Archive | Virtualization

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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28 November 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks

Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks I have often thought of writing my own book on “things not to do” when building a virtual infrastructure and for what it’s worth, Larry Loucks has covered just about everything I would have written about – down to how recklessly VMware or other hyper-visors [...]

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27 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

The Best Virtual Environment are Designed and Maintained by the Best Virtualization Engineers

The Best Virtual Environment are Designed and Maintained by the Best Virtualization Engineers This post is dedicated to my friend’s, associates and counterparts who go un-noticed by those managers and VPs who don’t get it. You are the brains behind the magic that virtualizes all those servers. You make VMware look easy, even though we [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Three Ways for Extending a VM’s Disk

Most new virtual servers are provisioned from templates that have 12 to 20 GB “C” disk so what do you do when you run out of space?  Here are three methods which might work for you to increase the size of your virtual server’s disk.  Use VMconverter from VMware to clone the VM and change [...]

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