My Wish for dvFabric – a dvSwitch for Storage
This one has been sitting with me for a while. It would be nice to hear your comments on this. The dvSwitch (Distributed Virtual Switch) – oh how it has changed our lives… Do you all remember the days …
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It seems like only yesterday when the last survey was conducted, and I was actually not going to write this post – because I hate “me too” posts. So let us try and do this slightly differently. On my …
InventorySnapshot Fling Updated
Personally I think this is one of the most useful Fling’s I have come across. For those of you who do not know what a fling is… A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a …
System Center 2012 Resources – Say How Much?
Of course this is not a GA product (yet). Hyper-V 3.0 is not GA (yet). So this is all theoretical and in the future. Microsoft is about to starting to push their Private Cloud offering. The first …
VMjuggler–the PowerCLI version
I was tasked with testing the throughput of the vMotion network between two hosts - to see how much of the throughput was / could be used. Now I remembered that there was an application that someone …
Internet Access is needed to Install vCLI 5.0
I came a cross a case this week that I thought would be worthwhile sharing. A client needed to install the vCLI on a Linux machine, and this machine was behind a firewall that was blocking access to …
Mercedes Benz and BYOD
I spent a week in meetings with our global IT group in the UK last month. It is always good to see the people face to face that you interact with on a regular basis and build those personal …
vKernel vOPS 4.5 Launched
vKernel announced the release of version 4.5 of their vOperations Suite today. What’s New: New Automation Features - vOPS’ automation capabilities are enhanced with auto-deletion of abandoned VM …
VMware AppSpeed to be Retired
This is the excerpt of a message I received yesterday.(the highlights and graphics are my own) Dear Maish, We want to provide you with an important update about the VMware® vCenter AppSpeed™ product. …
Restarting vCenter Services - with PowerShell
Has it ever happened that you need to restart a vCenter service? I guess that you have been there before. Once upon a time I wrote a post that mentioned that there are not enough tools available today …