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VMware View 4.5: Rebalance
Rebalance: A desktop rebalance operation that evenly redistributes linked-clone desktops among available datastores. When testing this, customers can often see unexpected results. This is often due to...
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Service Pack 1 is here… for some
I noticed today when completing the updates for the second Tuesday of March on my laptop that Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/2008R2 was included. Since I am curious just to see what is noticably new...
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Virtual Bill’s Tech Field Day 5 Review
Woah… figures that when I get back home from Tech Field Day #5, I am completely slammed at work and home and I have barely found the time for the usual things, let alone blogging. So, while I have been...
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Shorts: VMware vCloud Director not displaying the web portal
A colleague of mine approached me today with a question on our vCloud Director environment. He tried to log in to the vCloud Director portal, and was unable to log in, because there was no page being...
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VMware Fling–PXE Manager for vCenter–How To Setup And Get Installing
VMware employees are encouraged to work on pet projects during their spare time. Sometimes, these projects are posted online for the world to enjoy. These projects are called Flings… and they can be...
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Who Knew VMware Would Be Such A Good Farmer?!
Start with a plot of land, plow it up, drop some seeds, water, care, and in no time flat, you have a viable farm. Alright… any farmer out there knows there is much more to it than that. Early mornings,...
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I/O Virtualization Redux (c/o Virtensys)
Alright… back in the day, I posted an article regarding a startup in San Jose, Aprius. You can find that post here:...
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VMware vCenter Operations–Standard Edition
All of us “Virtualization Admins” are always looking for more information about the performance of our environment. As VMware ESX products have progressed, more and more performance metrics have been...
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Trust. It is an interesting thing in Active Directory.
This week has been interesting, mainly in that I was reminded about the simple things in Active Directory and how much harder they become when you dont pay them enough attention. Replication is much...
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vSphere 5–PXE Installation Using vCenter Virtual Appliance
The release of vSphere 5 has a lot of little gems. One of which is the availability of a SLES-based vCenter virtual appliance. So, while that is really cool, there is another little nugget of joy...
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Are You a Hypervisor Hugger or a Storage Stalwart?
The great battle of enterprise storage is on! The time has come to take sides on the core question of storage for virtual servers: Do you want storage intelligence to live in the hypervisor or the...
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ESXi 5.0–1.5 Hour Boot Time During Upgrade
I have to say, I am quite shocked that I am on the tail end of waiting 1.5 hours for an ESXi 5.0 upgrade to complete booting. Seriously… 1.5 hours. I have been waiting for some time to get some ESXi...
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The Terrifying True Story Of Virtual Machine Mobility
It isn’t always easy to get where you need to go! Consider the following situation: You go to lunch with your good friends, John and Mary. Halfway through a rousing discussion of the latest Hollywood...
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Microsoft Adds Data Deduplication to NTFS in Windows 8
Windows 8 server editions will include a filter driver for NTFS for data deduplication The next version of Microsoft Windows Server includes integrated data deduplication technology. Microsoft is...
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PowerShell… What an awesome tool
I have been trying to talk myself into learning Microsoft PowerShell for quite some time. It was always cool for a little while and then, like many other things, it just got dull and lost its shine....
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VDI Paging Files – Big? Small? Or Non At All?
For the past few months I have been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of Large VDI environments, where the problems lay and where performance can be improved. When designing VDI...
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PCoIP Log Viewer 2.0
This is a tool I’ve been using almost daily in my current project and for the past few months. Now It’s finally been released to the public! The tool has been created by Chuck Hirtsius – one of the EUC...
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ReFS – a new and improved approach
I was looking through some email today and saw a newsletter from ZDNet at the top of my inbox. Normally these don’t get my immediate attention, but for some reason, today… it did. There was a post...
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EMC VFCache (aka “Project Lightning”) Is One Small Step, But an Important One
EMC will today unveil a new product, and will no doubt attract a great deal of press. The modest technical capabilities of VFCache 1.0 limit its use case, but the announcement is big news, since it...
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“Our Storage Array Is Compatible with VMware…” Says Who?
I talk to dozens of companies every week, and every one says the same thing: “Our product is compatible with VMware!” But not everyone’s definition of “compatible” is the same, and some are not...
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