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Well, I’m going out on a limb here, because this idea could TOTALLY crash and burn! But what the hell. If don’t get submission, I will quietly walk away. Climb under stone, and pretend I never had the idea in the first place. That it was someone else’s idea etc.etc.. Remember this idea has NOTHING [...]

I first came across Panologic at the North Carolina User Summit some years ago, and then again when they presented to the London VMware User Group. I recently did an evaluation of their device and management software. Anyway, of the back that I made a request to do a “vendorwag”. This is a new idea [...]

The Steering Committee are pleased to announce the next UK London VMware User Group meeting, kindly sponsored by EMC to be held on Thursday 15th July 2010. We hope to see you at the meeting, and afterwards for a drink or two, courtesy of VMware. Our meeting will be held at the Thames Suite, London [...]

This weeks chinwag was recorded a couple of weeks ago with Rich Bramley. Rich was speaking from his bat/man cave in the basement surrounded by all his kit. You know Rich from his blog vmetc.com. The picture above is of Rich and his kids at Falcon game. If you want to check out Rich’s blog [...]

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… If you want to use my PowerPoints in the vNews for your User Group, you can download [...]

I’m re-posting this blogpost – because there was a problem with the comments feature in WP which I think I have resolved. Sorry, about that. Anyway, I would be really interested in peoples thoughts. Yesterday I had the pleasure meeting Jacob Jensen of VMware. He’s VMware new Product Group Manager for the SRM product – [...]

Just like Al Renouf, Charle Gautreaux is NOT French. Well, that’s what they say… but I’ve never seen their birth certificates…. Charlie is good friend of mine from the State o’ North Carolina where he resides in the environs of the city of Charlotte. Charlie is a virtualization advocate and proud father of one.  Charlie [...]

I first heard this on Jools Holland’s “Later” since then the album has gone into the top ten. I really digging the Smokey Robinson style falsetto.

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 let me explain. I’ve written an article for TechTarget which is all about my take on VMware’s recent alliance with Novell. In [...]

This weeks chinwag is Eric Siebert. It was actually recorded about two weeks ago. I was at some hotel near Manchester Airport on my way to the North Carolina User Summit, in Charlotte. Eric runs the very popular vmware-land.com. Here’s an author too and has written many books about virtualization and VMware. He’s recently published [...]

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 vSphere4, and prior to that worked for Cisco. Jacob has been over in EMEA for some weeks, sounding out customers and partners [...]

Well, that isn’t really very true. It’s not very new at all. It’s been available on Carl’s www.ultimatedeployment.org website for AGES! And I have been just to goddamn lazy to bring it over into the ESX format, and package it up as an OVA file – for easy importing. Carl has been a busy bee, [...]

Good news! (for me at least!), my session at VMworld has been nominated for the San Francisco event…and Copenhagen as well. That kinda of surprised me as I expected the voting would cover just SanFran, and there would be separate voting round for Copenhagen. But I guess the two events are so near to each [...]

Now this one isn’t much of an issue. Basically, if you upgrade to U2, you have to download and upgrade the VEM that makes up the Cisco Nexus 1000V implementation. But hey, that’s something your “network team” will be able to handle, eh? :-p http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022721

This weeks chinwag is Steve Bruck. Steve is a regular attendee of the London VMware User Group, and the last time we met up, I managed to corner him our pub (The Pavillion), and teased about when he was going to make a show on my chinwag. Well, after some arm twisting and some vBeers [...]

Or put a little more accurately. Updating vSphere4 to vSphere 4 Update 2… which also updates VMware Tools… can stop PCoIP connections to fail… Of course, you not silly and upgrade to a latest version of vSphere4 without waiting for things to shake out – like me for example… Looking at the KB in question, [...]

The chinwag has been offline for a couple of weeks, mainly because I was on holiday in the middle of May. I should have Scott Lowe on the chinwag last week when I was in Finland, teaching the Fast Track course for DNS Arrow – sadly the wifi and Skype were playing up – so [...]

Citrix recently announced their work is almost done on the client hypervisor (can you call it a hypervisor if their is a DOM0 or parent partition?). That apparently ruffled some feathers and caused a bit of kerfuffle. [Yes, that really is an Andy & Lou reference] Personally, I wondering what the big deal is all [...]

It’s come to my attention that some venerable commentors believe the good ship VMware View 4.5 is trouble, and taking in water. It’s my firm belief that the ship is steady as she goes… Don’t believe me?  Look I know when the GA is but I can’t say because I’m gagged (AKA NDA’d) by VMware! [...]

One of the most hotly contested issues debated on my training courses is whether you should or should not virtualize vCenter. Some folks are convinced that it should remain physicalized citing somewhat out-date recommendation to this affect back in VMWorld 2005. Well, there’s nothing like keeping you best practice policies up-to-date is there. As for [...]