Aligning the Business Goals With Your Own
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague of mine last week. We were talking about goals and targets. Let me first start with a question. Do you know what your company’s goals are for …
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Subscribe via RSS →What is this vSEL thing anyway?
As of late I have seen multiple mentions of vSEL – and always by VMware employees. So what is this vSEL that they are talking about? Google led me to some answers. Hany Michael (now a VMware employee) …
IBM ESXi Customized Offline Bundle
Oh….. how I have searched for this… For hours… really. And to just come across this by chance today. Duh! Search for a customized bundle for HP hardware and it is very easy to find. Try the same …
Things I Don’t Like About the vCenter Virtual Appliance
VMware are looking to move everything to a virtual appliance model. That is pretty obvious. And of course the most central component is your vCenter, I wrote a post a while back about Should You Patch …
Completing the Missing Piece in the VMware HA Puzzle
I cannot remember the number of times I have been saved by VMware High Availability. To protect an application in my datacenter from hardware failure has never been easier. Just put your VM in a …
ESXi Shell history
Someone asked me this question this week – how do I see the history of my commands in the the ESXi shell? There is no history command on an ESXi host.. So how do you go about getting the history of …
OpenIndiana Installation walkthrough - Part 4
This is Part 4 of a series of posts explaining how to configure OpenIndiana as NAS storage device. The series is made up of the following parts: Background information about OpenIndiana and OS …
Something Awesome from Veeam
So if you have not heard by now Veeam have released the 6.1 version of Veeam Backup & Replication. Here are some of the new features VeeamZIP Version 6.1 includes a new capability for performing …
Which sessions I voted for - VMworld 2012
1222 sessions – That is a lot. How do you wade through that amount? That is what the filter is there for. So you can filter out the sessions on several criteria – but to do everyone justice – I …
VMworld Call for Papers Voting is Live
The voting for VMworld Call for Papers is now Open. Cody Bunch and myself have submitted a session – based on the customer stories behind the vExpert HoL that we are designing for the upcoming …