Just a couple of days left: You didn’t pay attention during Cyber Monday and forgot to order your copy of VMware Fusion and/or VMware Workstation? Well here’s your chance to pick it up with a 50% discount, keep in mind that there are only a few days left to pick it up with this holiday reduction coupon! This is a [...]

I was just pointed out to this amazing topic on the VMTN Forums by William Lam and Tuan Duong. These guys created a whole bunch of scripts and decided to share them with the rest of the world: My colleague (Tuan Duong) and I (William Lam) have been working on a virtualization/VDI deployment project over the last six months. The [...]

You didn’t pay attention during Cyber Monday and forgot to order your copy of VMware Fusion and/or VMware Workstation? Well here’s your chance to pick it up with a 50% discount. This is a special discount for “Friends and Family” from VMware. In order to receive the reduction coupon you’ll need to add me on twitter and send me a [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while about this. How can I zero-out all my vm’s with just one schedule. I don’t want to manually add a schedule every single time I roll out a VM, I want a central point for administering this. Today I noticed the blog on using the VIX API. The VIX API can be used for [...]

VMware’s John Troyer revealed on Twitter a couple of hours ago a “search-able hardware compatibility guide” for VMware ESX and VMware View: This online Hardware Compatibility Guide web application was released on December 10, 2008. To learn more about benefits and usage of this tool, please see “Help on Searching”. This online Hardware Compatibility Guide replaces the former Hardware Compatibility [...]

Lately I’ve been testing scripted builds of ESX hosts and several other tools like RDA. Because of this I had to reinstall my ESX hosts several times. Sometimes I actually had to completely delete them before I could start over again. You can consider this blog posting as a note to myself, this way I can do a simple search [...]

This will probably take me a couple of weeks and maybe months to get fully adjusted to the new names VMware is going to use for their products. Most of the name changes were already announced during VMworld. And there are three major ones in the actual list: VirtualCenter → VMware vCenter VDI → VMware View VMFS → VMware vStorage VMFS [...]