EMC World and EMC TC Conference… key info…. (Virtual Geek)
It is NUTS at EMC right now in the run up to a huge event… Ok – first, on Twitter, key hashtags are #EMCWorld and … (wait for it) … #CloudFreaky. Then…. 1) EMC World attendees and TC conference attendees...
KB article about SvMotion / VDS / HA problem republished with script to mitigate! (Yellow Bricks)
Just a second ago the GSS/KB team republished the KB article that explain the vSphere 5.0 problem around SvMotion / vDS / HA. I wrote about this problem various times and would like to refer to that for more details. What I want to point out here though is that the KB article now has a script attached which will help preventing problems until a full fixed is released. This script is basically th...
Have you seen this? (Virtual Geek)
Check out www.emc.com this morning (bit of the theme starting to peek out )…. It. Is. Going. To. Be. Epic!
Vendorwag in the Valley – Pure Storage (RTFM Education)
As with the other videos in the “Vendorwag in the Valley” we have diced & sliced them into 3 course, or one jumbo portion. First video is the “elevator pitch” which gives an introduction from the CEO about who Pure Storage are, what they do, and what their unique value-proposition is. What this video if you have never come across Pure Storage before....
VMware View Evaluator’s Guide (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL)
The purpose of this document is to support a self-guided, hands-on review of VMware View 5. The content is intended to show how easily you can set up a VMware View 5 environment so you can evaluate both new and important capabilities. These capabilities include creating and managing virtualized desktops, and validating the suggested use cases.
The guide is divided into th...
Manipulating OVFs? Which tools to use (ESX Virtualization)
Which tools are available to create and use OVFs. The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is well known format for transporting virtual machines between different products. You can export vApps or VMs as an OVF file and use them in VMware Workstation or Player in a test or development environments. OVF is supportet through different VMware products, like vSphere, [...]
Admission control and vCloud Allocation Pool model (frankdenneman.nl)
The previous article outlines the multiple admission controls active in a virtual infrastructure. One that always interested me in particular is the admission control feature that verifies resource availability. With the introduction of vCloud director another level of resource construct were introduced. Along with Provider virtual datacenter (vDC) and Organization vDCs, allocation models were i...
Database workload testing with Dell DVD Store (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL)
The DVD Store Version 2 (DS2) is a complete online e-commerce test application, with a backend database component, a web application layer, and driver programs. The goal in designing the database component as well as the midtier application was to utilize many advanced database features (transactions, stored procedures, triggers, referential integity) while keeping the database ...
Xangati brings scalability, capacity management, automated analytics model and tracks the end user activity in VDI sessions (ESX Virtualization)
Xangati’s major Update of Management Dashboards with cloud scale features Today Xangati has announced new update to their flagship products Xangati Managment Dashboard and VDI Dashboard. Last year when Xangati introduced Xangati for VDI it was something new and it announced that the VDI is really pushing forward. This year with the new update, the [...]
Flash VDI Calculator 2.8 for VMware View 5.1 released (ESX Virtualization)
Update of Flash VDI calculator 2.8 release Andre Leibovici through his blog has released an update to his Online Sizing Tool for VMware View 5.1. VMware View 5.1 should be generally available any time soon, it’s been announced through my website few days back in detailed article here. If you don’t know this tool or [...]
Discover game changing replication for vSphere VMs (Gabes Virtual World)
(Copied from the Veeam announcement)
Need to change your disaster recovery practices?
Join VMware vExpert Gabrie van Zanten, a principal consultant at Open Line for this LIVE webinar and discover how a strong replication strategy will improve your DR practices.
Gabrie van Zanten is a VMware virtualization expert, the author on his ownweblog
Rick Vanover, Veeam Product Strategy Specialist ...
vChat Episode 26 – My Big Fat Geeky vChat (TechHead.co.uk)
In vChat Episode 26 David, Eric and myself cover the latest news and happenings in the world of virtualization including EMC World prep, HP Discover, regional VMUGs, and much more (don’t forget home labs and iPads) – don’t miss it!
In this vChat we covered:
EMC World Labs
HP Discover
TrainSignal New Courses – vCloud Director, Advanced vSphere Networking and Scott Lowe...
Disaster recovery strategy – Four Key Elements (ESX Virtualization)
Four Key Elements of a Successful Disaster Recovery Strategy When: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT (10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT) Dell (Appassure) Organizes a Free webminar with Greg Shields – vExpert, MVP and Joseph Hand - Sr. Director of Product Strategy, Dell AppAssure Software. As more machines become virtualized, has your disaster recovery strategy changed to address [...]
