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Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware – book to have

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If you’re enterprise admin and running VMware vSphere in your company, you might be interested in following book by VMware press – Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right. This book written by Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak and Michael Webster is currently in pre-order and the pre-order price allows you to save 19% of […]

My VSAN journey – all done!

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Another VSAN homelab is born! After waiting some time for more SSDs, Infiniband cables and Perc H310 storage controller cards from eBay, now when all the pieces has arrived I’m able to put everything together and run my VMware VSAN cluster. I expanded my older hosts with internal storage (previously there was a shared storage […]

VSAN Hardware Design Guide 1.0 Released – Check it out

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A new PDF VSAN Hardware design Guide 1.0 has been released by VMware recently. This guide, called VMware® Virtual SAN™ Hardware Guidance help out with the designing the necessary hardware for VMware VSAN. Even if blade servers are supported for VSAN, they’re not optimal because of their limited space to hold disk groups. Also extensibility of […]

Xangati Released Two New Dashboards to extend their Software Suite

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Xangati just announced two new dashboards in their software suite. Xangati is a specialist in end-to-end real time monitoring, but their product offers some unique capabilities, like storm tracking or automatic recording when your infrastructure is performing badly. There is new Executive Dashboard which offers an overall view of VDI and VI components and also […]

How to add RDS functionality to Horizon View 6

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The newly announced Horizon View 6 flagship product from VMware brought great enhancements from the architectural point of view as you could already read about in my yesterday’s post. However from the administrator’s point of view (not from the architect’s perspective) there are some really cool features that I’d like to point out in this […]

VMware Horizon Workspace Fundamentals [V1.8] Free Training

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VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 which has been released last month is fully compatible with vSphere 5.5 U1. The product grew further with new feature and enhancements. While you can read what’s new below, I’d like to point you to New Free 2 hours training for VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 called VMware Horizon Workspace Fundamentals [V1.8]. If […]

Shadowing RDS connections in Windows 2012 R2

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Some sources reported that Microsoft has removed the possibility to shadow RDS connections in Windows 2012, but then put it back in the Windows 2012 R2 release. I quickly checked in my lab on two VMs, but saw that both versions of Windows Server 2012 allows that. I double checked that and unfortunately the statement […]

vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – scale up or scale out?

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Quite a few cool posts on home labs lately triggers this post concerning vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – designs and evolution. There was the first one I spotted on Erik Bussink’s blog yesterday which talks about Shift in homelab designs. Erik is right when saying that the requirements for homelab are exploding.  And now he just […]

Check out the TOP vBlog 2014 Results

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Last night I was watching (or trying to) the TOP vBlog 2014 voting live with @ericsiebert @jtroyer @RickVanover and @davidmdavis. Awesome event, great competition and excellent motivation for the future. This year there was 320 blogs participating. The list is just huge….-:) There was over 1400 votes this year compared to around 1300 last year. The number of […]