No more Windows Patching via VMware Update Manager 5.
Messing around the new VMware Update Manager and I noticed this little piece of information. Update Manager 5.0 does not support VM patching. Prior versions of Update Manager…
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VMware Enterprise or Enterprise Plus?
You may have heard about the coming licensing changes from VMware. You may have heard about the new vRAM licensing and some of the impacts it will have…
VMware Fling : ThinApp’d vSphere Client
Finally! I’ve been wishing for this for a WHILE now and VMware has finally come through. Straight out of VMware Labs is a ThinApp’d version of the vSphere…
VAAI in vSphere 4.1 COULD break your RecoverPoint consistency groups!
Jeff Miller sent over this warning for environments leveraging vSphere 4.1 and RecoverPoint. Here is all the technical gooeyness. If you are not running FLARE R30 Q410 type…
Building the ESXi Boot Drive.
With my new lab being built out for VMware vSphere 4.1, I took the opportunity to make the jump over to ESXi from ESX. The unconfirmed rumor is…
2010 – A Look Back
So the end of the year is coming up quick so I figured I would start on the obligatory year-end review. A chance to look back at the…
Are your VMware, Citrix and AD teams talking? They should be.
So here are some quick lessons I learned recently in some of the Citrix Provisioning XenDesktop vSphere environments I have been working in. The typical solution consists of…
Release : vSphere 4.1
WOW, news travels fast in the Blogosphere! vSphere 4.1 was released officially yesterday and there seems to be at least a couple dozen blog posts already out detailing…
How to enable ALUA and Round Robin Multipathing with ESX and Clariion CX4
John Simon put in some hard work and great effort in producing and SHARING this document on how to enable ALUA and Round Robin Multipathing. For some background…