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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 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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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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