Many people have already asked for this as amazon’s shipping is slow or too expensive. After a short discussion we decided to also make the vSphere Quick Start Guide available via lulu.com. Lulu has printing shops in Europe which makes shipping a lot faster and a bit cheaper. We are also currently discussing a PDF version of the book…. more [...]
John Arrasjid just tweeted that the VCDX Workshop has been approved and will take place on Sunday 7th of February at 13:00 – 15:00 during VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas. Source VCDX Tips: The VCDX Preparation Workshop has been approved for Partner Exchange ’10. Sunday from 1-3pm, February 7th. If you happen to go to PEX and are working [...]
The last weeks have been crazy. As you know we’ve been working hard to get the vSphere Quick Start Guide out. Last week it was finally officially released and up on Amazon. It has been doing great and thanks to all of you who bought a copy and of course thanks to Vizioncore and EMC we already sold over 1000 [...]
I’ve been following William Lam‘s VMTN account in my RSS reader for a while as William regularly releases useful scripts. Lately he has been pumping iron and releasing new scripts or new versions of scripts on an almost daily basis. One of the most useful scripts that William released lately is “getvSwitchMacTable.pl”. Make sure to add William to you RSS [...]
For those still on ESX 3.5 VMware has just released Update 5. Here are the full release notes, you can find the download here and make sure to read which issues have been resolved. What’s New? Notes: Not all combinations of VirtualCenter and ESX Server versions are supported. All of these highlighted features are available only if you are using VirtualCenter [...]
I am working on a large ESXi deployment and thought I would start writing down some of the lessons learned. I will try to create a single post every week, if I can find the time that is. Scratch! There are two things that stood out the couple of days, on a technical level, when I was reading the ESXi [...]
I received an email from one of my readers, Kevin, about using the VSS Driver for Backups. As of 3.5 Update 2 this feature has been introduced. I knew that there was a catch to using the VSS Driver but it seems that many people have overlooked a little detail on page 50 of the documentation of which Kevin was [...]
