I received the following email below and I think it might interest you. It’s a free online cloud computing summit with 10 webcasts varying from OVF to Security to Monetizing. Although not mentioned below one of the people presenting is Edward Haletky of AstroArch Consulting and of course the VMTN Community Forums and podcast. Here’s the info I received, I’m [...]

I still owed you guys something. Here’s the list of the people that where awarded the VCDX certification during the VMware TS vSummit 2009 in San Francisco: John Arrasjid (US) Mostafa Khalil (US) Kamau Wanguhu(US) Andrew Hald (US) Mahesh Rajani (US) Craig Risinger (US) Duncan Epping (Netherlands) Richard Damoser (Germany) The vSummit award dinner was on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately Spencer [...]

One of the most controversial blog articles I wrote over the last couple of months definitely was the “Hyper-V crashes youtube movie“  post. The amount of response I had on this post and the follow-up “Will you fight or will you run” was amazing. Of course people where divided in two “camps”, either you liked the post or thought it [...]

If I can find the time I will test it today and add some screenshots to this post. You can get it here. Here are the release notes: This version of Kodiak represents a significant change in our server-communication architecture. We’ve added a schema-compliant request/argument builder engine that populates requests based on known information. This makes building requests much easier. [...]

I just received a very useful email on a VMware internal mailing list and thought I would share it with you guys. Here’s the question: I want to update ESXi U3 to U4. My ESXi contains specific vendor modules for monitoring. (HP for instance) When I do the updates will these modules be removed or will they be upgraded? And [...]

I had a discussion on block sizes after the post on thin-provisioned disks with some of my colleagues. For those that did not read this post here’s a short recap: If you create a thin provisioned disk on a datastore with a 1MB blocksize the thin provisioned disk will grow with increments of 1MB. Hopefully you can see where I’m [...]

Hyper9 gave me 15 Special Beta invites for VMM for the first 15 people that comment on this post. (Please use a valid email address!) If you comment you will get a Hyper9 t-Shirt (in exchange for VMM beta feedback), a 50% discount should you choose to purchase and have a chance of winning a mobile device in a contest [...]