I was just playing around with Stateless again, aka auto-deploy, and I was wondering how far I could strip the image down to the bare minimum and what the difference would be. I loaded the standard software depot and cloned an existing image profile to a new image profile, for more details on how to do this check the post [...]
During VMworld I received multiple questions around support for vSphere Storage DRS with vSphere Site Recovery Manager (SRM), we even had this question during our session and my answer was “Yes it does”. During some of the other sessions presenters stated that it was unsupported. Scott Lowe also mentions recalling the fact that it was mentioned somewhere down the line [...]
I just noticed I am listed as one of the top 50 “Must-Read IT Blogs” by BizTech. It is a great honor to be part of a list which features some of the most brilliant people in IT and some of the largest corporate blogs out there. Make sure to read the Top 50 and add these blogs to your [...]
VMworld US has just been wrapped up and it is time to start looking at VMworld Europe already. I just checked the schedule builder and it looks that our session is scheduled on Thursday at 14:00 Wednesday at 15:00. Yes I would have definitely preferred a different time slot as well, but it is what it is and we will [...]
When I finished my article about auto deploy I figured it was really lengthy and wanted to write down the bare minimum which can be used as a quick cheat sheet when setting up auto-deploy. Of course you will need to install vCenter, PowerCLI, Auto-Deploy and TFTP first, but I am guessing most of you will know how to do [...]
I bumped in to Mornay today who is on of the people behind the VMworld Labs. I asked him if he could share some numbers with me as I haven’t been involved with the labs this year. It was a very successful lab event again, with much great feedback from the attendees. In total 13415 labs have been taken by [...]
What a great week… I’ve seen some great sessions and I met a lot of great people! The sessions I presented were all successful, at least in my opinion (please fill out the survey forms), and I especially loved the group discussions. Our book was literally sold out in 2.5 days and was the best-selling book at VMworld. Once again, [...]
