Today I received long awaited VCP welcome kit. After several months of wait and doubt I finally received VMware VCP welcome kit. Inside of the envelope I found a VCP 4 certificate and a letter congrats signed from Paul Maritz. I went to South Africa for the VCP class and exam in November last year, […]
Virtualizing Microsoft Tier 1 Applications with VMware vSphere 4
There is a new book available now on Amazon. Charles A. Windom and Hermant Gaidhani are introducing some optimization of SQL, Exchange, IIS, Sharepoint with VMware vSphere 4. It’s about 600 pages book, this means some long and good read… I will definitely be checking this out. Since it’s oriented on Microsoft applications like SQL […]
Veeam’s secret weapon – SureBackup
SureBackup – a revolution for backups of Virtual Infrastructure. I assisted at the bloggers meeting last night with Doug Hazelman from VEEAM Software. Doug had already did a pre-post on Veeam company’s blog veeammeup.com where he did not showed any new information, but only analyst’s reactions. The announcement has been done officially today on Veeam’s […]
My first tests of Kingston SSD drive
Taking Kingston for a spin… In my first test for the SSD drive I bought recently I wanted to do a compare to SATA drives. In my test I’m using VMware Workstation 7 and a VM placed on the SSD drive at first. Then I’ll move this VM to a SATA drive and see what’s […]
Xangati for VMware ESX
Two new Xangati’s products has just being released for VMware ESX. Those 2 new products are virtual appliances which you can install in your vCenter environment. Xangati provides a video-like visibility into all communications across both the virtual and physical worlds. It can monitor and manage both of them. It’s multi-platform so it works well […]
vSphere Pro Training Vol. 1 Review
My Review of vSphere Pro Training videos from TrainSignal. Last week I received the new additional training for VMware vSphere 4 made by 3 vEperts well known by the VMware Virtualization communities. Those guys are (in no particular order): David Davis, Hal Rottenberg and Rick Scherer. You can find some more details about those guys […]
Surebackup – what? New upcoming product from VEEAM
This is a special report post. Yes, the tweets and blog posts had been just raining the last couple of hours and days. I’m putting my thoughts and wishes too… 😎 . There will be a very new update announced from VEEAM. Or maybe a totally new product? At the moment nobody knows. The only […]
vSphere 4 Pro video learning course is out.
Some great news today – The new vSphere Pro Video Training is Available. There is new video learning course available from TrainSignal. It’s completely new Professional Video Training course which is focusing on some advanced management techniques via Power CLI for VMware vSphere 4 and also some deep diving into PowerShell some other Vmware products […]
Ultimate White Box thoughts
Having an Idea for an Ultimate White Box? Or Multi-Usage Ultimate White Box. I’m thinking of building a new All in One White box. I’m quite tired of having all sort of white boxes which consumes energy when stays on all the time. I’d like to be more ECO human….. to consume less energy and […]
Top Virtualization blogs anounced !!!
And the winner is….. Top Virtualization Blogs has been announced. It’s been quite a suspense. During the last 2 weeks there has been a voting contest where you could win a Trainsignal’s best selling vSphere 4 learning course on Eric Siebert’s blog vsphere-land.com organized. I’ve reported on that earlier. It’s amazing, I made it to the […]