Optimized PowerShell performance with Cisco UCS PowerTool (Virtu-Al.Net)
In the last post I gave a quick overview of one of the many cool features of the Cisco UCS PowerTool PowerShell Module, I showed how they had made it easy for the admin to pick up their toolkit and use it, how navigation over 1000+ cmdlets could be made easier, if you didn’t read it then you can find the post here.
I quickly realized this was not going to be a one blog post affair as there are...
Duco Jaspars at vConsult goes live (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL)
Fellow vExpert Duco Jaspars finally decided to start his own VMware blog. His website can be found at blog.vconsult.nl. Duco who works as a Virtualization Consultant is a well-known figure in the virtualization community. He has helped many people with advice and guidance but he has made an art of arranging free goodies, not only for his own use but also for other virtualization friends Ke...
Columbus Ohio & Austin Texas Bound… (RTFM Education)
I’m getting all setup for my next trip to the US of A. First stop is to speak at the Columbus, Ohio Regional Conferrence/VMUG on the 22nd May. The agenda for the meeting has been released over here and it will be held at:
Hyatt Regency Columbus
350 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43215
I will be speaking about SRM again, and hope to have an updated deck of slides based on...
RVTools 3.3 has been released (ESX Virtualization)
New Release of RVTools 3.3 – Free tool for VMware vSphere Few days back, there has been new release of RVTools. This release – the 3.3 release brings new TAB called vHBA (Host based adapters). As you can imagine, you will be able to find information about the HBAs. You’ll be able to see the [...]
Never miss an appointment again with PowerShell (Virtu-Al.Net)
If your anything like me then you spend most of your time in PowerShell and sometimes forget to check your appointments in Outlook, wouldn’t it be great if you could see your Outlook calendar straight in PowerShell ?
After doing a little searching and altering this post, I created a nice function for PowerShell which I called
Get-Outlookappointments
This function by default will show 7 days wo...
VMGuru.nl at VMUG.Be – The Blogger Edition: Register now for FREE access! (VMGuru.nl - I choose (a virtual) life!)
The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is a gathering with all the nerds, enthusiasts and bloggers [...]
by Alex Muetstege
Easily Creating PowerShell Quick References (Virtu-Al.Net)
I needed to provide some examples of PowerShell code recently for a quick reference poster and thought this might be useful for others looking for quick code examples.
All the examples you need can be found by using Get-Help with the –Examples parameter. Did you know that as with everything else in PowerShell these items are returned as nice objects, we can easily pick the items we need to c...
Veeam Backup and Replication 6 – Architecture with 3 branch offices (ESX Virtualization)
Veeam 6.0 – Detailed configuration with 3 branch offices. Veeam Backup and Replication 6 completely changed it’s architecture. For the good, since it’s scales up very well by providing the IT admins with the possibility to deploy backup proxy servers and also storage depository at the branch offices while still keeping the media server installed [...]
The pRoad to vExpert (VMGuru.nl - I choose (a virtual) life!)
I often get several questions regarding how I started in IT, how I became an Enterprise Architect, how did I get where I am nowadays, what did you do in the past years and what my advice would be if someone wanted to get a job like mine. For the VMTN vExpert Spotlight I answered [...]
by Edwin Weijdema
Vendorwag in the Valley – Nlyte Software – iTunes/iPod/iPhone/iPad/AppleTV Edition (RTFM Education)
If you missed the youtube version of my vendorwag with Nlyte Software, its now available to listen to via my iTunes subscription. I chat with Craig Ledo and Claudia Hanson
There’s three videos – the Elevator Pitch, the Product Lowdown and the Techknowledgy Demo.
Cool Tool – Cloud Resource Meter (Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL)
6fusion’s Cloud Resource Meter is a VMware vApp that allows you to profile any vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 environment and evaluate the cost of running that environment in the cloud – all for free and all right from the vSphere Console. Cloud Resource Meter installs in your VMware vSphere environment in minutes and allows users to view “real time” computing consumption information at a glanc...
Getting started with Cisco UCS PowerTool (Virtu-Al.Net)
Today I was lucky enough to grab some time with Eric Williams and colleagues over at Cisco, they held a one day training course on their UCS PowerTool which is a PowerShell module for managing UCS Systems, if you haven’t seen the Cisco UCS systems I suggest you get out from under that rock and check them out, they are fantastic implementation of a PowerShell module, currently they are avai...
