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Riddle: How do you power-off a VM if it’s already powered off?

As an instructor, Mike Laverick firmly believes that "pulling the plug" (or, restarting the host VM) is not the answer every time you run into a problem with a virtual machine that resides on the host VM. He is a believer in figuring out what's causing the issue and fixing it. After all, why shoot...

So, you want to learn View, ThinApp, Nexus 1000V and PowerCLI?

As all of you no doubt agree, ongoing training is a constant in our world. If we don't move forward with our learning and abilities, we get left in the proverbial dust. Thus, it was with great enthusiasm that I began reviewing

VMware’s quarterly earnings and you

That frenetic time in the business circles known as "earnings season" is upon us yet again. It is a time when companies announce how they have fared during their past fiscal quarter and give estimates of how their short and long term future prospects appear. These values tend to have real impacts...

The Law of Unintended Consequences and SiteSurvey 2.0

Perhaps you have heard of "The Law of Unintended Consequences." Though it isn't an actual law of science, such as the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, it is a phenomenon that we all have no doubt experienced, sometimes daily. The Law of Unintended Consequences explains that in any...

Holiday gift ideas for VMware administrators

It's the holiday season again and last year I wrote about stocking stuffer ideas for VMware administrators, so I thought I would do the same this year. Do you need some ideas on what to get a dedicated hardworking VMware...

Giving vThanks this holiday season

With the holiday spirit of thanks and giving, I thought I would make a list of the virtualization-related things that I give thanks for, so here it is:

• I give thanks for High Availability; how many times have you saved the day by bringing my VMs back up on other hosts...

First update to vSphere released

VMware has finally released the first update to vSphere almost 6 months after the initial release of vSphere in May 2009. Version 4.0 Update 1 delivers many fixes to bugs and issues as well as support for new features, products and operating systems. Perhaps the biggest updates in this release are...

Why use vShield Zones?

VMware introduced vShield Zones as part of the vSphere release along with VMware Data Recovery as a value-added product that is available in certain editions. I'm always interested in virtualization security products so I spent a lot of time checking out the product which resulted in me writing a...

Quota limits in vSphere?

A reader was recently reading the VMware white paper  What Is New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage and he came across this paragraph:

Improved Storage Resources Control As the scope of storage...