VCDX Brown Bag

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

For those of you wondering as to when the second installment of the VCDX Brownbag series is, all I can say Cody and I have not forgotten you   The seas of change surround us regarding the presentation of BrownBag so please be patient and await a signficant anouncement,  ...

TrainSignal release a new Training video.

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Train Signal, who produced the popular ‘VMware vSphere’ and ‘Hyper-V’ training videos have just released a new addition to the VMware vSphere suite of training products called ‘VMware vSphere Pro Series Vol. 1’.As the ‘Pro’ in the name implies this course offers a deeper view of three popular products in ...

Book Review – VMware vSphere Implementation: Mike Laverick

Monday, February 8th, 2010

In the forward to this book I wrote: “Mike’s conversation writing style brings VMware vSphere 4 Implementation to life.  His skills gained as a VMware trainer show in his ability to break down complex theories and procedures into bite-size easily digestible portions.  Whether you are an absolute beginner with virtualization or ...

The First Brown Bag VCDX Session is locked and loaded

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Following up on the interest from our last post, Cody Bunch and I will be running the first of what should become a series of VCDX Enterprise Admin Brown Bag sessions. The topic this week will be the CLI. So all the good things like the ESXCFG c0mmands and useful Linux ...

I am getting to play with App-V a little bit more. Part 3

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

In parts one and two we concentrated on the Server side of the deployment, now it is time to configure the client. Now I have installed a default installation of Windows Vista under Workstation and joined it to the PVM.internal domain. All that we need to do here is install the client ...

The date is set for the next Northern VMUG

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Right you north of England based Virtualisation fanciers listen up, the date of the next Northern VMUG has been set for Tuesday the 13th April  at the Round Foundry in Leeds. Now this is a short walk from the Leeds train station,and also has good local parking. further to this there ...

I am getting to play with App-V a little bit more. Part 2

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

In the first post in this series we installed and configured the management server and a dummy AD and DNS environment, there was an aside on Certificate services too, this time we will start to configure the Client/ Server communications.  so without further ado lets get started. Now the way to ...

I am getting to play with App-V a little bit more. Part 1

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I am getting to play with App-V a little bit more so I decided that it was a good idea to build a test lab, well resources are short I currently have no 64 bit hardware capable of running vSphere in my lab, so I have had to resort to ...

Configuring Certificate Services on Windows 2008

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

This post was going to be part of my post on how to build a App-V demo lab in Workstation, However as it is a bit long . I decided to split it into its own separate post. Now in my demo environment I needed to utilise secure channels for App-V ...

VMware Security Advisory – Advisory ID: VMSA-2009-0016.2

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Second of the day Synopsis:          VMware vCenter and ESX update release and vMA patch release address multiple security issues in third party components. Issue date:        2010-01-29 Updated on:        2009-11-20 (initial release of advisory) CVE numbers: — JRE — CVE-2009-1093 CVE-2009-1094 CVE-2009-1095 CVE-2009-1096 CVE-2009-1097 CVE-2009-1098 CVE-2009-1099 CVE-2009-1100 CVE-2009-1101 CVE-2009-1102 CVE-2009-1103 CVE-2009-1104 CVE-2009-1105 CVE-2009-1106 CVE-2009-1107 CVE-2009-2625 CVE-2009-2670 CVE-2009-2671 ...