There has been talk about changes to the VMUG program coming soon. Earlier this year a steering committee meeting took place in Chicago, IL. Below are some of the upcoming changes that are a result of …

By Donald Dodge
Microsoft reported record revenues and profits for the quarter and fiscal year. Yet, the stock (MSFT) is down again. What does Wall Street want from Microsoft? I think the problem is that Microsoft …

By now you’re sure to have heard that vSphere 4.1 offers the ability to use Active Directory for authentication. This is something that has been on peoples wish lists for sometime now. There was some …

After a recent release of a comparison chart from VMware marketing it appears that VKernel is also taking the gloves off…

With the big news that vSphere 4.1 was released and available for download, get a summary on the newest features and benefits included in the release.

Scripted Install for ESXi. Scripted installation of ESXi to…

By Fadi Albatal, FalconStor Software
As virtualization enters the mainstream and continues to spread across the data center to reach into primary workloads and applications, data protection has become one of the highest priorities of IT …

By Mike Laverick
OK. I admit it the ONLY reason for this blogpost title is get you to pay attention. I don’t really mean that at all. But now I’ve suckered you into reading this thing …

By Mike Laverick
Yesterday I had the pleasure meeting Jacob Jensen of VMware. He’s VMware new Product Group Manager for the SRM product – prior to this he was heavily involved in the network piece of …

By Brian Suhr 
With more talk about Storage IO Control (SIOC) each month, VMware is starting to leak more details about the feature. The best write up on the feature was by Scott Drummonds last month …

By Brian Suhr
Hot off the presses! The latest update for VMware vSphere is now available for download. Both Update 2 for ESX 4.0, ESXi 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 are all available now. Run don’t walk …

This week I spent some (not all) of my time playing about with a Panologic Device.
It’s not a PC and its not a dumb-terminal. It’s something else all together – its what’s called a zero-client. What that means is essentially the device is truly stateless. It boots over the network to what’s called the Pano Manager, which then acts as…

By Donald Dodge
Every salesperson knows this, but many entrepreneurs don’t. If they aren’t ready to listen, it doesn’t matter what you have to say. Saying it five different ways won’t help. Saying it louder, faster, …

By Brian Suhr
Whether your tracking down an issue on your own or collection data to submit a support request to VMware your gonna need to round up the necessary log files. I have collected and listed some of the main log locations from VMware and also linked to KB articles covering a full list of log file locations.