A couple of weeks back I received the news that one of the sessions I submitted was accepted for VMware Partner Exchange 2012. PEX is held in Las Vegas from the 13th til the 16th of February. There’s an excellent program again. Make sure to check the full list here. If you haven’t signed up yet, do it quick as [...]
I had a question today from someone who asked if there was any point in enabling SIOC (Storage IO Control) when you have NIOC (Network IO Control) enabled and configured. Lets start with the answer: Yes there is! NIOC controls traffic on a single NIC port level. In other words, when you have 10GbE NIC ports and vMotion, VMs and [...]
After I posted my article yesterday Jason Boche posted a comment about the reboot that was required according to the screenshot. I looked in to it and quickly realized that if I would alter my “descriptor.xml” I would not get this message. In other words, it depends on the package that is installed if a reboot is required or not, [...]
When I joined Tech Marketing in February of this year my first task literally was the ESX System Analyzer. I was part of the team who developed the specs and test the app, but the main driving force behind the tool was my colleague Kyle Gleed (@VMwareESXi). The tool / fling was designed specifically to help people migrate from ESX [...]
I know there are a lot of crazy deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but this is most definitely the deal of the year for all virtualization fanatics! I just changed the price of the vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive to $ 4.99 and 3.99 for my European friends. Yes that is correct…. Less than 5 dollars for over [...]
Yesterday I received a nice tip from @Shaun_Gee. During the installation of the vSphere Syslog Collector you have to select the max size of the log files and when a rotation will happen. But how do you change this after the installation? The answer is straight forward, but unfortunately not well documented, thanks Shaun for sharing. The vSphere Syslog Collector [...]
Today on twitter there was a discussion around having an appliance for the vSphere Web Client. I didn’t get the question as there’s already a vCenter Appliance out there. Apparently not everyone realised that the Web Client is part of the vCenter Appliance. On top of that you could even split out the components and use the vCenter Appliance just [...]
