SRM Request for Comments
Profile: Michelle Laverick
The product manager for Site Recovery Manager has a blog post – asking customers who have deployed or used SRM in the last 90-days since its release for comments and ideas. This is a great opportunity if you have used the product to have your say.
The link to Jay’s post is here:
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VMworld 2008: SearchServerVirtualization Awards
Profile: Michelle Laverick
Despite the very helpful staff at VizionCore (see pictures below), it was Cisco’s Nexus who pipped them at the post for best “New Technology”
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VMworld Keynote: Automating DR with VMware SRM12
Profile: Michelle Laverick
I missed both keynotes from the previous days. The 1st because I was busy judging the ServerSearchVirtualization Awards, and the 2nd because it started at 8am and I was still asleep! This was session delivered by SRM’s product manager. Nothing shocking to report here if you are already...
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VMworld 2008: Distributed vSwitches
Profile: Michelle Laverick
Struggling to find the real session name for this one, I left early because I spotted my pal, Charles Gautreaux leaving the hall (Charles invited me to North Carolina this year to open his VMware User Group Summit)… This session was all about the new network layer which we will see in Vi4. It...
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VMworld 2008: Book Signing
Profile: Michelle Laverick
Just come from our VMworld Book Signing at the book store. Whilst we were signing – we sold the last copy of the Vi3 book. 
One of the guys who came up also had a copy of my “Limited Edition: Authors...
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VMworld 2008: VD2422: Offline VDI
Profile: Michelle Laverick
This was a VMware presented session with VMware’s Virtual Desktop Manager 3.0 new feature of offline VDI. Now, offline VDI sounds like a contradiction in terms, but what’s meant is synchronizing your remote virtual desktop so it runs locally. You checkin and checkout your virtual machine to...
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VMworld 2008: BC2783: Virtual Business Continuity Site
Profile: Michelle Laverick
I’m mainly restricting myself to the BC Track this year – basically, because I am still fine-tuning my book on VMware’s Site Recovery Manager. So I’m always on the look out for tips, tricks, annecdotes about anything DR/BC related. This session was helpful in providing a background,...
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David Davis on running ESX inside VMware Workstation
Profile: Michelle Laverick
David Davis, my fellow blogger and judge at this years ServerSearchVirtualization.com Awards has some interesting videos about running ESX inside a VMware Workstation instance. Video link-
VMworld 2008: ServerSearchVirtualization.com Awards
Profile: Michelle Laverick
Yesterday I missed the Paul Mautriz keynote. Instead I was down on the Solutions Exchange floor doing some judging. SearchSearchVirtualization.com have awards in different catagories, and mine was “New Technologies”. My fellow judge was David Davis of Happyrouter.com. Well, was I wowed? Er, not...
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VMworld 2008: Totally VMworld Exclusive to RTFM: VMware vRainbows
Profile: Michelle Laverick
In an off the record briefing from the new CEO of VMware, RTFM education is the first blog to annouce a new inovation called VMware vRainbows. vRainbows is VMware’s take on the cloud concept. You see clouds are easy to draw on whiteboards, but they have negative connotations such a storm clouds,...
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