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This blog post is just quick reminder about session at this years VMworld. Like many people I’m actually speaking twice. Once on Monday at noon, and then again (same session repeated) on Wednesday also at noon… Session ID: BC7773 Title: VMware Site Recovery Manager: Misconceptions and Misconfigurations Abstract: In the session, Mike Laverick (author of [...]

Welcome to vNews a monthly round-up of what’s been happening in the virtualization space. This months is quite heavily dominated by stuff from VMware, but does include stuff from Microsoft, EMC, NetApp and quick survey of the bloggersphere… Anyway, I kinda of do a round-up about what’s been happening in July. I should have really [...]

This week’s “Vendorwag” is with Bob Janssen of RES Software. Bob Janssen is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of RES Software. He has been responsible for product vision, strategy and development at RES Software since co-founding the company in 1999. He was instrumental in the creation of RES Software’s flagship products, RES PowerFuse User [...]

Noooooo. Not my book! McGraw-Hill aren’t that generous a publisher. Instead I speak of a free NetApp/vSphere book. It currently retails on lulu.com for $15.99 plus shipping. Anyway, over on the Virtual Storage Guy website they have 1,000 copies of the book to give away for free – for the first folks with a US/Canada [...]

I’ve been having an issue with VMware Tools, since I moved over to vSphere4.1. What happens is this. If you do a typical installation after a clean installation of Windows 7 (and I believe W2K8) then midway through the installation the VM is randomly, and arbitrarily rebooted. Of course in a busy day where you [...]

I’ve been recently doing some video work for VMware/Intel which was brought to my table by friends over at TechTarget on the SearchServerVirtualization.com website. It’s pitched squarely at the SMB market, and those who are new to virtualization and VMware. I think VMware making a big attempt to capture the SMB market, especially with their [...]

I had a funny experience this week. Earlier I completed my upgrade to vSphere4.1 (I think the change is not related, but not 100% sure…). I was inspired to get back to work on my guide on View 4.5. But when I started to create new Window 7 desktops I got a weird error which [...]

This weeks chinwaggee is Daniel Eason – I know Dan from attending the User Group in London. Plus I follow his blog and tweets. He’s  currently an IT Infrastructure Architect from the UK working for airline. His main specialisms are within the key areas of a Datacentre Infrastructure, and this covers technology such as Virtualisation [...]

I wrote an article recently about VMware U2. And I made this god awful pun associated with U2… Update 2 and the rockband U2. Geddit? Sadly, that reference didn’t really make the article on TechTarget. I dunno, perhaps Bono rang them up and said they couldn’t use it. The article was written sometime before the [...]

This is the final article in a series about the new vSphere4.1 release. To be honest as I begin to the use the software on a daily basis I’m beginning to count a significant number of tiny enhancements here and there, that went totted up together really make difference. So I’m thinking at some stage [...]

Today Yesterday, I embarked on an upgrade from vSphere 4.0 U2 to vSphere 4.1. There’s a couple of caveats here and some gotchas. Firstly, I backed up my vCenter DB, and also shutdown my SQL2K8 and vCenter VMs, and took a snapshot of them before beginning. In terms of the order – you MUST started [...]

“This week’s “Vendorwag” is with the folks at Double-Take Software. Specifically, with Ian Masters of DoubleTake. Ian is UK Sales and Marketing Director at Double-Take Software, and has been advising organisations on their requirements for business continuity, disaster recovery and backup for over a decade. He has a wide background in the virtualisation, storage and [...]

Well, how’s that for blummin’ obscure blog post title. This is for a very small number of readers who say yes to the following questions: Own a iPhone4 Own a Mazda MX5 (Latest model type) Have the Bose Sound system Have the optional iPOD connector in the glove compartment My iPOD cable is long enough [...]

I say AyePhone. Because if your from the North of England, when anyone say iPhone – it always makes think of some Yorkshire Sheep Farmer. Aye… Phone. I don’t normally blog about consumer based stuff because – well, basically I don’t care too much about it to be honest. Occasionally, you will see me blog [...]

Intriguing blogpost title? I’m hoping your wondering – hey, Mike what on earth is a “primative”. What is the fourth one, and why is it hidden. Well, it’s all about how VAAI was meant to have 4 components. And there are. But folks are just being quite quiet about the 4 component. I think this [...]

This week it was my pleasure to be on the receiving end of chinwag. That’s when I get interviewed, and I just talk and talk and talk. Hey, you say – Mike? What’s new… :-p Yeah, I know I do go on sometimes. I guess I just can’t control my natural enthusiasm for hearing my [...]

For those of you in the UK, you might think I was chinwagging to the Conservative MP. Well, you’d be wrong. I’m not aware of any coalition policies surround virtualization yet. You should know of THE David Davis through his series of videos on a range of topics including Vi3 and vSphere4 for TrainSignal. David [...]

Following on my series of blogposts about vSphere4.1 this article is all about the ch-ch-ch-changes to ESXi. For me, personally – these changes are the MOST important ones in vSphere4.1. Without them, I think VMware would have a real fight on its hands to prize the Service Console from the cold-dead hands of hard-core VMware [...]

So here’s the back story. A couple of weeks before yesterday’s GA of vSphere4.1 myself and the rest of the bloggers who make up the vCommunity – were privileged to be given 3 closed sessions all about what is new in vSphere4.1. The first rule was the fight club rule, in that we couldn’t blog [...]

You see the first rule of fight club is – you don’t talk about fight club. Honestly, what is the point of an NDA when others are able to talk…? http://www.vladan.fr/vmotion-for-smb-market-with-vsphere-4-1-essentials-plus/ http://virtualization.info/en/news/2010/07/vmware-will-ship-vsphere-4-1-on-july-13.html