The VDI Landscape is Shifting in Microsoft’s Favor
Scott Lowe writing for CIOscape comments: A little over a year ago, Wikibon predicted the following regarding the most likely future of the Hyper-V and vSphere:“…believe that VMware’s greatest risk is...
View ArticleMy completely ridiculous VSAN test
Gabrie van Zanten from Gabes Virtual World comments: You find yourself sitting at your desk on a Saturday morning waiting for the cloning of a VM to finish. It seems to take forever and I just wished I...
View ArticleNFS Storage Lovers Rejoice – Infinio Accelerator Now Available
Chris Wahl of the Wahl Network writes: As you may recall, Infinio leverages the use of host DRAM to provide a write-through cache for virtual machines. The Infinio Accelerator is an OVA that is...
View ArticleMass ESXi Deployment using Auto Deploy, Boot from SAN, and PowerShell
Matt Oswalt of Keeping It Classless comments: I recently had a need to deploy quite a few ESXi hosts on top of Cisco UCS B-Series blades (60+) back-ended by Netapp storage. I needed some kind of method...
View ArticleFound a Bunch of Smart People in a Room? You must be at MVP Summit!
Jannelle Crothers of techbunny.com comments: This week I got the honor of attending the MVP Summit in Bellevue, Washington. This was my 5th Summit, though my first as a Microsoft blue-badge. I was very...
View ArticleDeath To vMotion
Tony Bourke of The Data Center Overlords comments: There are very few technologies in that data center that have had as significant of an impact of VMware’s vMotion. It allowed us to de-couple...
View ArticleDid you know OVF supports a cool feature called Dynamic Disks?
William Lam of virtuallyGhetto comments: A couple of weeks back I had the pleasure of meeting Anders Madsen who is the lead engineer for the very popular and useful tool called ovftool. While having a...
View ArticleThe Virtual Machine is a Legacy Construct
Chris Evans from Architecting IT comments: Virtualisation is great. As well as being a massively cool technology (and I’ve been using it since 1987), it has allowed us to manage more workload, first...
View ArticleConverged Architectures: it’s the use case, stupid!
Hans De Leenheer writes on his blog: Most of my readers are true technoligists and in that when we look at technology we focus a lot on the technology as such and sometimes lose the business case out...
View ArticleAccount for the Bandwidth-Delay Product with Larger Network Buffers
Bob Plankers at The Lone Sysadmin comments: This is post #14 in my December 2013 series about Linux Virtual Machine Performance Tuning. For more, please see the tag “Linux VM Performance Tuning.” At...
View ArticleVMware VSAN Vs The Simplicity Of Hyperconvergence
Scott Lowe writing for Wikibon comments: The release of the first beta of VMware’s VSAN product has spurred a surge of interest in the hyperconverged infrastructure space. VSAN is VMware’s software...
View ArticleClassification and Detection of Zombie Virtual Machines … Which tools should...
Paul Meehan writing for Virtualization Software comments: In this post I want to discuss what makes an Orphan or a Zombie in a VMware environment. I also want to introduce some of my favourite tools...
View ArticleInfinio setup: Part 2 the manament interface
Arjan Timmerman of VDICLOUD.NL comments: Last week I wrote the first part for the infinio setup. I promised I would write a part two about how to create an I/O workload to put your setup Infinio...
View ArticleFour Trends That CIOs Should Not Ignore
Scott Lowe writing for Wikibon comments: Every so often, I like to provide CIOs with easily digestible summaries of hot technologies that can solve real business problems starting today while, at the...
View ArticleTo Infinio and beyond!
Joep Piscaer of Virtual Lifestyle comments: I have been testing Infinio in my lab extensively. Read on for my notes on installation, availability and complexity of the Infinio Accelerator v1.1; there’s...
View ArticleHow to run View PowerCLI
Luc Dekens of LucD notes comments: During my recent presentation at the 20th VMUGBE+ session, I showed different ways to run View PowerCLI cmdlets and scripts. Several of the methods I showed, are...
View ArticleThe Upgrade Process From vCenter 5.1 to 5.5
Chris Wahl of the Wahl Network comments: After a long period of slacking off and avoiding upgrading my lab to vCenter 5.5 – mainly so I can wait for a few more bug fixes to slip into the GA release – I...
View ArticleCentOS joins forces with RedHat
Matt Simmons, the Standalone Sysadmin comments: There are a lot of people scratching their heads on this, because there’s a widely perceived notion that CentOS is a direct competitor to RHEL, but...
View ArticleIs Microsoft Planning On Releasing a Blade Server?
Blades Made Simple comments: A recent patent search shows an application by Microsoft on December 19, 2013 for a “Tray and Chassis Blade Server” hinting that Microsoft may be ready to get into the...
View ArticleNutanix Raises an Additional $101 million for Hyper-Convergence
Chris Evans of Architecting IT comments: As revealed today, the Nutanix juggernaut thunders on with the announcement of a further round of investment totalling $101 million, bringing the collective...
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