The most significant part of VMware PEX, for me this year, was the Solutions Exchange floor and the rather small number of vendors. My focus was on convergence of compute and storage resources. This appears to be a popular path. There were a few things along the way, other than cheap swag, that caught my eye. […]

One of the things that some of the Microsoft Hyper-V users tout is that Hyper-V is free. Sometimes, like in smaller offices or branch locations, it may even make sense to use Hyper-V where there are four or less VMs on a host. The Windows 2008 Server Enterprise Edition license will allow for the base Hyper-V […]

I received an invitation to take the VCAP5-DCD BETA Exam a couple of weeks ago and took the exam at Partner Exchange. Like Jason Boche’s experience, the exam consisted of 131 questions and I was given 225 minutes to complete. The experience was similar to my VCAP4-DCD experience over a year ago. What You Need to Know Like before, I […]

I have been attending various VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) and VMworld events since around 1996. Typically, I prefer to attend PEX over VMworld. The number of attendees is significantly smaller and access to the VMware brain trust is easier. There is usually a good mix of NDA roadmaps and decent technical information. The Solutions Exchange […]

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of returning to the customer that was the subject of my VCDX Design Defense. First, let’s travel back into time. It was mid-December, 2008. I was a VMware Delivery Engineer for my company at the time. The customer engagement was a VMware Plan and Design delivery. I […]

I received an invitation to take the VCAP5-DCD BETA Exam a couple of weeks ago and took the exam at Partner Exchange. Like Jason Boche’s experience, the exam consisted of 131 questions and I was given 225 Minutes to complete. The experience was similar to my VCAP4-DCD experience over a year ago. What You Need to Know Like before, I […]

I’ve been meaning to write this post since May 2010! Never got around to it but I am starting to see and hear about it again. The costs of Windows Server systems become important if you are renewing licenses or you are in a consolidation project. I find that many businesses will purchase server hardware […]

Interesting that I stumbled on this right after I posted a How-To for the free vSphere Hypervisor. Mike Adams over at VMware wants to know if you are using the free vSphere Hypervisor. If so, he would like you to complete a very short survey so he can understand how you are using it. Check […]

NOTE: This is no longer required in vCD 5.1 & above! This is one of those situations where I really start to hate computers!  I was working with vCloud Director with a goal of having a winders VM run through guest customization, change the name, get a fixed IP from the network pool, join an […]