Rescuing A Poor Performing VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Does your VMware vSphere Environment require First Aid? Rescuing A Poor Performing VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure About 4 years ago I was hired by a firm to help rescue …
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More than 20 Free Configuration and Monitoring Tools From Manage Engine
Free Monitoring Tools from Manage Engine I’m always looking out for great tools for managing VMware Infrastructure and I think I hit the jackpot on the ManageEngine website. They …
Single Pane Of Glass – SPOG Window
As of this post, Google search shows 1,080,000 results for Single Pane Of Glass and the top result shows a basic definition. In the last 2 years, I heard …
10 Things I Remember About VMWorld 2011 – Cloud, vCoud Director, AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi 5, Thin Storage and More…
10 Things I Remember About VMWorld 2011- Cloud, vCoud Director, AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi 5, Thin Storage and More… A lot more than 10 things happened in 2011, …
Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks
Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks Read more reviews… I have often thought of writing my own book on “things not to do” when building …
Practice Makes for the Best Virtual Environments
I really do think the Best Virtual Environment are Designed and Maintained by the Best Virtualization Engineers because “practice does make perfect.” This post is dedicated to my friend’s, …
vSphere 5 Licenses Change
There’s a lot to consider when you decide to upgrade previous versions of ESX to vSphere 5. Take some time to read the following PDF “vSphere 5 pricing and …
Free Copy of VMWorkstation When You Pass VCP Exam
It’s been a while since I received my free copy of VMWorkstation for passing the VCP 3.0 certification exam. And, come to find out VMware gives a copy of …
Cloud.com is now part of Citrix Systems!
Today I got this email and it reminded me that I met with the owner of Cloud.com at VMWorld last year and asked him who would eventually own Cloud.com …
VMware SWAP File Best Practice
Answering the question that always seems to get asked, “what is the best practice for the VMware SWAP file?” I’ve put this method through bench testing and found it …