Monthly Archives: July 2011

Dear John

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Christian Mohn

No, this is not a farewell post, but rather the opposite. It’s Dr John Troyer’s birthday! John lives and breathes his role, as Senior Social Media Strategist at VMware, and I have to say that one of the most brilliant moves VMware has don...

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SMB Shared Storage Smackdown – Part 1 NFS Performance

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Ed Czerwin

Recently at the office I was given the task to test out some SMB NAS products to use as potential candidates for some of our small branch offices all over the world.  I did many tests relating from backup and replication to actually running VMs on ...

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vSphere 5 and new licensing – Good or bad?

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Ed Czerwin

As many of you did I watched todays Cloud Infrastructure Forum and the release of vSphere 5 today.  I was very excited with many of the features such as Storage Profiling, Storage DRS, VMFS 5 release, and they have blown the top off of the resource ...

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Online Event: Raising the Bar, Part V

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Christian Mohn

July 12, 2011 9am-Noon Pacific Time: Join this online event, and get all the details on “the next generation of cloud infrastructure”! VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will be presenting on the next generation of cloud infrastr...

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Setting Up Automated ESXi Deployments

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Christian Mohn

Automating ESXi installs was made much easier after the release of vSphere 4.1 where the Scripted Install feature was added, and by using VMware Auto Deploy from VMware Labs. VMware Auto Deploy requires that you have vCenter and Host Profiles in your...

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Exchange 2010 SP1 and KB2393802 or How to Have an Interesting Afternoon at the Office

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Ed Czerwin

Let me start this post out with a little story. I am normally a hardcore virtualization and storage guy. Sometimes my career in this sector brings me into working with stuff I haven’t worked with before because virtualization encompasses so muc...

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vExpert 2011

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Christian Mohn

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