Archive for the ‘Gabes Virtual World’ Category

Memory management and compression in vSphere 4.1

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

With vSphere 4.1, VMware released a great new feature called Memory compression. At first, after reading the release notes I thought memory compression was just one step before swapping to disk would... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Setting logfile location, swap file, SNMP and vmkcore partition in ESXi

Monday, July 26th, 2010

With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...

VMware vSphere 4.1 released – What’s new?

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

As many of you expected, the new VMware vSphere version is called VMware vSphere 4.1. The hints have been clear these past few weeks and today it became official. Today was the official release and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and ...

First vSphere Plugin for WordPress! by Nicholas Weaver

Monday, July 12th, 2010

On my blog, on the right hand, the last widget on the page is called “Home Lab” and shows the current state of my ESX lab at home. This WordPress plugin is written by Nicholas Weaver. Its... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...

[RUMOR] VMware to buy Novell?

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

This week I’ve had some questions from people on how this “Strategic Partnership” between Novell and VMware, could be the first step to VMware buying Novell or a number of products from Novell. This... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...

Must have apps for the iPad

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

You probably wonder what has gotten in to me, iPad postings have nothing to do with virtualization. Yes you’re right, but lately I see so many tweets of people in the virtualization community... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Interview with Matt McSpirit – Partner technology advisor at Microsoft UK

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Matt McSpirit is a Partner technology Advisor, who works with Microsoft Partners in the UK, enabling them to build practices around Microsoft Virtualization and Management Technologies.  Matt’s role... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

How to supply resources for Citrix XenApp on VMware?

Monday, June 21st, 2010

I bet many of you that are virtualizing Citrix XenApp, have read the Project VRC whitepapers and want to implement their best practices. Especially in small environments however, it can be a headache... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

VMware Data Recovery 1.2 released

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Because of the news of the release of update 2 for VMware ESX 4.0, you may have missed the news about the release of VMware Data Recovery 1.2 on June 10th. The vDR team announceses it with great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

Awarded VMware vExpert 2010

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Friday night I was very pleased to find an e-mail from John Troyer in my mailbox, starting with “I am pleased to announce that you have been designated as a VMware vExpert 2010 and I invite you to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...