Furoris News

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 [...]

One of the things that always frustrates me about VMware vSphere and its predecessors – is how ungeared up its graphical UI is for so called bulk administrative tasks. I’d goes so far to say its one the single most important things that VMware could improve its in management environment. What do I mean by [...]

Well, I have been a bizzy bee. Writing lots of content for RTFM big parent website – TechTarget. A couple of months back I was very fortunate to get some free training on Microsoft Hyper-V/SCVMM courtesy of Microsoft. Oh, if only Citrix could be so welcoming and helpful. Never mind. Anyway, I wrote an enormous [...]

Well, a nice email await for me inbox on Saturday morning. I’ve managed to make it into the vExpert 2010 award program. The award recognises “The VMware vExpert Award is given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of VMware users over the past year.” Anyway, I nominated some people here in the UK, [...]

Next week I head off to North Carolina, for their annual user summit in Charlotte. It will be my 3rd year (or is 4th I forget now). I will be doing two panel sessions there with my pals – Scott Lowe, Chad Sakac and Vaughn Stewart… Anyway, I touch down late Thursdays, and I will scoot [...]

This week I spent some (not all) of my time playing about with a Panologic Device. [Oh, and contrary to popular belief - they didn't pay me to do this, and I didn't ask for any money. I all asked for was a the device and software so I could play. Remember, after years of documenting [...]

My friends in the SRM Team are running a survey to gather valuable information about how customers use and deploy SRM. In effort to reach as many people as possible – here’s the incentive. On completion of the survey, you will be able to download a copy of my new SRM 4.0 book, in return [...]

Welcome to this months vNews, and what with me being holiday during this time – there is lots to report. Did the vendors know I was on my holidays – and release stuff just as I board the plane. Anyway, I’m back from Crete where I took my break – whilst I was there I [...]

Yes, Just like a politician I need you to vote for me – and my VMworld session. I promise to cut the budget decifict, I won’t raise taxes, and I will increase spending on your local infrastructure. Promises Promises... http://www.vmworld.com/community/conferences/2010/cfpvote/pcbusiness

It’s been brought to my attention that there two typos in my SRM 4.0 book surrounding the Microsoft SQL Configuration. On page 151 on step 8, I incorrectly state you should select “Windows Authentication” when it should read “SQL Authentication”. It pretty obvious typo as in the book I’d spent a couple of pages explaining the [...]