Kodiak is a cross platform application(Windows, Linux, Mac) with which you can manage your virtual environment. Why would one want to use this instead of the VIC? Well you can run it from your Linux box without having to run a VM. What do you need? Well I tested it with Ubuntu and Windows and [...]

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I just received my beta invite for Bluebear’s Kodiak and will be testing it today. I am downloading a brand new Ubuntu 8.0.4 virtual appliance and will keep you guys up to date on this multi platform VirtualCenter management client.
If anyone wants an invite to the beta program than just drop your email here, or [...]

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As some of you know I spend a lot of time on the VMTN forums, helping people out and learning from other experts. Today someone posted about Storage VMotion not working after a Service Console IP change. It reminded me of a problem I faced a while ago. The solution wasn’t obvious but fairly easy, [...]

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I see this a lot, and I also made the same mistake for a long time, because of the defaults of the ESX installer a lot of people tend to create a partition for /var/log. But keep in mind this means that everything else inside /var will belong to the root file system.
So what’s the [...]

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Lately I’ve been reading all these blog and news articles that deal about the key message of VMworld: Cloud Computing. A lot of the journalists and blog writers didn’t pay attention during the Keynotes because they keep coming back to the fact that a lot of companies want to keep control of their data. Companies [...]

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So lately I’ve also joined the Twitter Hype, if you want to follow my micro blogging: http://twitter.com/depping. Maybe I’ll add a nice Twitter icon on the right if I can find the time…

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A couple of days ago I linked to Mike D. response to Marathon’s blogs. Mike has updated his original blog article and added a second article which responds to another blog by Marathon. Those who are interested in the difference between Marathon’s and VMware’s products should definitely read it. Especially if you’ve only read the [...]

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