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VMware Certification Path updated

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VMware Certifications – New look and free PDF. VMware Certification path has changed few months back. It’s worth to mention that the The VMware Education site got new redesign. The certification structure change about which you were able to read about in my earlier post – New VMware Certification Roadmap, you have multiple choices to specialize […]

VMware Thinapp 4.7 Essentials – New Book by Peter Björk

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Thinapp 4.7 ins and outs in this book from Peter Björk. This new book which is detailing everything you need to know about VMware Thinapp 4.7, by Peter Björk, EMEA Horizon and ThinApp Specialist Systems Engineer at VMware, from Sweden. His latest book Thinapp 4.7 Essentials has just been published by Packt publishing but it’s also available through Amazon – Paper: […]

vMotion – VMware Storage vMotion and Enhanced vMotion

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vMotion is one of the best features when it comes to VMware and it’s virtualization technology. With the latest vSphere 5.1 version, an additional  – enhanced vMotion has been added to the long list of features that keeps VMware ahead of the competition. So not only “standard” vMotion, storage vMotion, but also enhanced vMotion are […]

VMware Go Pro in Video

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VMware Go – Installation, Management, patching, ticketing… for Small Businesses VMware Go is using technology which was developed by Shavlik technology before acquired by VMware. This technology is used to maintain with ease the patching of the whole environment. In fact there is a free version which name is simply VMware Go and the paid […]

Default VM Compatibility Level in VMware vSphere 5.1

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VMware vSphere 5.1 has introduced Virtual Hardware version 9 (vmx-09). With the latest hardware version, VMs can have up to 64 vCPU, 1Bt of RAM or hardware accelerated 3D graphics (VMware View only). Together with VHV (virtualized hardware virtualization) improvements and less reboot requirements (from the vmx-09 and onwards), the overall management of versioning of […]

VMware Tools Repair or Change

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If you experience problems with mouse actions or enhanced graphics, there might be a VMware Tools issue in cause. There is simple fix by repairing VMware Tools installation. You can do a VMware Tools repair from the user interface of many VMware products, not only vSphere. The thing is that you can’t invoke the “repair” […]

Virtual Machine – all you need to know

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I have been asked many times by non techie folks about what is virtual machine. I know that for the readers who follow my blog,  the question might be inappropriate, but for those of you who does not know what is virtual machine and want to know simple answer, read on. Experienced virtualization users won’t […]

WordFence Security Plugin for WordPress

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Today I’ll be talking about Wordfence Security Plugin for Wordpres, which enables you to not only secure your WordPress blog or website, but also get rid of Spyware or virus which infected your DB or core WordPress files. This plugin is a fully featured free enterprise class security plugin that includes a firewall, virus scanning, real-time traffic with geolocation […]

VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

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VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0 released. VMware has released VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager version 1.0 today. Managing several hypervisors through a single pane of glass, that’s something that quite expected today, and it seems that VMware has reacted by publishing new plugin for VMware vSphere 5.1 called VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager Plugin (MHM). This plugin […]