VMware vSphere design - the book
This is a joint post of three prominent writers in the virtualization community: Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe and Maish Saidel-Keesing. For the past 6 months we have been working on a joint project. It …
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Subscribe via RSS →Do You Really Need the vMA?
This post was triggered by a very informative conversation I had with William Lam this week. Thanks William! vMA - vSphere Management Assistant, is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 2
Continuing the problem from part 1. Over the past 8 months this template has been updated with Microsoft security patches (released once a month) and during that time the template OS was activated - …
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 3
I would close up what we have learned from part 1 and part 2. During my work with the VMware Support on this case, one of the questions I asked, was is it possible to to inject a parameter into the …
A milestone - 1000 Twitter Followers
Wow! When I joined on: Thu 21 Aug 2008 07:23 I would have never thought that anyone would actually have much interest in what I have to say, evidently I was wrong. On to the next 1000!! W00t!!!
Windows 7/2008 Deployment - KMS and MAK Keys pt. 1
I have been dealing with an issue that has been bugging me for quite a while. It has to do with the deployment of Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 VM’s and License Activation. First let’s …
I am a delegate - Gestalt IT Tech Field Day 5
I was honored to receive an email last night from Stephen Foskett offering me a spot on on the next Tech Field Day in February in San Jose. I am happy to be able to accept the offer, so I will …
What do you use for your VMware monitoring?
I would be interested in hearing your opinions on what you use for monitoring your VMware environment. I am conducting a study on what tools you find useful for monitoring and Capacity …
Virtualization Challenges in 2011: Under Blogger Scrutiny
I wanted to give you a heads-up on a webcast that will be held on Wednesday January 12th, 2011 09.00 GMT You are all cordially invited to join, it should be an interesting talk! Gary Thornton, Simon …
ESXi has a 32mb Memory footprint
I was listening to an very interesting presentation this evening from Olivier Cremel, Principal Engineer ESXi Internals: Better Understanding for Better Management and Troubleshooting The ESXi …