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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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Hello, readers of VirtualizationAdmin.com! My name is Scott Lowe and I’m thrilled to introduce myself as VirtualizationAdmin.com's new lead author. A huge fanatic of all things virtual, I bring more than sixteen years of experience in the Information Technology field to my writing. Starting . more...
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Sunday, 25 April 2010 |
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Spiceworks IT Desktop Version 4.6 Provides More Granular Management Control of Desktops and Servers for 900,000 IT Professionals WorldwideAUSTIN, Texas – March 24, 2010 – Spiceworks™, Inc. today announced the release of a new version of its free IT management software that includes features designed to help IT professionals better manage their computers, networked devices and software. more...
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 |
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Have you heard that VMware has released a new version of their application virtualization solution, ThinApp? As you probably know, I created a video training course that covers ThinApp so I am very excited to checkout the new features. Fortunately, VMware has a new blog post that covers all the new features including RELINK and Windows 7 compatibility. Read the full VMware blog post at- VMware ThinApp 4.5 is released!. more...
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Sunday, 28 March 2010 |
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Xangati recently released a VMware vSphere appliance that provides "video-like" visibility to your virtual network. Offered with a 14-day free trial, this appliance is able to view all traffic crossing your virtual network and allow you to monitor that traffic through sleek interface. Similar to a DVR that you would use to pause and rewind your TV shows, Xangati for ESX is able to offer the same "rewind feature" for your VMware infrastructure. more...
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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Interested in VMware certification like the VCP and VCDX? vExperts Cody Bunch (of professionalvmware.com) and Tom Howarth (of planetvm.net) are offering a FREE new VCP and VCDX online / live study session of the VMware VCP and VCDX. You can either join into a session live or listen to recorded study whenever you want. Trust me, when going for one of these sessions will help you tremendously. more...
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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Rich Brambley (@RBrambley) and crew from the new Virtuamania podcast are both educational and entertaining! This new podcast covers everything that you need to know about virtualization, storage, and servers. Rich has a real talent for making this stuff COOL and FUN, all at the same time (something not easy to do).
Listen to the Virtumania Podcast here!
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 |
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I recently talked with Charles Windom of VMware and he mentioned that he has a new vSphere book coming out which covers how to virtualize Microsoft Tier-1 Applications using vSphere. I think that this is a very important topic so I pre-ordered my copy. I hope that you will take a look! (just click on the graphic below)
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Monday, 22 March 2010 |
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Here is a cool press release from UniPrint related to virtual desktops / VDI:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 9, 2010 – UniPrint (www.uniprint.net), the innovative leader in printing virtualization for server-centric environments, today launched UniPrint Version 7.0. Incorporating an enhan. more...
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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This week, I was the guest on a new weekly virtualization podcast called This Week in Virtualization. In this episode, we talked about the next version of vSphere and its features - to be released at an unspecified date. You can watch on a webpage or you can subscribe to an iTunes RSS feed and watch in iTunes or on your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. Click on the video below to bring up the webpage to watch:
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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Brad Hedlund over at Internetwork Expert.org made a really amazing post about the Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000V, and the Palo Adaptor. With UCS, there are a couple of network adapters designed just for virtualization. There is one for the blade UCS and one for the rack-mount UCS. more...
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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I was a guest on the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast this week where I covered my new vSphere Pro Series Volume 1 video. After that quick promo, VMware's ESXi product management discussed the upcoming release of ESXi and what it will look like in the future. It was really amazing info! You can listen to it on the web, or subscribe to it in iTunes.
Here's a graphic from the podcast:
List to the VMware Communities Roundtable here. more...
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
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This week, VMware announced an acquisition of certain pieces of EMC management software to expand the VMware vCenter Management Product Family. By doing this, they "hope to address critical management needs as customers advance on journey to cloud computing."
Basically, the pieces that they are purchasing are pieces of EMC's Ionix. more...
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 |
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Want to manage a Hyper-V server remotely? Perhaps you want to manage your Hyper-V servers from your desktop PC...
To do this, you need to install Microsoft's Hyper-V remote MMC. You can find all the instructions to download this MMC and get it installed at:
TechNet - Install and Configure Hyper-V Tools for Remote Administrators. more...
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
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In 2009, VMware published a lot of knowledgebase (KB) articles. However, there were 10 that stood out and were the most popular of 2009. more...
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
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vSphere-Land.com has performed their annual survey and named the Top Virtualization Blogs of 2009.
For the complete list, visit vSphere-Land.com or click on the graphic below.
And yes, I hope to make the list next year ;-)
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
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Have you watched VMware TV? Well, no, it's not a real TV channel but it is a channel on YouTube where VMware has posted a lot of great videos. There are videos covering VMware View, Cloud Computing, Fusion, technical vSphere videos, and VMworld. You can see them all at VMwareTV
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
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I created short new 5 minute video that details the hardware used for my VMware vSphere home lab. Click on the video graphic below to bring up the page with the video, then click play:
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 |
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Periodically we ask our readers to vote on the best virtualization products. The readers have spoken when it comes to the best hypervisor available today. 56% of our readers chose VMware ESX where only 30% voted for Microsoft Server 2008 Hyper-V.
Read the full story at: VMware ESX - Voted VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Hypervisors. more...
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 |
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You may structure your virtual infrastructure inventory very differently than the structure of your business. So how do you match up the business with the virtual infrastructure? You can do it for free with Veeam Business View. Here is what it looks like:
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Learn about it and download it for FREE at- Veeam Business View. more...
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 |
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For those who aren’t familiar with it, SRM is VMware's Site Recovery Manager. SRM is used for disaster recovery of an entire datacenter running VMware virtual infrastructure.
The new version 4 is compatibile with vSphere 4 and, if you use vSphere (or plan to), I highly recommnd that you consider SRM to ensure that you can successfully and quickly execute your DR plan. more...
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