Planet vSphere-land

Here’s a preview of the Storage section from the upcoming vSphere 5 vReference Card. This is the last section I plan to include, so I hope to get a full beta of the card out in the next week or so.  Formatting can be onerous and usually takes longer than I expect, but it’s not too far off.  I laid it all out last week, but it takes up about 50% more real estate than 2 sides of A4/L...

This year has almost come to an end and what a year it has been. During 2011 VMware released a lot of new great products like vSphere 5, View 5, Workstation 8, Fusion 4, Horizon App Manager, vFabric Data Director, etc. We also visited some amazing events which resulted in great experiences and content. It [...] by Erik Scholten

The past year has been great. I’ve posted 269 articles at ntpro.nl which have been read by many visitors, got certified for both VCAP-DCA and DCD and VCP5. I’ve also received the vExpert and the VMware Certified Instructor Certificate of Achievement Award. Together with Mattias Sundling, I’ve presented well received sessions at the VMworld in Las Vegas and Copenhagen and also at the D...

2011 is almost finished, let’s see how it looked like. The past year was very productive. I was able to kept my posting frequency even if I had too much work for the company I was working for. When I look back at 2011, I can already see several ways that I will be able to improve in 2012. The first think that I see is that I will have more time to write, since I’m not tighten to an...

Well, here we are once again at the end of a very busy, exciting and tiring year.  I get to the end of every year thinking that it had been more hectic and faster than the one before, though this past year has been exceptional both with work commitments and also selling and then moving house.  The result of this has been less time to dedicate to my home lab and also blogging, which ...

There was a total of 14 comments on the Ghetto Reflections 2011 blog post and ...Congratulations to to Comment #3 (NiTRo) Apparently blogger does not allow me to retrieve your email address :( If you are reading this NiTRo, please provide me with your shipping address to the email address found here. Thanks for all the comments and thank you again to all of our readers for your support! Have a h...

2011 was a great year for me from a career / blogging perspective. I moved over from the delivery side (PSO/Cloud Practice) to the “marketing” side. I used quotes as it is technical marketing and our focus is technical enablement. I was a speaker at both VMworld Las Vegas and VMworld Copenhagen. Of course the publication of our new book, vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive. Espec...

The four randomly picked winners of the free book are: Greg Hetrick - comment 30876 Kalle Lund – comment 30929 Fernando - comment 31170 Adam Eckerle - comment 31230 Each of you will receive an email from me shortly asking for your address. I will still need to get Frank to sign them but promise I will ship them asap! Once again, thanks everyone for the kind word! Much appreciated and...

VCP 510 Ressources – not exhaustive list of resources and links. As I need to refresh my VMware VCP certification to the latest vSphere 5 with the VCP 510 exam - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manager [V5.0], I decided to create this blog post where I will put all the available documents and materials together with the experience of users which are already passed this exam. The exp...

Virtual Desktops to enhance your Windows box. By default, Windows 7 or Windows XP does not provides you with the possibility to have multiple desktops. Linux does…-:)  But there are some free cool tools which does it for you. One of them I picked up today and which is really simple to put into place. It supports transparency and resizing so you can practically fit it anywhere. The progr...

This new book will be released at January 11th 2012 and focuses on planning, installing, and maintaining vSphere environments. It is not a verbose documentation-style tome, but rather a comprehensive guide based on the tips, tricks, and gotchas gleaned from the authors' years of experience as vSphere consultants and trainers. The book is separated into four discrete sections: planning, imp...

Happy Holidays! This video is a continuation of my vSphere 5 Video Series, in this video I cover how to properly leverage VMware vSphere 5.0 Auto Deploy to automatically deploy ESXi hosts in your infrastructure. Auto Deploy is a new feature found in the Enterprise Plus edition of vSphere 5, it allows administrators to deploy stateless images that are deployed via gPXE directly to the RAM of the...

- Tuning ESX/ESXi for better storage performance by modifying the maximum I/O block size- ESX has performance issues due to IRQ sharing- Enabling IOAT and Jumbo frames- Troubleshooting network performance issues- Analyzing SCSI Reservation conflicts on VMware Infrastructure 3.x and vSphere 4.x- Determining if multiple virtual CPUs are causing performance issues- Slow performance caused by m...

This video comes from YouTube. The IT administrator fromsungard Higher Education for Seatle University – Matt Buers – tells his showcase when using virtualization for server infrastructure, .They started with VMware at 2004 with server virtualization and they’re virtualized at 80% there. But also recent VMware View deployment for lab PC’s where they deployed 480 virtual...

Change the default port if needed when sharing VMs in VMware Workstation 8 You might run into an issue. A possible conflict when using VMware Workstation on the same computer as Microsoft’s IIS, where IIS might be not starting properly in case configured to run https on port 443. This port is by default used by VMware Workstation 8 which uses this, when sharing Virtual Machines to other ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL! Hope you have a great Christmas and All the Best for 2012 ! More regular content coming this year!  Related posts: vChat – Episode 14 – Christmas and New Year Ramblings Here is Episode 14 of our vChat webcast ‘Christmas and...

Trying to optimize WordPress Database? Free tool might be handy… If you’re like me and run a blogging software on your website, you might read on and have a look at an excellent tool I discovered few weeks ago. This tool is a free plug-in and which optimizes WordPress MySQL database, can delete unwanted (obsolete) auto-save drafts etc… The tool is free because the creator of ...

I can not believe it is that time of the year again! 2011 was a great year for myself and looking back, a lot has changed both in my professional and personal life. As 2011 starts to wind down, here are some interesting stats for this past year. Total number of posts on virtuallyGhetto in 2011: 103Total ghettoVCB pageviews: 600,000k (almost 300k more than 2010)Here were the top 10 blog posts of ...

A little light silliness recorded by one of my daughters :-) Here’s another peep into the house – Susan (my wife) chose to take my “Santa Chad” giveaway stuff to another level :-) As you can see, while we take...

In this video, I show you how to download the free vCloud Connector, deploy the administrative virtual appliance, deploy a vCloud Connector node, use the vCloud Connector plugin, and the vCloud connector website to administer your private virtual infrastructure, private cloud, or public cloud. Stay tuned for my next video in this series on Using the vCloud Connector to create a hybrid cloud and ...

Veeam is once again blessing the community with their generous holiday spirit, which of course includes gifts!  Veeam recently launched version 6 of their flagship Backup and Replication product which now includes support for Microsoft Hyper-V.  Those who are heavily active in the Microsoft and/or VMware community and formally recognized as such, are eligible to register for their free gift fr...

This month four years ago I created my own blog. Yes indeed, Yellow-Bricks.com had its 4th birthday this month. I want to thank all of you for contributing to the success of Yellow-Bricks by commenting / emailing / tweeting etc. As a token of my appreciation I want to give away 4 copies (paper version) of the vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive. What do you need to do? Not much! Just leave a...

HD_Speed measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your virtual disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc, and offers a realtime graphical display. Download

VMware View 5  – Troubleshooting composer error Virtual Machine with Input Specification already exists When playing in my lab with VMware View 5, I did a lot of kind of stuff to test about everything. It means I did what I would not do in production environment normally, or what you should not normally do. And I managed to “broke” the link between a desktop VM and VMware Vi...

I just wanted to send everyone a bit of Christmas Cheer! Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig KerstfeestEnglish: Merry ChristmasGerman: Fröhliche WeihnachtenFrench: Joyeux NoelFlemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaarGreek: Kala Christouyenna!Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim GodomSpanish: Feliz NavidadThai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan w...