April 14, 2012 5:32 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
CAnada,
Cisco,
cloud computing,
conference,
Epic Technology Day,
event,
HP,
IBM,
Information Technology,
Manitoba,
Meru Networks,
SonicWALL,
Virtualization,
VMWare,
WinnipegHi folks, it's that time of year again. EPIC will be holding their Technology Day event in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and you won't want to miss it.
The event is chock full of IT goodness and all the usual suspects will be there as well as some new vendors you may have not seen before such as...
March 31, 2012 10:51 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
Consumer Preview,
Microsoft,
Virtualization,
VMWare,
VMware ESX,
VMware ESXi,
VMware Fusion,
VMware Workstation,
Windows 8Hi folks, so the Windows 8 Consumer preview was released. If you want to get a taste of Windows 8 might be like then it's quite easy to test.
Does this mean you have to blow away your Windows 7 installation to try it out? Of course not! In this day and age of virtualization, we have VMware on...
February 29, 2012 8:27 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
deadline,
VCP 5,
VMWareHi folks! So if you are a current VCP 4, today is the deadline date to upgrade!
If you want to upgrade to your VCP 5 without having to attend a course, then you need to have written the exam by today. For those of you that haven't done it already, it's too late, you are now going to have to...
November 30, 2011 11:58 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
replication,
Veeam 6,
virtual backups,
VMWareHi folks, for those of you that love the virtualization world as much as i do, great news! Veeam 6 has been released!
Veeam is the product that I love to use for backing up virtual machines. There are a lot of products out there that can accomplish this but Veeam has always had some great...
July 31, 2011 11:06 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
Licensing,
licensing costs,
VMWare,
vRAM,
vSphere 5Hi folks! So unless you have been hiding under a rock you will notice that vSphere 5 from VMware has been announced!
With the new announcement is a whole host of new features but also a change in...
July 31, 2011 10:59 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
backup,
ESX,
ESXi,
snapshots,
virtual machines,
VM,
VMWareHi folks! So as you know, one of the coolest features of having a VMware virtualized environment is snapshots. The ability to take a snap of a point in time on the server and then revert to it if need be.
Lots of backup products leverage this capability to provide virtual machine backups....
February 28, 2011 11:04 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
backup,
free,
VCP,
Veeam,
Virtualization,
VMWareHi folks! So if you follow my blog you have probably read about Veeam before.
It's one of my favourite backup solutions for VMware environments. Veeam has been steadily improving it's product offering and has always been at the forefront of virtual machine backup solutions in my opinion. Now...
February 28, 2011 5:52 AM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
ESX,
ESXi,
license,
Licensing,
multi-core,
policy,
virtual,
Virtualization,
VMWare,
vSphereHi folks! So now with 6 core processors readily available for servers, the questions about VMware and multi-core licensing are starting to crop up again.
Generally you license based on a certain amount of cores, and if you exceed that, you buy a license to upgrade you to more cores. However you...
November 30, 2010 5:58 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
ESX,
ESXi,
Licensing,
VMWare,
vSphereHi folks! As you know, nothing is static in the IT world especially licensing!
Earlier this year in September, VMware transitioned to per VM licensing for some of their products. Other products stayed with their original licensing model. This can get confusing for customers so VMware has it all...
