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26 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Single Pane Of Glass – SPOG Window

Single Pane Of Glass – SPOG Window As of this post Google search shows 1,080,000 results for Single Pane Of Glass and the top result shows a basic definition.   In the last 2 years I heard the phrase Single Pane Of Glass or SPOG used a number of times including by me when I was [...]

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31 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

10 Things I Remember About 2011 – Cloud, vCoud Director, AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi 5, Thin Storage and More…

10 Things I Remember About 2011- Cloud, vCoud Director,  AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi  5, Thin Storage and More… A lot more than 10 things happened in 2011, but here are the 10 things I remember looking back on this New Years-Eve Day: 1. Cloud became more than a buzz-word. 2. VMware’s vCloud Director was [...]

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28 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

vSphere 5 Licenses Change

There’s a lot to consider when you decide to upgrade previous versions of ESX to vSphere 5. Take some time to read the following PDF “vSphere 5 pricing and packaging white paper” Other links to read: Upgrading to VMware vSphere License Keys How to Get Your vSphere 5 Licenses Upgrade Eligibility Entitlement Mapping Preparing for [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 4 Comments

VMware VMkernel SWAP File Best Practice

Answering the question that always seems to get asked, “what is the best practice for the VM SWAP file?” I have put this method through bench testing and found it to have the best performance, step by step for VM SWAP file configuration is: Set up a data store in each ESX cluster for guest SWAP [...]

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