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VMware Partner Exchange 2013 Day 3

Well it's 1232am Wednesday the 27th 2013 and I have been up since Tuesday the 26th 645am, roughly 18 hours, I just wanted to thank VMware for another wonderful day at PEX 2013, as well as provide a quick breakdown of tomorrow events and where they are.

VMware Partner Exchange Day 2

The reason I started with day 2 is because out flight got cancelled out of Winnipeg on Sunday, so we had to fly out yesterday at 730am, we ended up getting into Las Vegas around 330-4pm and headed straight to our hotel, we checked in, and then hit the floor. A lot of vendors were there, like HP,...

Nathan is going to VMware Partner Exchange 2013!

VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5

Here we go VMware, tackling the application provisioning market, I have heard great things about VHAM 1.5, and am working on getting a solid PoC running in my home lab. I will tell you one thing, it is not for rookies that's for sure! VMware has been doing very well in the Readers Choice Awards...

How to troubleshoot a Purple Screen of Death on an ESXi Host

So your ESXi host is stuck at a PSOD or the “Purple Screen of Death”, what do you do? Well one would figure its hardware, but it also could be software related. Well I am going to tell you how to download and review the error logs. Mind you the way I am going to explain it is if the host can...

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit v8.0 is Ready for General Consumption

As I mentioned in a previous post about the MAP Beta, the full version is available for download, take advantage of this to get yourself ready for virtualization. I used it to help an Enterprise company plan for ESXi Hosts, hey who said you have to use Hyper-V :)

Overview The...

Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Cluster with VMware Virtual Machine using RDM

So you want to move your Server 2003 Servers to a clustered environment in VMware. First thing I must mention is  that it is supported by VMware but not Microsoft. So it should be pristine before and after migration. The problem I had been facing was that I would have a two node cluster with SAN...

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ESXi 5.0 Update 1 : Out Now!

That's right, this isn't quite hot off the presses, but most people are not aware that ESXi 5.0 Update 1 has been officially released.

What’s New The following information describes some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware...

vCenter Converter 5 Increase Clone Speed

Want to know how to increase the speed of a P2V by two to three times the speed? The reason is that all data is encrypted by default via SSL. This can be disabled. Why worry about encryption when conversions are in the confines of your building. P2V windows become smaller and downtime is...