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Vaughn Stewart is the Virtualization Evangelist for NetApp and a member of the Reference Architecture Team.  He is the co-author of several whitepapers on integrating VMware technologies on NetApp systems.  Vaughn publishes the blog: the Virtual Storage Guy, has a patent pending, and has earned industry certifications on technologies offered by Brocade, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, [...]

Hi there, and welcome to this months vNews.  A monthly round up of what’s going on in the world of virtualization. Yeah, I scan all the blogs – filter out what I can and then regurgitate it for you pleasure. That doesn’t sound nice. I do these occasionally for the user groups I’m speak at, [...]

I recently made the move over to using an Apple MBP, and was able to find the full Mac Client for my new laptop. The wheels came off when it came to licensing. Seems like I had temporary license on my MBP which when it expired wouldn’t be cleared. It took some google-wacking to find [...]

Here’s a round up of my favourite articles on the TechTarget site. VDI is a hot hot hot topic this week. At the top of my agenda this year is getting familiar with the XenDesktop product – and these need to know articles do help in that process. SearchVirtualDesktop.com… What you need to know about Citrix XenDesktop [...]

In this quick little tip I show you how you can use EMC Storage Viewer – to bridge the gap between the information you see in EMC NaviSphere application and the information you see in vSphere4. For years VMware Admins have struggled to map their datastores in ESX to the underlying LUN on the storage [...]

Well, OK – I guess now that View4 has been released you could say this is a little old hat. But… much I what I write about in View3 is much the same in View4! Honestly! Someday I plan to revisit this series of articles probably when VMware 4.5 is released… By then [...]

Here’s all the articles I wrote about the NetApp Rapid Clone Utility 3.0 available on TechTarget.com. The three articles build as series to show you the full functionality of the NetApp RCU 3.0. At the time I wrote this – 3.0 was in beta but I imagine it has GA’d now. Part one of the series [...]

According to popular mythology many people mistaken think Al Renouf is French. He is in fact British, and his name probably reflects many centuries of Gallic influence in the United Kingdom. You might know Al by his punning website and twitter handle – virtu-al. When he’s not chasing spiders out of his son’s bedroom – [...]

Following on from my recent “Chinwag” with Gabrie Van Zanten, this blogpost compares the relative merits of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop. It raises the issue that a VDI project does offer the tempting possibility of considering other virtualization vendors other than VMware. It also posits the idea that by diversifying your virtual portfolio to [...]

There’s a live Q&A with the Microsoft virtualization team next Tuesday (23rd February) from 4pm to 7pm on Vistaheads. Representatives from Microsoft, including Senior Product Manager for System Center Virtual Machine Manager Edwin Yuen, will be fielding questions and contributing to discussions about the future of the virtualization industry. Topics for discussion will include: Security – [...]

Gabrie van Zanten (VCP) has been in the IT industry for 12 years. Currently he is a virtualization architect for a consultancy company and has designed and maintained virtual infrastructures for a number of customers. He has written articles for magazines and frequently publishes in-depth articles at his weblog, GabesVirtualWorld www.gabesvirtualworld.com www.twitter.com/gabvirtualworld In our little chinwag we discussed [...]

In this series of articles, we will be looking at the new generation of VMware vSphere 4 plug-ins that make it increasingly easier to see your storage from the vCenter/vSphere client. In addition, you will learn how the NetApp Rapid Cloning Utility is not just a virtual machine (VM) copying tool, but also allows you [...]

In this second part on my series on SRM, I discuss where SRM might be going in future. Part one is here if you missed it Command steps/PowerCLI support In the SRM product, it’s possible to create steps that call-out other scripting engines, such as Microsoft PowerShell and VMware’s PowerCLI. It’s a must-have feature if you want [...]

I first met Jay Rogers at the Charlotte User Summit (North Carolina) a couple of years ago, and we’ve buddies ever since. He regularly drops me emails which are about real-world VMware Customer experiences. I find these invaluable as I increasingly find myself living in the ratified world of blogging and writing – and have [...]

This evening I will be on the VMware Podcast with Steve Chambers (Cisco). You can listen to us live or subscribe to the podcast series by dropping along to this link. We kick of at 8pm (GMT). That’s about 45mins from now. Sorry about the late notification but I was away from my blog and couldn’t [...]

Crisis? What crisis? I hope VMware will widen the scope of its storage options for its disaster recovery automation product, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), this year. At the moment SRM only works with storage array-based replication from the big storage vendors. So far, purely software-based replication of VMs from the likes of VizionCore and Veeam has [...]

When I first became involved in virtualisation back in 2003 and 2004, people used to ask me if anyone actually used virtualisation in a product. Most of the time, their plans were to initially restrict its usage to test and development environments and disaster recovery (DR). Quite rightly, I guess, they saw these environments as [...]

In this quick tip, I’m going to show how you can use VMware PowerCLI scripts as part of your VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery plan. This quick tip is taken from my soon-to-be-released book on VMware SRM 4.0. Read on…

This weeks chinwag is with Chris Dearden. It’s a first chinwag I’ve done – so many thanks to Chris for being my hapless guinea pig. I learnt quite a bit in the recent weeks preparing for this – which I think is subject in its own right. There are SO many competing formats, software and [...]

Right you north of England based Virtualisation fanciers listen up, the date of the next Northern VMUG has been set for Tuesday the 13th April  at the Round Foundry in Leeds. Now this is a short walk from the Leeds train station,and also has good local parking. further to this there are a number of good [...]