- I come from a land down under… - [If you want to read the lyrics - go off to the youtube page, and the lyrics are there as well.] Sorry, I know that’s a less than classy blogpost title. This all about VMUG’s in Oz, and I’m not think of Dorothy and Munkins by the way… I’m hoping to attend/speak at both the [...]
- Welcome to the Hotel California… - Well, I’ve been busy again. Not content with finishing up my book on SRM 5.0 – and also when that is done working on SRM I will be co-authoring a VMware View 5.0 book. Last week I started a 3rd book! I had some downtime between submitting the 1st manuscript of SRM 5.0 to the [...]
- Irish VMUG Meeting – Thursday, August 18, 2011 - Please to announce that registrations are now open for the Irish VMUG which takes place next Thursday at: Dell Inc. Raheen Business Park Building: Auditorium Limerick, Ireland The Agenda includes: 11:00 a.m. – Pre-Lab Registration 11:30 a.m. – 10 Stations, Two People Per Station 1:00 p.m. – Non-Lab Registration and Lunch 1:30 p.m. – Introduction [...]
- Resetting Orange HomePlug Devices [AKA Devolo] - I have two DLAN devices on my home network. They are branded as Orange HomePlug, but learned today they are actually rebrands Devolo dLAN units. A couple of weeks ago they gave up the ghost and stopped communicating. I have one plugged into my WiFi router at the ground floor of my house, and one [...]
- My first bowl of vSoup - Last week it was my pleasure to take part in my first ever vSoup podcast hosted by none other than Chris Dearden, Ed Czerwin and Christian Mohn. We discussed the following topics: VMware User Groups VMware SRM VMworld 2011 Band: The Killers vBeers vSphere Storage Appliance Recorded before VMware’s recent up dates to their vRAM [...]
- United Kingdom VMUG User Conference – Nov 3rd, 2011 - It’s my pleasure to announce the date for the very first UK wide VMware User Group Conference. This has been in gestation for sometime, and its basically a user group of user groups. With all the main user groups in our region coming together for the very first time. This is very much like the [...]
- Vendorwag – vKernel – Bryan Semple [Epidsode 59] - I’ve been meaning to have vKernel on the vendorwag for sometime (well, months and months actually). Back in June I had chance to hear them present at the Boston TechField Day arranged by Stephen Foskett. So it was an opportunity to become reacquainted again. On top of watching them present at the TFD, I made [...]
- Deadline: Best of VMworld 2011 Awards - In case you don’t know the deadline for submissions for the “Best of VMWorld 2011 Awards” is TODAY. Yes, today. Better get your skates on! Hosted by TechTarget and SearchServerVirtualization.com, the Best of VMworld 2011 Awards will take place during VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. The awards ceremony will take place from 2:30 to 3 [...]
- VMware to Support Microsoft HyperV - Ah ha, I thought that would get your attention. A shameless attempt by an inflammatory title to draw your attention to a plug-in… Perhaps I should worked for a tabloid red-top… Sadly, its not exactly true. There is however, a new VMware Fling on VMware Labs that allows to add non-VMware Hypervisors to vCenter. Currently, [...]
- Citrix: Floating Anonymous Users - Yes, I know “floating anonymous users” brings forth this image of total strangers hovering over cubes in the offices trying to login to your system. It’s actually a turn of phrase I picked up on when I was last at Citrix offices in Dublin last year – getting my head around how XenApp, XenServer and [...]