Yellow-Bricks.com is proud to announce a brand new sponsor; Train Signal! Train Signal is the leading provider of computer training software for IT Professionals covering Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and VMware. Now I could write an article praising Train Signal but there’s no point. I don’t need to convince you guys Train Signal should. David Davis(one of Train Signal’s instructors) recently [...]

I visit the VMTN Communities daily and recently noticed a new section called Code Central. I didn’t pay attention to it cause I thought it was a private section but apparently it is not. Nava Davuluri introduced this new section and his role within VMware recently in a blog article: I’m Nava Davuluri, a new hire into Product Marketing. This [...]

A question that pops up on the VMTN Community once every day is what size VMFS datastore should I create? The answer always varies,  one says “500Gb” the other says “1TB”. Now the real answer should be, it depends. Most companies can use a simple formula in my opinion. First you should answer these questions: What’s the maximum amount of [...]

I run VMware Workstation at home because ESX doesn’t have drivers for my SATA controller. After a motherboard failure I had to reconstruct my software RAID, and this morning I tried to recreate a virtual disk I use for saving images of my laptop. Previously it was approximately 140Gb in size; after a rearrange the parition is 237Gb, so I [...]

Long before people ever heard about the VI Toolkit the ESX Healthcheck ruled the earth. The ESX Healthcheck script used the esxcfg-* commands in the Service Console and dumped all the info into a html file. Today a new version of ESX Healthcheck has been released(0.30) after two years of silence. It has taken them a long time but it’s [...]

As you know I did the final part of the VCDX certification in San Francisco during the VMware Technical Services vSummit. I wanted to share my experience with you so you know what to expect to a certain degree and more importantly get the word out in general. The last part of the VCDX certification is the defense. In short: [...]

Eric Siebert just added a poll to his website. This time it’s not Eric who picks the top 5 VMware blogs but it is you, the reader! I have a hard time picking the top blogs from the many great ones that are out there. I initially started with a top 10 and recently expanded it to the top 20 [...]