The VMworld Sessions have been announced and as always I wanted to list a couple which I felt are worth calling out. In the past I’ve heard people complaining that sessions were not technical enough or not exciting. I have listed all sessions which I will add to my schedule as soon as I can as I know they will [...]

I was browsing the VMTN community and noticed a great tip from my colleague Mostafa Khalil and I believe it is worth sharing with you. The original question was: “Does anybody have a list of which arrays support VAAI (or a certain subset of the VAAI features)?”. Mostafa updated the post a couple of days back with the following reponse [...]

I just noticed that the Horizon documentation is offered in epub and mobi format. I have been told that this is the first of many more docs to be released in this more universal format. I am happy that VMware decided to adopt this format. It does lead to another question though. I am part of tech marketing and we [...]

Book #24, As you hopefully know about a month ago my latest publication was released titled “Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director“. When I was visiting Palo Alto a week ago I met up with one of the co-authors and vCloud Security Expert Michael Haines. Michael managed to get a stack of books signed by the author of the foreword, [...]

A couple of days ago one of my colleagues released an article about Ephemeral Ports. The article explains about how Ephemeral ports could be used as a “backup” when vCenter is down. The summary of the article is in my opinion the paragraph I quoted below. If the inability to quickly provision a new VM or to reconnect a vNIC [...]