Yesterday I received an email from product management asking if I could plug the VMware FT/HA survey like I did with the VMware Snapshot survey. The VMware Snapshot survey literally had hundreds of responses with so much valuable feedback that they decided to re-open this survey and give you guys, my readers, the chance to speak your mind on VMware [...]

A couple of months ago I blogged about the draft version of the vSphere Security Hardening Guide. Yesterday VMware published the first official version. Keep in mind that any feedback is still highly appreciated and the document is still subject to change. source article This document is the official release of the vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guide. This version is [...]

Almost a year ago one of my colleagues told me about a project he was working on called the “vSphere Resource Kit“. I guess it reminds many of you of the Resource Kits that were released for the Microsoft products. I guess the idea is quite similar. On twitter several people asked who the authors were and many said they were “unknown” [...]

One of my former colleagues(who wants to remain anonymous) notified me about this. Although many of you might not even be doing this, for just the few who are it is useful to know this caveat. For security reasons some customers have the requirement to insert specific account information for every user. It appears that when you modify the details for [...]

One of my customer asked for the download links for all the sysprep packages they needed for a project. I did a quick google and these are the links. Might come in handy one day: Windows 2000 – 32Bit Windows 2003 – 32bit Windows 2003 – 64bit Windows XP – 32bit Windows XP – 64bit

Henry Robinsson, a product manager at VMware, just posted a topic on the VMTN community forums requestion feedback on VMware snapshots. (Thanks William Lam for pointing this out) I am uncertain what this feedback will lead into but usually it is used as guidance for the direction a specific product or feature is heading into. If you want to be [...]

On twitter Scott Drummonds just posted that VMware has submitted TPC-H benchmarks. Not only did they submit the benchmark VMware managed set a new world record for price/performance! VMware ranked first with $ 0.70 Query-per-Hour Performance. The question of course is why is this important? It is important because TPC is a recognized industry leading benchmark and results can be used [...]