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		<title>10 Things I Remember About 2011 &#8211; Cloud, vCoud Director, AWS Outage, Virtual Desktop-VDI, ESXi  5, Thin Storage and More…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review: Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid by Larry Loucks I have often thought of writing my own book on &#8220;things not to do&#8221; when building a virtual infrastructure and for what it&#8217;s worth, Larry Loucks has covered just about everything I would have written about &#8211; down to how recklessly VMware or other hyper-visors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Virtual Environment are Designed and Maintained by the Best Virtualization Engineers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>vSphere 5 Licenses Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;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 &#8220;vSphere 5 pricing and packaging white paper&#8221; Other links to read: Upgrading to VMware vSphere License Keys How to Get Your vSphere 5 Licenses Upgrade Eligibility Entitlement Mapping Preparing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Copy of VMWorkstation When You Pass VCP Exam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vminstall.com/?p=1090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since I received my free copy of VMWorkstation for passing the VCP 3.0 certification exam. And, come to find out VMware gives a copy of VMware Workstation 7.1 when you pass the VCP 4.1 exam, $179 value. I used my copy to virtualize and  run my old Windows XP and Vista [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware VMkernel SWAP File Best Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answering the question that always seems to get asked, &#8220;what is the best practice for the VM SWAP file?&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ways for Extending a VM&#8217;s Disk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most new virtual servers are provisioned from templates that have 12 to 20 GB &#8220;C&#8221; 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&#8217;s disk.  Use VMconverter from VMware to clone the VM and change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware P2V Checklist for Servers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Sanchez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November I visited the VMware users group for the Phoenix area and one of the big topics was P2V. Not enough can be said about all the challenges there are to successfully convert physical servers to virtual servers (P2V), especially when your data center has hundreds of servers with various configurations and operating systems. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free VCP410 Study Guides and More&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me you&#8217;re starting to think seriously about taking the VCP 4 certification test before the end of the year. After that, you will need to fork out $4000 for more training from a VMware approved trainner. I found a great resource for study material on Scott Vessey&#8217;s blog. He&#8217;s a VMware Certified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Machines Running or Registered on Multiple ESX Servers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your vCenter flicker when browsing clusters? There could be a problem&#8230; Over the last 3 years I&#8217;ve seen this happen twice and both times it was not good. Both cases were caused from an HA event that was interrupted, which left multiple VMs registered on more than one host. Fortunately, the VM stays running and the fix does not [...]]]></description>
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