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Announcements

Aaron Sweemer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:30:41 +0000

VMworld 2010 is almost here! Are you going? If so, leave a comment. I’m very curious to know 1) if this is your first time, 2) the biggest reason you’re attending, and 3) what session(s) you are most looking forward to and why. If you would like to go, but you’re having trouble justifying the [...]

VMWorld recommendations – By popular demand…

Thomas Mackay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:31:33 +0000

All, Over the past few VMWorlds, I have sent out an email to my customers outlining some of my personal picks for the sessions I think would be the best to attend based on my direct experience with the speaker, either through personal relationship, or presenting with them at another event. I have taken a [...]

VMworld Day 2

Kelly Culwell — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:31:49 +0000

Yesterday afternoon, the Solutions Exchange area opened. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen more people and more vendors/booths in a single event. Walking around, it seems that everyone hires professional EmCees (masters of ceremony) to work their booths. Magicians and gimmicks are at a high level. The Blue Cat booth is doing the same thing [...]

Dan Anderson is my hero! (VMworld update)

Brandon Riley — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:26:54 +0000

If you’re at VMworld 2010, and you haven’t been to session ALT2004 - Building the VMworld Lab Cloud Infrastructure, I recommend you put that one on your schedule. Dan Anderson (VMware Principal Architect) is a great presenter, and hearing him describe in detail how he architected and built this year’s lab environment is mind-boggling. This [...]

VMworld 2010 Sunday/Monday update

Kelly Culwell — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:25:20 +0000

Well, my first VMworld experience started with a bang! After some seemingly too-long flights and an interesting shuttle ride from the airport to the hotel, I made it! I dropped off my stuff at the hotel and went to register. Thankfully, by 5:30, there was no one in line and the process was very quick. [...]

Life as a VMware Virtual Machine

Scott Sauer — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:48:09 +0000

Introduction I was talking with a local customer the other day that was inquiring about the differences between Microsoft virtualization (Hyper-V) and VMware virtualization solutions. This customer was hung up on putting the two vendors into a cage match and making them go at each other to see who won. I used to work [...]

Is VMware the Novell of Virtualization?

Brandon Riley — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:30:21 +0000

I think VMware is currently well positioned to become the Novell of virtualization. Consider the similarities: technical superiority, “career-safe” choice, large vested corporate user base, complex pricing models, arbitrary price increases in a captive market, Microsoft buying market share with free and nearly-free product. http://www.networkworld.com/community/tech-debate-microsoft-vmware Recently, the above comment was made by Guy Chapman on [...]

Single Throat to Choke

Guest Blogger — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:01:19 +0000

It seems fashionable these days to use the phrase “single throat to choke” with regard to vendors, and integrated solutions. Sadly, this seems to be used as a selling point by the big guys who are interested in bundling their offerings together. Other than IT guys who like to repeat buzzwords to make themselves feel [...]

Become a Virtualization Linchpin

Scott Sauer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:26:51 +0000

Introduction A fellow VMware Engineer recommended a book to me recently titled “Linchpin” by Seth Godin. The book has nothing to do with VMware or virtualization but it hits home for me because it highlights a lot of topics that I find applicable to our industry. I could not ignore this as a relevant force [...]

Two Garbage Cans are Better Than One – .NET

vTrooper — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:47:09 +0000

– The vTrooper Report – I was asked a question about a specific use case where a second vCPU should be added to a VM in a Virtualized environment. Generally its an easy answer; If the server can execute multiple threads and really uses the second vCPU for that other tread then it’s probably OK [...]