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 […]
Read More VMworld 2011–Las Vegas EditionAnother 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 […]
Read More VMworld 2011–Las Vegas EditionWhat started off as a good idea, quickly snowballed into my home lab being jacked up for about 3 weeks. I often refer to these things as “life lessons” and unfortunately I usually experience these things a lot. I normally just chalk it up to my ADD and move on !! Hopefully this blog post […]
Read More vShield 5 issues with virtual vCenterMe being right doesn’t happen often (just ask my wife) but when it does, I like to make sure I point it out to people 🙂 If you go back a few weeks to VMware’s big vSphere 5 announcement you will recall that no matter how many awesome features and benefits they rolled out with […]
Read More See I told you VMware wasn't evilMe being right doesn’t happen often (just ask my wife) but when it does, I like to make sure I point it out to people 🙂 If you go back a few weeks to VMware’s big vSphere 5 announcement you will recall that no matter how many awesome features and benefits they rolled out with […]
Read More See I told you VMware wasn’t evilLately I’ve been doing a lot of discussions with companies around Virtual Desktops (VDI) and these meetings usually fall into 2 types. First type is “what is VDI” or “VDI Best Practices” and even sometimes it’s “Why VDI now” or VDI 101. Normally this is an open discussion around why they are looking at […]
Read More Various info around deploying VDIWhat a WEEK!!! VMware didn’t let us down with all the buildup they made to their big launch on Tuesday. In the immortal words Chad Sakac – it was FACEMELTING AWESOMESAUCE. I mentioned a few of my favorite things about vSphere 5 on this blog post. The unfortunate side of the announcement was the reaction […]
Read More VMware is not evil – my opinion on their new licensing modelToday with all the pomp and circumstance they rightly deserve VMware announced that vSphere 5 and all its wonderful glory will be “GA” (Generally Available) in August. I thought I would write a short blog and call out some of the coolest features, at least to me, that will be in vSphere 5. First and […]
Read More really cool things in vSphere5I just recently added a 2TB iomega ix2 “Cloud Edition” to my VMware Home Lab and have been pretty impressed with some of its upgrades. As I noted in my last VMware Home Lab blog post I’ve been using another ix2 NFS for my datastores and have been wanting to add iSCSI to it the […]
Read More Adding iomega iSCSI to your home VMware LabHave you ever heard the expression “The only thing not being created anymore is time”? I used to hear that often growing up. Back then it made little sense to me but as I got older, married, started a career and then had kids it seems that the hours in the day are shrinking and […]
Read More Vblock: the answer to the NRE time problem
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