How to Monitor vSphere 5 from your iPad

I’ve been in the process of updating my VMware home lab (future blog alert) and with that I’ve decided to do a lot of “fall cleaning” of stuff. About the only thing I’m keeping is my ActiveDirectory and DNS VM and everything else is getting a brand new install including vSphere 5.0, vCenter 5 etc […]

VMware View Backup Best Practices

Talk about your perfect timing. Hot off the presses last week was the very timely VMware View 5 Performance Best Practice Guide that I blogged about and then I see a tweet from Scott Sauer (@ssauer) about the new VMware View Backup Best Practices Deployment and Technical considerations guide. The funny part is I […]

VMware View 5 Performance and Best Practices

As I’ve said a couple of times, I’m pretty passionate about End User Computing (EUC) and where that technology is heading towards (like the end of desktops as we know it :). I was afforded the awesome opportunity to be apart of a sub-group within the vSpecialist organization that focuses on EUC and specifically lately […]

My Top Oracle on VMware Resources

This week I had the awesome opportunity to work the Oracle Open World show in San Francisco. I was there mostly as an invite from the EMC Oracle Social Media/Marketing team to help with a couple of fun #oowHunt (Scavanger Hunt) things and had a blast participating. Personally I think Oracle has a […]

Quick VDI Sizing HowTo

From time to time I’m asked to do quick/dirty IO sizing for customers looking to do View Virtual Desktops. Normally it’s a request by the EMC Technical Consultant to help size the array. Now, I usually throw a bunch of caveats into the mix like “they really should be working with either EMC Consulting Services […]

My Top VMware Resources

This blog post is a long time coming !! This is a culmination of information I seem to consistently send out to customers and prospects that I meet with on a day to day basis. Usually I send this information in a REALLY REALLY long e-mail but I thought now I can simply send them […]

vSphere 5–How to Deploy from Template

As I’ve mentioned in the past I’ve been working with a good friend of mine to help him get his home lab up and running. In the last blog post I talked about the importance of a solid Windows 2008 Template and the process in vSphere 5 on how to create a template. As […]

vSphere 5 How to setup an OS Template

I’ve been working with a good friend of mine in helping him pull his VMware home lab together. One of the topics we discussed was the key to a good VMware Home Lab was a solid Windows 2008 R2 template. It doesn’t need to be just Windows 2008, it could also be Windows 7 for […]

VMworld 2011–Las Vegas Edition

Another VMworld USA has come and gone and with it a TON of awesome memories and cool opportunities to learn. This year was my first year to work along side our VMware brothers and sisters in the VMware Hands on Lab (HoL). If you recall, the HoL was something I missed all together in 2010 […]

VMworld 2011–Las Vegas Edition