vCenter plugin wizard helps you to create a web based plugins The creator is Ricky El-Quasem from Virtualizeplanet.com. Particulary usefull if you want to personalize your vCenter installation with your company website for example. You can download the plugin for free from here. Update: Now the plugin has a new feature – to be able […]
VCAP – VMware Certified Advanced Professional
Two new VMware certification exams. VCAP will be an intermediate step you can go through before you became VCDX one day. VCAP – VMware Certified Advanced Professional. It means that there is now “in between” certification. VCP 4> VCAP > VCDX 4. An intermediate step. That’s a good news for people already holding VCP 4 […]
Veeam Reporter 4.0 released
Yesterday Veeam released a new version of Veeam Reporter Entreprise v. 4.0 Veeam Reporter has been an essential tool since the early releases. It’s been used for VMware Infrastructure reporting, which facilitates High Availability (HA) & VMotion planning. It’s being designed for IT professionals and ESX administrators, system integrators and datacenter managers, Veeam Reporter integrates […]
Start build your VDI infrastructure with Fujitsu’s Zero Client
ZERO Client for SMB, the good choice. There has been a company event we did few days back, where we presented a new product as a Fujitsu partner here at the Reunion Island (Fr). The product’s name is ZERO Client, I did a little article about that product last week, but this time I’ll try […]
Maximum vSphere – a new book from Top Bloggers
In August probably there will be a new book available which from Eric Siebert. Eric, but also Simon Seagrave and Rich Brambley who participated on the book, will bring the best how-to tips on managing, installing, administering or making backups of your virtual infrastructure running under VMware vSphere 4. The book is entitled “Maximum vSphere: […]
My VCP welcome kit has finally arrived
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 […]
