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VMware Product interoperability matrix

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Is this or that product works on that or not? Where to see? In this video from VMware you’ll see the new Interoperability matrix page in action. With the numbers of versions of products, it a great idea to be able to see which version of product is compatible with which version of platform. Picture […]

VDR – how to get a log bundle before you call the support

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VDR – VMware Data Recovery While listening this year’s VMworld Session on VDR – VMware Data Recovery  – while on many of the information I already knew and was aware of, because I install and use VDR quite often. There was an information about how to collect the diagnostic logs, in case anything gets wrong. […]

Difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through

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USB device device path-through is vMotion aware, not VMDirectPath. I just stumbled into this KB showing what’s the difference between USB device pass-through and VMDirectPath I/O Direct IO pass-through. Read on if you’re not sure or you want/need to get a specific high-speed configuration with 10Gigs NIC available only for your VM (without the Virtualization […]

But, what that vPower is?

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Veeam Backup and Replication v. 5.0 brings vPower. What is that mean? Veeam announced the general availability Veeam Backup and Replication v. 5.0. I was expecting to see Veeam Backup and Replication launch during the VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen, but one had to wait few more days to see the news… The fifth version […]

How-to setup number of cores per CPU in a virtual machine

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Since vSphere 4.1 VMware supports Multicore Virtual CPU technology. You may not only implement and assign how many vCPU per VM (up to 8 vCPU in entreprise plus, up to 4 vCPU for the others), but also you can define how many cores per vCPU that VM will have. This could be used to maximize […]

VMworld 2010 highlights

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The VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen went really fast….VMworld 2010 highlights. The Highlights? Some of them, especially for me, as a blogger and IT engineer working for a local IT Company at the Reunion Island, was the vExperts meeting on Tuesday. Why is was that special for me? Because Steven Herod was present there. He is […]

Virtualizing Domain controller

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Virtualizing Domain controller is the subject of today’s post. I was able to attend a session which is oriented for some lead practices for Virtualizing Active Directory using vSphere. The session EA6705 was full or almost. Some of my customers are still fearing going full virtual, or some of you who working in an organization where […]

VMworld Copenhagen – Being a part of the social media

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My blogging experience at VMworld Copenhagen 2010. I’m here at the VMworld Copenhagen this year, for the first time. It’s been quite of time that this kind of event I thought would be very exiting to attend. And all this is now happening. I was just being able to attend the keynote as a blogger, […]