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VMware Blast protocol vs PCoIP
Gunnar Berger has a neat video he posted to YouTube last night with a side-by-side comparison of connecting to a Windows 7 desktop using HTML5 (“Blast” protocol) vs a connection using PCoIP.
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2013 Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs
2013 Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs I’m not on here (mostly because I just launched) but a lot of fantastic blogs that I follow are.
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VMware Converter Standalone 5.1 beta
VMware Converter Standalone 5.1 beta What’s New? Support for virtual machine hardware version 9 Guest operating system support for Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Guest operating...
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RVTools 3.5
RVTools 3.5 Rob de Veij has released an updated version of RVTools. What’s new? On vInfo tabpage new field: Resource pool On vInfo tabpage new field: Consolidation needed. On vCPU tabpage new field:...
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White Paper: Six Tips for vSphere Resource Pools
White Paper: Six Tips for vSphere Resource Pools Understanding Resource Pools is essential for VMware administrators. This is a great little white paper published by Dell that explains some of the...
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VMware View Clients Updated
Updated clients for VMware Horizon View have been released by VMware. These new clients are optimized for Horizon View 5.2, as well as the newly released View Feature Pack. With the additional Feature...
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Out of Office
I love this. I’m off work all this week and out for training (EMC Isilon) the week after that, I have an OoO up until April. Of course I’ll still be blogging and tweeting, but if you email me at work?...
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VMware Fusion 5.0.3
VMware Fusion 5.0.3 This is a free upgrade to existing Fusion 5 users. Resolved Issues Added support for Boot Camp partitions on 3TB disk drives. Improved the cursor performance for select...
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On Oracle VM 3
Oracle VM 3 improved a lot, they are not close to Microsoft or VMware, but it is pretty good if you are not trying to do dramatic things like moving virtual machines around. Gartner’s vice president...
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Veeam 7 Backup & Replication Web Client
Veeam 7 will feature a web client plugin for your vCenter Web Client, allowing you to manage your Veeam jobs in the same interface as your virtual machines, similar to the functionality of the...
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Xen is now a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
Xen is now a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project → Very interesting. Citrix is hoping that, by donating the code to the Linux Foundation, future Xen development will get input from a wider, more...
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vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide, Official Release
vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide, Official Release → Hot off the presses.
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VMware has updated its certification names/logos, again
VMware has updated its certification names/logos → Nothing lives forever, nothing stays the same. What was the VCP until September of last year was originally going to be the VCP-DV, is now the...
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vOpenData Public Dashboard
vOpenData Public Dashboard → Data visualization geeks, rejoice. What is vOpenData? vOpenData is an open community project that grew from the question “What is the average VMDK size for deployed virtual...
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Tape backup of virtual environments with Veeam, coming soon
Tape backup of virtual environments with Veeam, coming soon → Virtual tape libraries, tape loaders and standalone drives are all supported in version 7 of VBR, coming soon. This is welcomed news for a...
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How and Why I’m Using Evernote
How and Why I’m Using Evernote → I wrote a similar article nearly three years ago over when I was spinning stories over at TechVirtuoso. The use cases and the number of users of the product has...
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Windows 8 shows reduced IOPS requests, more ideal for VDI than Windows 7?
Windows 8 shows reduced IOPS requests, more ideal for VDI than Windows 7? → Interesting analysis by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici). I suppose if you disregard the jarring user experience in a...
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Audience Quality > Audience Quantity
It is important to create work you are proud of and if you are consistent and you keep working hard at it, you’ll get the outcome it deserves … an engaged and targeted audience is much more effective...
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Yet another unpatched security hole found in Java
Yet another unpatched security hole found in Java → Awesome! I’d hate to have a week where I didn’t have to update Java on my systems again.
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Huawei is calling it quits in the United States
Huawei is calling it quits in the United States → “We are not interested in the U.S. market any more.” Probably because most US businesses were not to excited to base their infrastructure on the...
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