I was just playing around with vSphere 5.0 and noticed something cool which I hadn’t noticed before. I logged in to the ESXi Shell and typed a command I used a lot in the past, vmkfstools, and I noticed an option called -K. (Just been informed that 4.1 has it as well, I never noticed it though… ) -K –punchzero [...]

** Update: Available now: paperback full |paperback black & white ** I’ve seen a lot of crazy things, but when I clicked the amazon link for our book yesterday I literally jumped up and started cheering… Number 1 in “Computers & Internet”. These are the kind of things that make it all worth it! PS: We asked amazon/createspace to get [...]

Just noticed that the collateral I have been working on is available for download today as well. Check the “What’s new for Storage” whitepaper, the Storage DRS video and the Profile-Driven Storage video.

I am live at the Launch event in San Francisco with many other bloggers, journalists and analysts. It is the 12th of July, almost 09:00 PDT and Paul Maritz is about come up on stage to talk about the Cloud Infrastructure launch. This article will be update live during the event as we go. Paul Maritz is taking the stage… [...]