwa...
Publisher Error In Your Favor 20 May 2013 | 08:58 pm
I’m not promoting this on Twitter – Let’s see who actually reads my blog on a Monday morning or at least still employs RSS technology. A short while ago, I received on my doorstep a copy of Scott Low...
vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Update Sequence 6 May 2013 | 08:09 pm
Not so long ago, VMware product releases were staggered. Major versions of vSphere would launch at or shortly after VMworld in the fall, and all other products such as SRM, View, vCloud Director, etc...
