Jason Nash, VarrowThis was a great session that delved into the depths of the VMware VDS that ships with vSphere 5.0 and 5.1. VMware has put a lot of new features in to the 5.1 VDS. Development on the standard vSwitch has pretty much ceased, so you will need to...
Greg Shields, Concentrated Technology partner. This session focused on the main HA/DRS mistakes that people make when virtualizing their infrastructure. Greg is a great speaker and also has presented sessions at TechEd and other conferences. HA/DRS settings are so easy to set and forget, or forget to set, that everyone...
Krishna Raj Raja, VMware. This session was a super deep dive on ESXtop stats, and how to read them. In short, unless you are vSphere guru and understand how the hypervisor really works, then using ESXtop is NOT for you. Use more friendly tools like vCenter Operations manager, which takes...
Speaker: Michael Adams, VMware ([email protected]) vCloud Suite Launches very soon - Free upgrade for Enterprise Plus Customers. Should be in Q3, meaning Sept 2012. Jump upgrades possible in the future, or VMware may recommend customers can skip a release VMware plans on yearly vSphere Suite upgrades for customers vCloud Suite...
Today if the first full day of VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. To kick the week off they started off with a general session with some announcements, but nothing that wasn't already rumored. The biggest announcement was the removal of the vRAM vTAX for vSphere. vSphere will now just be...
A few days ago VMware released a brand new version of their desktop virtualization product, Workstation 9.0. This release brings a lot of new features, but the biggest one is full support for Windows 8 and multi-touch. You can check out the full release notes here. Its great to see...
Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2012 is an integrated platform for automating and adapting an organization's IT service management best practices. It has built-in processes for incident and problem management, change management, service request fulfillment, release management, service level management and configuration management. As part of the System Center suite...
Snag-It is one of those tools that all IT people need, as it's an indispensable tool for grabbing screen shots, adding call outs, and cropping images. It is well worth the few dollars it costs for a license. Earlier this year Snag-It 11.0 was released, with some nice new features,...
A few days ago VMware released an updated custom HP ISO image for ESXi 5.0 Update 1, which includes all of the HP specific drivers and agents. The big difference between this release and prior HP ESXi 5.0 releases is that you can download them directly from VMware and not...
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have a number of brand new boot-time security features to help combat malware. While this article is not going to discuss them in depth, I will briefly describe them so you understand what they are and how to configure one feature, Secure Boot. Microsoft...
WARNING: This blog post has been superseded by my updated post here. Do not use the article below, as it is outdated. WARNING: This blog post has been superseded by my updated post here. Do not use the article below, as it is outdated. ---------- Based on my popular article (#1...
One of the new features added to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and R2 is the ability to slipstream a service pack into the installation. This streamlines the installation, and reduces human error. Now that SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 is officially out, here's how to slipstream SQL Server 2008 R2...