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Are you Ready? Hopefully you read my last Socialcast blog post so you know that I have been working on developing the Socialcast hands on labs for VMworld 2012. I also mentioned two other efforts I was working on to raise the visibility of Socialcast at VMworld 2012. Reaching out to the Socialcast…
Introduction A couple of weeks ago I was presenting at the regional Columbus, OH VMUG on “Troubleshooting Storage Performance in vSphere”. The content was put together by our internal storage guru Joseph Dieckhans and I modified some of the content along the way. If you are interested in seeing the presentation, you can view it…
VMworld 2012 is rapidly approaching, and believe it or not, it will be here before we know it! Call for papers is open now, and you have till May 18th to submit your idea to the VMworld team. Just in case you missed some of the details, VMworld US is to be hosted…
Introduction VMware made an exciting announcement at VMworld 2011 that didn’t get much press or attention. The VMworld labs were slated to be released for customers interested in doing technology previews of our software solutions in early 2012. Notice I didn’t use the term “Proof of Concept” as this implies different things to different people. …
Introduction Virtualizing and running Java workloads on vSphere is absolutely a reality, but when I talk to customers I emphasize the same best practices as virtualizing Tier 1 workloads. The rules are not the same as basic consolidation and containment and you need to understand, plan, and architect your virtualization platform if you want…
Introduction VMware is in a perpetual state of change if you haven’t noticed. Virtualization and the hypervisor will never not be a core competency of ours but we are continually expanding into other areas of IT software solutions for our customers. I think Paul Maritz states it best with his quote “When we see…
Introduction With vSphere 5 comes a plethora of new features and functionality across the entire VMware virtualization platform. One of the core components that got a nice upgrade was the vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS). For those of you that have not had the chance to use the vDS, it is a centralized…
Introduction This is a follow-up blog post to a write up I did last year on upgrading your virtual hardware. The post I did was really trying to show people how easy the virtual hardware to version 7 was, and that despite it being a manual effort, it wasn’t all that painful. …
Download The Newsletter VMware Newsletter April 2011 Welcome back, I hope you found our first newsletter helpful in some way shape or form. The newsletter seems to be getting larger and larger which is a great thing. It might soon start to qualify as a magazine rather than a newsletter. We got some good feedback…
When talking about VMware virtualization bottlenecks, 9 out of 10 customers answer their number one bottleneck is memory. Notice how I said bottleneck, not problem. This relates to capacity planning or trying to understand and right size the environment so you can gauge when you need to order more physical infrastructure. Their number one problem…