Ravello Systems - and A Bit of Deja Vu
A while back Duncan Epping wrote a wonderful post VMotion, the story and confessions about how people remembered the when they witnessed vMotion for the first time and asked people to add their …
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Subscribe via RSS →VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 Beta
First and foremost I would like to express my public gratitude and thanks to legendary Ulli Hankeln, the Master of Converter and VMDK/VMFS disk dissection/recovery for sticking with this and bugging …
And the Winner is…. You!
So you are all the winners, for participating, for voicing your opinions and making your vote count! Today Eric Siebert posted the results for the top 2013 VMware and Virtualization Blogs. I asked you …
VMware Cloud Cred Program
At VMworld 2012, at the vExpert briefing - we were introduced to an upcoming social idea that VMware were working on - Cloud Cred. Today I received an email from the VMUG organization (screenshot …
VMworld CFP Voting - Needs to be More Transparent
It is around that time of the year again, when VMware puts out the announcement that the Call for Papers for VMworld 2013 and will be open, and then people will start to submit their sessions to get …
How To Deal With a Complex Project
You have been tasked with a task, it could be a long term project, a one-off thing. These usually involve identification of number of tasks and stages that need to be executed in order to complete the …
I Just Bought Some Kitchen Faucets/Hypervisors
A few weeks ago I discovered leak in one of my kitchen faucets. At the time I managed to fix it - but it was evident, it would not hold for long, so I needed to get new ones. The previous ones had …
vCenter Automated Install
So how long does it take you to install vCenter, not using the VCSA, but the Windows package? How many manual steps does it require you to perform? Have you actually ever counted? It is quite a lot. …
Migration Path for the VCSA from vPostgres to.. ??
Wait… there is no way to do that – is there? Today I would like to address a point that is perhaps pretty obvious but not really well known, and that is the lack of a migration path out of the vCenter …
Please do not vote for Me!
Really – I mean it!! The Twitterverse exploded this morning with @ericsiebert’s announcement: Voting now open for the 2013 top VMware & virtualization blogs (Read his post – with detailed …