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One of the things I’ve been tuning into on BBC Radio4 is the serialization of the now famous “Bob Servant” emails on the radio. In case you don’t know – Bob Servant is a fictional creation of Neil Forsyth – who took into his head to reply to those regular emails you get from bereaved Nigerian Princes who need help moving millions of dollars out of accounts, or...

We’re less than twelve hours away from 2011 and we’re bombarded with Top 2010 rankings. And with a great 2010 behind us I can’t resist to do a VMGuru – Best of 2010. My personal highlights for 2010 are my new job at Imtech, the trip to VMworld Europe in Copenhagen and of course the [...] by Erik Scholten

My colleague Eric Gray blogged about “VCritical’s” top 10 this morning and I figured why not do the same… here we go: While many posts from previous years have proven to be evergreen, and among the most heavily trafficked, these are the top posts on Yellow-Bricks published in 2010: ESXTOP VMotion, the story and confessions What’s the point of setting “-iops=...

There are post which gets more traffic then the others. Why? This post will not invent anything, I had the most busy year ever with my VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen, which was a nice break from work but very intense with no rest there… and,  the end of the year is the busiest ever with a move to the new company’s building at the Technopole area with new IP telephony system ...

As the year comes to a close, let’s take a look back at some VCritical highlights. I was pleased to earn recognition as a top virtualization influencer and managed to hold on to a spot in the vSphere-land Top 25 VMware Blogs roster.  This year I also published The VCritical Manifesto to clearly disclose my motivation. Before getting into the lists, I’d like to thank the readers, sub...

Dave Gray » Q-tools: An approach for discovery and knowledge work This post describes some "Q-tools," or tools for organizing, understanding, and using information through specific types of questions.

Looking back on 2010, it is hard to believe that virtuallyGhetto was created only 7 months ago. Instead of writing a long post, we thought we would share with you some of the highlights and favorite blog posts/scripts of 2010:Here were the highlights for virtuallyGhetto in 2010:May 31st - virtuallyGhetto says hello to the blogosphere June 25th - virtuallyGhetto is part of the esteemed VMware Pla...

Welcome to Technology Short Take #9, the last Technology Short Take for 2010. In this Short Take, I have a collection of links and articles about networking, servers, storage, and virtualization. Of note this time around: some great DCI links, multi-hop FCoE finally arrives (sort of), a few XenServer/XenDesktop/XenApp links, and NTFS defragmentation in the virtualized data center. Here you go...

VAAI available for Eternus DX400 /DX8000. Support of vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) announced from Fujitsu. You can read the whole post here. The VAAI enhances the performances of Eternus Storage Systems. The latest firmware from Fujitsu is required for the plugin to function. The firmware and plugin are provided free of charge. VAAI brings some CPU reduction during vMotio...

What a year it has been. From just a personal level 2010 has been my banner year so far. I have got more done, met more cool people, had more fun, and learned more than I would have ever thought possible. Here is just a short list of things that have happened for me (in no particular order) Left my career as a customer and joined EMC in the vSpecialist squad Created the UBER Celerra VSA (and ac...

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this BIOS setting, I receive lots of questions on whether to enable or disable Node interleaving. I guess the term “enable” make people think it some sort of performance enhancement. Unfortunately the opposite is true and it is strongly recommended to keep the default setting and leave Node Interleaving disabled. Node interleaving option only on NU...

Error when trying to use CIFS share as a destination for backup. If you’re trying to setup Windows CIFS as a destination deduplication store for your VMware VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance, you might run into an error. It’s an error which you can see at the console of the VDR appliance: Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE CIFS VFS: Send error in S...

Check out the minor update to the popular vSphere Health Check Script, now at v4.1.5, there was a minor typo issue that has now been resolved.The vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guide has gotten a few updates from VMware since it's initial draft released back in January this year. The latest version includes a few revisions and my vSphere Security Hardening Report script v0.2 has not gotten an ...

I recently jumped in to help my team create a vAppliance for Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM). This was to help enable both the EMC and Cisco field teams to demo and standup proof of concepts. As part of this I decided to try and create a web-only wizard for setting up the appliance. I used a combination of PHP/Perl/Bash and smashing my head on the keyboard. I made a short uber-video (just c...

I was inspired to try a full install of the Androidx86 OS in a VMware Workstation VM after Eric Sloof created a video of the Androidx86 LiveCD running in a vSphere VM. I’ve documented building the VM and configuring it to run in this post. I also list some navigation tips for getting around inside Androidx86. Finally check out my video of the working VM. Since most are probably wondering I�...

One of our partners was playing around with vCloud Director and noticed that they could create a Provider vDC and link it directly to an ESX Host. vCloud Director did not complain about it so they figured it would be okay. However it is a requirement for vCloud Director to have DRS. One of the reasons for this being is the fact that vCloud Director leverages resource pools to ensure tenants rece...

This is just a quick post to share a behind the scenes video I shot of the recording of the Chad’s World theme song: Hope you enjoy: Chad’s World Theme Song .nick Related Posts:Creating a vApp : UBER UIMBeing a vSpec : One year under the beltInteractive Cloud Video : Chad Sakac Demo / VMware PEX 2011Fistful of Cloud : Interactive Cloud DemoUBERShell : Ninja Scripting

Error when assigning static IP adress to your NIC card. I’m sure that you’re already saw this message. The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter. Name of adapter is hidden from the network and Dial-up Connections folder because it is not physically in the computer or is a legacy adap...

John Troyer recently rounded up 3/4 of the Infosmack family for episode 122 of his VMTN Communities Roundtable Podcast. Join Greg Knieriemen, Rick Vanover and I as we reminisce about podcasts past from 2010, and then make some virtualization and cloud predictions for 2011. As always, John’s show is live, so many others join in the fun. Listen to the episode in the embedded player here, or g...

Just before Christmas VMware has released two new technical papers. The first one goes in-depth on best practices for running Allscripts Emergency Department (ED) on VMware vSphere. The seconds one is about configuration examples and troubleshooting for VMDirectPath. Deployment Guide: Best Practices for Running Allscripts Emergency Department (ED) on VMware vSphereThis document provides dir...

Happy Holiday season and X-mass time. In this winter holiday season I just would like to wish a very happy X-mass to all readers of ESX Virtualization. It’s been a great pleasure to write and share all news from virtualization industry on this modest website…. Hopefully I’ll keep my writing schedule and provide you guys with a fresh content as often as I can. But as...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL! Hope you have a great Christmas and All the Best for 2011 ! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Add this to Google Bookmarks Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Tweet This! Get Shareaholic Related pos...

I’d like to take this moment to wish all of my readers a very happy, very joyous, and very blessed Christmas holiday. Don’t forget the reason for the season (Luke 2:10-11)! If you don’t celebrate Christmas, then I wish you a very happy holiday season! This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storag...

There was a pretty interesting post on the VMTN community forums recently in which a user was trying to identify a rogue vSphere login to their vCenter Server. Unfortunately, the actual user was not able to pin-point which system was logging in with his/her credentials. This potentially could have been some type of automated script that was configured and running and now has been forgotten. The ...

This year I won’t send any Christmas and happy new year cards. Instead of sending those cards I will support the Net4kids foundation. As an ambassador for Net4kids I’m proud to see that the money this foundation receives is well spent on important projects . Net4kids is the internet market place for child aid projects. With Net4kids you choose for concrete child aid rather than ano...