So I’m thinking of submitting. All submissions are due December 31st. Accepted Topics * Application virtualization & streaming * Benchmarks * Cloud computing * Hosted virtual desktops infrastructures (connection brokering, thin clients, etc.) * Software development & testing through virtual lab automation * Storage virtualization * Technology adoption
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This was too good not to post here, and is well worth a read. Will Microsoft sunset VMware? – 18 months later – From IT20.info
So Tarry Singh posted today on the VMware security advisiories. While that’s been covered here, and elsewhere, I did find a few of his points interesting: Ask yourself the following: * Do you know that such malicious attacks are not taking place in your environment? * Do you know if there is some sort of
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I posted on this earlier, but wanted to follow up with some posts by some smarter folks, Mike Laverick, Chris Wolf, and VirtualGeek have now all blogged on this, and the general consensus is that DPM is still “experimental” and unless there is a compelling reason, it may be best not to play with fire.
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Timely blog posts for the WIN! This came up at the office today, that is to say, is running Exchange in a VM a good idea? The general consensus was that "YES” it is. You see those quotes there, they’re significant. That is not to blanketly say that running a massive Exchange deployment in a
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I just found a pile of Virtualization Webcasts, seemingly focused around VMware on BrightTALK. Go, browse, watch, become enlightened.
Until reading this at vinternals, I wasn’t even sure what HA Slot Size’s were. Now I’ve got some homework to do. In the meantime, read here about how their calculated.
Like everything else, there are more than a few ways to do this. We’ll cover them here from least to most painful. All of these require access to the service console, so ESXi users… Sorry. vmware-cmd stop hard Log into the service console (SSH, iLO, KVM, etc) Type “vmware-cmd –l” This will return a list
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I was directed to this script by a kind gentleman from #vmware on freenode. http://communities.vmware.com/message/958881#958881 You will likely want to follow in the discussion there to get the jist of it, and it more or less works. Please post in the comments if you would like a full example & demonstration.