The VMware Developer Communities have been overhauled and in such a way that Chip Foose would be proud. It contains all automation(SDK&API) related forums and documents including the sample code section! Another new feature I like is the “Hero Spotlight” section which currently features William Lam, Hal Rottenberg, Mike Giles and Luc Dekens. Just visit this new section of the [...]
Brent Ozar approached me a couple of weeks ago about a new project he was working on as part of the Professional Association For SQL Server named “The Virtualization Virtual Chapter”. Brent wants to get DBAs acquainted with virtualization and all the caveats and strings attached to it. There’s no better and easier way of course then by simply syndicating [...]
Greg Lato, one of my VMware colleagues, announced an interesting project today. Greg is a, as he states on his photography website, self-taught photographer and loves photographing basically anything. As thousands of people will be attending VMworld Greg thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to do several portrait shoots. I think it’s a great initiative and anyone who [...]
Scott Drummonds just posted a new blog article which deals about an upcoming VMware PSO offering. When Scott Drummonds is involved you know the topic of this offering is performance. In this case it’s performance related to SQL databases and I/O bottlenecks, which is probably the most reported issue. As Scott explains briefly they were able to identify the issue [...]
A few weeks ago @jasonboche and myself discussed doing a daily run during VMworld. This single tweet evolved into something no one expected… “Run the Golden Gate Bridge” event. After several discussions with David Davis from Train Signal we decided that because of the huge amount of people interested and several positive reactions for sponsoring that VMware / VMworld should [...]
I regularly check William Lam’s section on the VMTN communities. William is definitely one of the most active contributors in terms of perl / vMA scripting. William wrote the famous ghettoVCB script which basically enables you to do full image level backups of your VMs. But that’s not the only script William wrote. He’s also written scripts for creating screenshots [...]
This is the whitepaper I’ve been waiting for. By now we all know that the CPU Scheduler has changed. The only problem is that there wasn’t any official documentation about what changed and where we would benefit. Well this has changed. VMware just published a new whitepaper titled “The CPU Scheduler in VMware® ESX™ 4“. The CPU scheduler in VMware [...]
