Mike Laverick started a campaign last week on the VMware Community Forums and asked for the VMTN Subscription to be reinstated, coincidentally the same request came in through the VMUG board. For those who have never heard of the VMTN Subscription program it was similar to MSDN and enabled you to run VMware software in your lab environment for a [...]
The VMTN/PlanetV12n Podcast 83 was all about ESXi with VMware’s Charu Chaubal. You can find the download here or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here. ESXi Twitpic 001 – VMware ESXi Architecture by @jtroyer ESXi Twitpic 002 – VMware ESXi 3rd generation hypervisor architecture ESXi Twitpic 003 – New & Improved Paradigm for ESX Management ESXi Twitpic 004 – [...]
The VMTN/PlanetV12n Podcast 80 was an open topic. You can find the download here or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here. vSphere Security Whitepapers Cisco NetApp VMware Announce The Industry’s First Secure Multi-Tenancy Solution NetApp Multistore Primer Drobo Pro on the VMware HCL soon! VSA’s – How Many… Drobo configuration Drobo Review Drobo performance testing My homelab – Drobo [...]
A couple of months ago during the VMTN podcast I shared an idea with John Troyer and Edward Haletky. I thought that it would be cool to have a demo environment at the community booth where the vExperts could show there skills. After some discussions with the VMworld Team I decided to start building a lab and John Troyer asked [...]
The VMware Developer Communities have been overhauled and in such a way that Chip Foose would be proud. It contains all automation(SDK&API) related forums and documents including the sample code section! Another new feature I like is the “Hero Spotlight” section which currently features William Lam, Hal Rottenberg, Mike Giles and Luc Dekens. Just visit this new section of the [...]
As many of you hopefully know there’s a weekly VMTN Community Podcast. VMware’s John Troyer runs the show and usually most of the active VMTN Members join in on the fun. The best shows so far, in my opinion, are the deep technical ones and especially around storage. This evening(for us Europeans at least, wednesday 21:00 GMT +1 !!) Chad [...]
As I wrote a while ago when you enable virtualized MMU for your virtual machine it enables Large Pages and Large Pages don’t get “TPS’ed”. The article I wrote was specifically related to AMD cause it was the only platform at the moment for which enhanced memory techniques where used. (AMD RVI!) As of vSphere 4.0 Intel EPT is also [...]
