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Will we be Forced to Pay More?

VMware announce their licensing changes and I wrote about it in a previous post. I noticed something on a document that (I gather) was released by VMware Marketing and brought to the blogosphere by …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Say Hello to vSphere PowerCLI

So all the buzz have quieted down – I think have approx 600% less traffic coming in through Twitter than I had yesterday. All the news about the products names – version changes etc. etc. But I do not …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VI Toolkit
3 min read

Is P2V always the best solution?

I saw this post post on Simon Gallagher’s Blog Using Virtualization to Extend The Hardware Lifecycle. Simon made a good point. Can we take the physical hardware out of the equation? Well I guess …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
1 min read

Not another esxtop post ...

Well Actually yes. Because there is so much useful information about this reporting and troubleshooting tool, I wanted to add my own. I was pointed to very useful document regarding esxtop. Granted it …

  • Virtualization
  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
5 min read

vCenter 2.5 U4 – My take….

Well I have been meaning to put up my experiences out on the web about what has happened with my attempts (and partial success) with the installation of vCenter 2.5 U4. Now for me the nicest new …

  • Administration
  • VMware
  • ESX
  • Troubleshooting
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GuessMyOS Plug-in from H9Labs

So it seems that Andrew Kutz is having a nice time since he joined Hyper9. He has released a new plug-in for all our use. So what does it do? It changes the icons for the VM that you have to reflect …

  • Virtualization
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • ESX
3 min read

vSphere Beta and the NDA

In the past 2 weeks or so there has been a lot of info that is starting to be posted about the next generation of ESX. Just to name a few Duncan Epping, Eric Sloof, Rich Brambley, MalaysiaVM, have all …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Azure… and Hyper-V

Last week Azure went down for 22 hours – and this Microsoft’s Cloud solution. Reading Hoff’s post I learned that the reason that this happened was: What Happened? During a routine operating system …

  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Hyper-V
  • Windows
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VMware vCenter Mobile Access

So today a little surprise was released by VMware, vCenter Mobile Access. Below is a short demo released with the announcement. A small excerpt from the product overview: Ever wish you could restart a …

  • Virtualization
  • VMotion
  • Appliances
  • Miscellaneous
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SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta

I found this in my inbox this morning ( I saw that this was mentioned here as well: Dear SCVMM beta tester, As a past beta tester of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 software, we wanted …

  • Microsoft
  • Server
  • Virtualization
  • Windows