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VMware View 5.0 – performance and best practices white paper

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A very interesting technical Whitepaper has been released by VMware. If you’re into VMware View then you’ll like this technical and best practices whitepaper concerning VMware View 5. With the recent release of VMware View 5 during the VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, many new features and enhancements to this product has been introduced. The […]

How to install WordPress on a Local Computer

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You can be up and running in less than 5 minutes. I came through this nice little tool which packages a WordPress Installation together with Apache Webserver, PHP and MySQL database. All comes prepackaged, so after the initial installation to your local drive, you’re presented with a small dashboard where you can find buttons which […]

Performance and Best Practices for VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0

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New white paper from VMware addressing some performance best practices has been released. You’ll find the setup being used in the test, the configuration of the network, hosts, the deployment method used for the VUM software and the different choices depending of size of virtual infrastructure. The different sections: – VUM Server Host deployment – […]

VSA Technical Evaluation Guide in PDF is available

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This Technical Evaluation Guide Whitepaper is technical guide to easily test VSA – vSphere Storage Appliance. VMware vSphere 5 introduced new product which I think will become very popular for small businesses. The product is called vSphere Storage Appliance and it uses local disks of each ESXi host in the cluster to create a shared […]

Free PowerCLI 5.0 Poster to download

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With vSphere 5.0 and PowerCLI 5.0 there is also a new poster to download! I would have been a bad reporter if I would not share this information with my readers…. -:) Yes, the new PowerCLI 5.0 poster, which is a free download was released during VMworld 2011 at Las Vegas. VMware vSphere PowerCLI is […]

vSphere 5 – The official documentation in many different formats is available now

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With the yesterday’s release of vSphere 5 an official documentation for the product is available now, and in many different formats. With the GA release of VMware vSphere 5 yesterday, there has been all the product documentation made widely available. The product documentation is a highly appreciate resource for every vSphere Admin here, since for […]

How Many VMs can you fit in virtualized environment

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A new whitepaper from vKernel showing a metrics-based approach to calculate a number of VMs which can fit in your virtualized environment. This free resource publication from Alex Rosenblat and Ken Latimer shows you some deep dives into some metrics which one hast to take into consideration when making a calculation of how many VM […]

PowerGUI goes v. 3.0

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PowerGUI v. 3.0 released. Few days ago there has been also a new release of PowerGUI. PowerGUI provides easy to use graphical user interface for creating and managing scripts. You can leverage the use of power packs, like the one for VMware vSphere which has been a community effort in collaboration with Alan Renouf. I blogged about […]

Manage ESXi hosts without vCenter with latest fling called Boomerang

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New Free Application from VMware called VMware Boomerang. The application is available through VMware Labs together with many other cool applications there. Andy Grant did a guest post recently about another application from VMware labs called VMware Guest Console. This particular Freeware from VMware Labs can do that but it’s not predestined for that usage. […]