- vSphere 5 License Advisor Available - Following on the vSphere 5 License adjustment, VMware recently released the vSphere 5 License Advisor. This is a tool that you can use to run against your vSphere 4.1, vSphere 4.0, or Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 deployments to understand how the vSphere 5 vRAM licensing entitlement will affect your installation. Note: I’ve heard some comments that [...]
- VMware Listened: vSphere 5 Licensing Changes - So VMware announced a change in licensing with vSphere 5…the customers reacted…and VMware listened and adjusted the licensing in about 3 weeks. Quite a rarity in the enterprise software industry… When I talked to my clients about the licensing changes that were coming with vSphere 5, the reaction wasn’t really one of shock to a [...]
- VMware Cloud Foundry & The Enterprise Programmer - Three weeks ago VMware announced and launched Cloud Foundry (right before I went on vacation, one of the reasons for the delay in this post). An open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to support multiple programming models and multiple clouds for eventual deployment to. In the past three short week Cloud Foundary has [...]
- Running Legacy Workloads on vSphere - Here is an interesting video from Andy where he took the time to show the history of upgrading through each version of MS Windows by actually doing that inside a VMware VM! Sure this video is interesting from the “wow, I remember that OS…how far we’ve come” aspect. But I find it more interesting from the “a current [...]
- Universe Dots on Parenting - This past weekend, I was feeding Matthew when he fell asleep in my arms. As I’ve gotten into the habbit of doing during these moments, I catch up on my blog reading thanks to the iPad and Matthew both fitting in my lap at the same time (for now). In the course of my blog [...]
- Holiday Stocking Stuffers for the VMware Admin - I hope that your holiday’s are already in full swing! If you have a VMware Administrator on your holiday shopping list (or you are one and haven’t bought yourself a present yet) I recently came across a few books that may help. vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive A new book from Duncan Epping [...]
- Return of the Virtualization Round Up - Regular readers will have realized a couple of things: Posts have been a little slow lately…still adapting to family life and focusing on building out some new family infrastructure. I plan on getting back to a more regular posting habit within a few months. The Virtualization Round Up posts have stopped…they actually just move to [...]
- Welcoming Matthew - VMworld is over, and my biggest concern was skirted…that Baby Mini-G (who was due just after Labor Day) wouldn’t arrive early while I was in San Francisco at VMworld. Skirted…but just. Matthew arrive the day after VMworld to both mine and my wife’s surprise. And after talking to the delivery nurse we’re glad we weren’t the [...]
- Heading Out of the Redwoods Toward the Horizon - Scheduled meetings, hallway meetings, random meetings of chance, checking in on the Mrs. to make sure Baby Mini-G is still holding to his schedule (t-minus 5 days-ish). Quite the busy vmworld 2010, and that was just the first official day. Tuesday’s keynote was a great introduction to VMware’s long term vision to the new three [...]
- Getting Ready for VMworld 2010 (Are You?) - VMworld 2010 San Francisco is set to start in just four weeks (August 30th – September 2nd). This year’s VMworld is already shaping up to be a killer event. Compared to last year’s VMworld, I personally am seeing a 500+% increase in the number of clients of mine who are signed up to attend. The [...]
- vSphere 4.1 Hidden Gem: Host Affinity Rules - During the vSphere 4.1 beta period, two of my clients were very interested in the new Host Affinity Rules for issues they were having. The day vSphere 4.1 was released I had a call to discuss Host Affinity Rules with another client to explore issues they were having that host affinity rules could solve. Each [...]
- VMware Releases vSphere 4.1 & Licensing Changes - Today is the big day that vSphere 4.1 is finally released. This dot release is jam packed with new features that some of my clients have been testing for the past six months in beta. The ones that have been strongly received by my enterprise clients include: Increased vSphere scalability (2-3x increase in vCenter scale, [...]
- Will Be at Raleigh, NC VMUG on 7/15 - I happen to find myself in the RTP area this week, the same week as a Raleigh VMUG. So I’ll be attending this week’s lunch event, any readers plan on being there? There will be some new interesting stuff to discuss by then…
- Virtualization Round Up 20100608 - I know it’s been a long drought of round ups out here on the range…which means I have a rather larger backlog of items to share, some of these might be items you came across earlier but I thought were worth repeating. With all the projects and activities I have going on (and unfortunately for [...]
- iPad For Consumers - Part 3 of my iPad (32GB, WIFI, iPhone OS 3.2) review: General Review List of Areas for Improvement iPad for Consumers (here) iPad for Business Users iPad for Photographers My Current Favorite iPad Apps (9/29 Update: Parental preparation and then adaptation has kept me from finishing this series on the iPad. Once home life stabilizes in a few months [...]
- iPad Review Areas for Improvement - Part 2 of my iPad (32GB, WIFI, iPhone OS 3.2) Review: General Review List of Areas for Improvement (here) iPad for Consumers iPad for Business Users iPad for Photographers My Current Favorite iPad Apps So while working on the iPad, there are a number of small gotchas and issues that I found and have documented [...]
- iPad Review After 2 Weeks of Use - The iPad is primarily about media consumption, not creation. The potential is there for more, but it’s up to the apps and OS to still realize it. After 2 week of usage while at home, on the road, and at the office, this is the most succinct summary i have been able to come up [...]
- VMware DPM & Data Center Monitoring Tools - In the past I’ve written about the DPM capabilities within vSphere. I’m seeing more and more of my clients starting to implement DPM within their enterprise production data centers. As they do, the issue of integrating DPM with their data center monitoring tools keep coming up. How do you prevent your data center monitoring tools [...]
- Watch Out For The VMware Express - Coming soon to a City near you, the VMware Express…. As part of the Virtualization Tour 2010, keep your eye our for the VMware Express semi truckin’ down the highway or as part of various industry events. Check out the tour website to see what dates it may be near you and register for an [...]
- Employee Owned IT – Security Holds it Back - Yesterday was the VMware Community Roundtable discussion on View which featured VMware’s own John Dodge. If you haven’t participated or listened into one of the roundtables, this is a great one for those who are doing or thinking about virtual desktops. At one point the discussion turned to Employee Owned IT (EOIT) and offline desktops within [...]