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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]


