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Short story: Can I replace the new vCenter 5.1 iPXE boot with good old vCenter 5.0 PXE? Yes you can !!!! I called on twitter for help for someone to send me the contents of their AutopDeploy 5.0 FTPRoot directory and I promptly received a response from Roman ( @medea61  ). After placing the AutoDeploy 5.0 contents in the FTPRoot directory and editing the TRAMP file to reflect the IP address of ...

VMware have announced the latest update to their vSphere product, vSphere 5.1.  As you’d expect in this latest release (5.1) there are a number of improvements and the introduction of some significant new value-add features.  One of the biggest announcements with vSphere 5.1, in my opinion, is a change to the vSphere licensing model with the highly unpopular vRAM licensing model being replac...

As you might know the team I work for, VMware Technical Marketing, is responsible for a lot of the release collateral. Of course it was no different with the vSphere / vCloud 5.1 launch. Here are the links to all the excellent papers my colleagues wrote up. What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 What’s new in VMware vCenter 5.1 What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Networking Wha...

On June 4th Veeam released version 6.1 of their well known Veeam Backup & Replication suite. In this new release they have of course included many fixes and quite number of interesting new features. The biggest new thing however is The Free Version called “Veeam Backup Free Edition”. Let’s do a quick walk through the Backup & Replication 6.1. After a quick installation process, the...

After running the “Private Investigator” design, a film noir theme, for almost 2 years, it was time for a redesign. I asked my good twitter friend Jenneke van Wijngaarden (@JennekePenneke) for help and ideas. Jenneke is well known for her graffiti art on walls and paintings, but she had never before created a design for a website. Nevertheless she took her pencil and drew a few desi...

Today VMware released their Technical Preview of the VMware View PCoIP client for OSX. We’ve all been waiting for this since the release of VMware View 5 and today I finally got to test it on OSX. Of course I had to install it right away and run a test drive from work to my VMware View 5 lab at home. Even though I have only a small uplink to my ISP, I was able to run a Youtube movie at 480p wi...

In my previous post on VMware vSphere5 Auto deploy I explained how to setup an auto deploy environment. This is great for initial setup and to deploy your hosts, but what when an update is released by VMware? The easiest thing is to just delete the deploy rules and recreate them which is ok for a small environment but not in a large environment. In this post I will show you how to adjust your ex...

Many installed vSphere 5 soon after the official release, starting with vCenter 5 and then reinstalled their ESXi hosts. Of course you need the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client as well to set up your environment, which you install on your Windows desktop or inside a Windows VM. Once you have your configuration up and running and want to perform some basic tasks, it sometimes would be great i...

Last few weeks a lot of talk has been about the new VMware licensing for vSphere 5. Many reported how this would work against VMware’s principle of running as many VMs on one host as possible. After the dust had settled, people started checking their own situations and found that things weren’t as bad as they looked in the first place but for some the new licensing policy would still mean a ...

I bet you all heard about the big news yesterday where VMware announced vSphere 5. Despite a lot of applauding for the great new features, there also a lot of noise on twitter about the new licensing for vSphere. VMware has decided to move to vRAM licensing without any maximums on the amount of RAM or the number of CPU cores. This PDF explains it all. Biggest concern of the twitter community was...

At Techfield day, VMware presented to us delegates their Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) and as expected all these geeks where very interested to see what VMware had to offer. Unfortunately the overall feeling was that the product as demonstrated to us was a bit disappointing. Of course it is still no released product, but even then there are some points to worry about, but first let’s ha...

Today VMware released the long awaited VMware vSphere client for the iPad. Since VMworld 2010 the rumors where that the vSphere client for iPad would be released anytime soon, but unfortunately we had to wait until today before we could play with it. The VMware vSphere client for the iPad is FREE and great for some very basic admin tasks, but to be honest it’s no rocketscience.  The vSphe...

With vSphere 4.1, VMware released a great new feature called Memory compression. At first, after reading the release notes I thought memory compression was just one step before swapping to disk would... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

As many of you expected, the new VMware vSphere version is called VMware vSphere 4.1. The hints have been clear these past few weeks and today it became official. Today was the official release and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]