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