VMware released version 1.5 of the VI Toolkit for Windows today! Most of you probably already read about it by now, if you didn’t here is the download link, and the link to the release notes. So much have been added that it would be pointless to blog about all the changes, 32 new cmdlets and 25 new options for [...]
Almost a year ago I wrote an article on a CBT by Train Signal. I really enjoyed watching the CBT and that says a lot coming from someone that never used to be a CBT fan. In the end the ease of learning when and wherever you want is what convinced me. Another reason to use a CBT instead of [...]
Update your bookmarks or add the following blog to your RSS Reader: Flickerdown.com by Dave Graham! Dave is a technical consultant with EMC. As you can imagine Dave’s blog articles mainly deal about Storage and storage related topics like FCoE and 10GbE. But Dave also writes about the Cloud, which is also heavily tied to Shared Storage of course. I [...]
Mike D was the first one that actually wrote a powershell quick migration script that exactly does the same as Microsofts Quick Migration. (Suspend on host 1, Resume on host 2.) Yesterday William Lam emailed me about a script that he created that actually does the same as Mike D’s script. But, William’s script was specifically designed for ESXi and [...]
I’ve just created a new Page. This page will also deal about VMware HA. I threw all my “deepdive” posts into one page which makes it easier to find for you guys and search engines. But most important, easier to maintain. When I’ve got more technical in-depth information I will add it to the page. Check it out and let [...]
I was just reading an excellent weekly technical digest by VMware’s Michael White and noticed the mention of a KB article on SRM. This KB article has the following describtion: With VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1, recovery of a VM might take a long time. The recovery time during a test or real recovery will be longer when [...]
The Jolicloud that is. Jolicloud is an initiative by Tariq Krim and is a heavily modified and probably JeOS version of Linux. It’s designed to run on Netbooks and I think the interface looks amazing it kinda reminds me of the iPhone interface. We love netbooks: they are cheap, compact, light and always connected via 3G. What we didn’t like [...]
