Monthly Archives: August 2011

VMworld Hands-on Labs going public in 2012

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Christian Mohn

VMware Labs now has fixed data centers which means that the VMworld Hands-On labs are going to be publicly available in early 20112! Hear Mornay Van Der Walt, Senior Director R&D at VMware, explain the details in this video from VMworld TV: This ...

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SCCM 2007 Not a Virtualization Candidate?

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Christian Mohn

The last couple of days I’ve been in training class, taking the 6451B Planning, Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 course. One of the first things that got mentioned, was that for larger deployments you sh...

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Poor Man’s WSUS

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Christian Mohn

Not that WSUS is expensive, after all it’s a “free” addon to the server you’re already running if you need it. Of course, running your own Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) infrastructure is preferable in just about every ...

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vSphere 5: ESXi Installation Video

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Christian Mohn

To celebrate vSphere 5 GA release today, I’ve recorded a quick video of the old school CD/ISO based installation: vSphere 5 ESXi Install Video from Christian Mohn on Vimeo. Seems strangely familiar, right? Enjoy! Christian Mohn...

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VMFS-5: Block Size Me

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Christian Mohn

The up and coming release of VMware vSphere 5 comes with an upgraded versjon of the VMware vStorage VMFS volume file system. One of the problems with VMFS-3 an earlier is that the block size you define when you format the datastore, determines the ma...

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