When self-publishing you face a couple of challenges and one of those is to get your books available in bookstores and at events. Frank managed to get our book available at VMworld and it will be sold at the VMworld Bookstore. If you haven’t picked up your copy yet this will be your chance to do so and you might [...]

I guess most of you have been waiting for this moment… the moment for the three teams to be announced. I can assure you that you will not be disappointed. All of the people on these three have an excellent reputation and are eager to have their shot at the title of all titles. Who will take back that championship [...]

I received a question today about a partitioned clusters (in vSphere 5.0) with HA. The question was which Master would own which VMs when a partition exists and how is determined which master can own which VM? I have already briefly explained the difference between an isolation and a partition. Now it is good to realize that when a partition [...]

This year at VMworld I have the honor to part of a panel discussion moderated by Rick Scherer. Of course I am not the only person on the panel. Next to me the panel will feature my fellow bloggers and virtualization experts: Frank Denneman, Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac. For those of you attending VMworld be sure to register for [...]

I don’t think anyone has blogged about App Monitoring yet so I figured I would do a “what’s new / intro” to App Monitoring in vSphere 5.0. Prior to vSphere 5 App Monitoring could only be leveraged by partners which had access to the SDK/APIs. A handful of partners leveraged those of which probably Symantec’s ApplicationHA is the best example. [...]

I know many of you have been waiting on this so I figured I would report it is available. You can find the official vSphere License Advisor on here. I know many have used Alan’s script, and some couldn’t use it because it didn’t support VI3. The vSphere License Advisor will work in environments with Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, vSphere 4.0 [...]

I was playing around in my lab and figured I would give the vCenter Appliance (VCVA)  a try. I realize that today there are limitations when it comes to the vCenter Appliance and I wanted to list those to get them out in the open: No Update Manager No Linked-Mode No support for the VSA (vSphere Storage Appliance) Only support [...]