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Ubuntu Touch-Based

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Ubuntu on the front page of the website announces the release of Ubuntu Touch-based distribution. Update: The latest news from Ubuntu page says that at CES 7-11 January, there will be Ubuntu Phones…. When I checked on that page, there were still over 24 hours to go before the first touch-based Linux system sees the […]

Best Freeware utilities and WP plugins in 2012

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I wanted to share some best system tools which are freeware utilities and which I discovered in 2012. Also in this post you’ll find some WordPress plugins that I recommends. I’m principally blogging about virtualization, but this post would fit rather into system admin/Wordperss category. Still, can be useful for all system admins or virtualization […]

How-to create and install VM with boot disk based on PVSCSI adapter

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PVSCSI adapters are supported from vSphere 4.1 U1 for boot disks. You can create and install VM with boot disk based on PVSCSI adapter directly, with this how-to article. To benefit the fastest disk performance, and install the OS directly by using the PVSCSI adapter,  you’ll need to follow some guidelines, because W2008 or W2012 server […]

What’s new in VMware SRM 5.1.0.1 and 5.0.2

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Together with the recent release of vCenter 5.1b, there has been new release of VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM). The SRM 5.1.0.1 is an update for the SRM 5.1 release and the 5.0.2 is an update for the older 5.0.1 release (in case you’re on the release before upgrading to the 5.1.x). SRM 5.0.2 is […]

VMware vSphere Performance: Solving CPU, Memory, Storage, and Networking Issues

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This book for VMware admins is about performance and about how to solve some VMware vSphere 5 Performance issues. Solving CPU, Memory, Storage, and Networking Issues can be challenging. This book, with a step-by-step instructions, will show you how to solve some critical performance issues in vSphere. The title of the book is VMware vSphere X performance (Pre-Order […]

vCloud Connector 2.0 Released

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vCloud Connector 2.0 is now available for download now. vCloud Connector (vCC) allows you to view, copy and manage VMs across vSphere and vCloud Director, but also to public vCloud offers. There are two versions of the vCloud Connector, where the free version called Core does lucks the Automatic catalog synchronization across clouds and migrating of VMs […]

7 Tips for troubleshooting vSphere 5

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Update: This pdf is no longer available. Please check out my Free Technical PDF page where are the latest and the best! This 9 pages PDF called 7 Tips for troubleshooting vSphere 5 – from Global Knowledge will show you simple ways to troubleshoot vSphere 5. You’ll see how to check your storage performance, network […]

Top 10 on ESX Virtualization in 2012

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Here is a top 10 articles and pages that has been accessed through my website in 2012. Those stats comes up from Google Analytics as a source. I have done this recap in the past and I can see that some old articles stayed popular. I recently changed the design of the website, for more […]

VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b Released

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VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b has been released yesterday. Mainly a maintenance release which fixes some issues with timeout errors occurring when logging in to the vSphere Client. Also, if you having troubles and logging in to a vSphere Web Client as a user of an Active Directory domain that has a non-standard UPN.  Or another […]