When vSphere was released in 2009 one of the new features included in it was the concept of Host Profiles. Recently I have done some additional readings on this feature in regard to where it can help admins as well as benefits and limitations. What a Host Profile provides is a method a define a […]
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Archive | June, 2011
Citrix Named Top Silicon Valley WorkSpace
June 29, 2011 
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In an employee based survey of the San Francisco Bay area employees Citrix was ranked # 2 and has been named one of the Top Employee WorkPlaces of Silicon Valley. The survey was conducted by an independent research company, WorkPlace Dynamics and more than 1370 companies with more the 50 employees were invited to participate. Citrix […]
Read moreBook Recommendation – VMware vSphere Design
June 24, 2011 1 Comment
I just finished a good vSphere book that I wanted to share and recommend. It is called : VMware vSphere Design by Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe and Maish Saidel-Keesing, published by Wiley Publishing of Sybex in 2011. The main focus of the book is to focus on a new vSphere implementation project. It goes through all of […]
Read moreChanging Root Passwords on Linux Servers (physical or virtual)
June 23, 2011 2 Comments
A situation you don’t want to be in as a admin is having a server and you don’t know the root or administrator password. This is a method for resolving that issue for Linux servers and the process is the same whether it is a physical server or a virtual machine. Of course I would always recommend a virtual […]
Read moreDesktop Virtualization Market to grow to 5 Billion by 2016 (ABI Research)
June 22, 2011 0 Comments
I came across this blog post on vmblog.com (thanks for all the great posts) and thought is was a significant study to mention. vmblog.com post It is referring to a study done by ABI research on the projected growth of the Virtual Desktop industry to 5 Billion dollars by the year 2016. This is significant growth for […]
Read moreOracle Releases Latest Update to Oracle VM Server 2.2 (2.2.2)
June 22, 2011 0 Comments
On June 20th Oracle announced the latest update to its hypervisor solution, Oracle VM with its version 2.2.2. Oracle Virtualization Blog Site Announcement Some of the features include: Expand the guest OS support to include Oracle Linux 6.x and Oracle Solaris 11 Express OS. For a complete list of guest OS support, please refer to the […]
Read morevSphere Block Sizes
June 21, 2011 2 Comments
One of the issues I have come across with vSphere users is related to their VMFS block sizes and the implications of the various choices. The block size chosen determines how large a file can be written to the file system. In this case since we are talking about vSphere and VMFS file systems it would be […]
Read moreWhitePaper – A Guide to Hyper-V Dynamic Memory
June 20, 2011 0 Comments
I came across this whitepaper from virtualization.info ( thanks guys for all the great posts ) and I wanted to share it here. It is a paper by Aidan Finn, a Microsoft MVP on Hyper-V Dynamic Memory. Each of rhe various hypervisors handle memory management in different ways, which is why I was interesting in […]
Read moreXen 4.1.1 Maintenance Release Available
June 17, 2011 0 Comments
The Xen.org community as recently made available the 4.1.1 Maintenance Release. Xen.org develops the Xen hypervisor under the General Public License (GPL) as an opernsource hypervisor offering. Xen 4.1.1 is a maintenance release in the 4.1 series and contains: Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 and CVE-2011-1898 Enhancements to guest introspection (VM single stepping support for very […]
Read moreVMware announced vFabric 5 – Integrated Application Platform for Virtual and Cloud Environments
June 15, 2011 0 Comments
On June 14th Vmware announced the upcoming release of vFabric 5 which will be available late in the summer of 2011 and will be offered in two version (Standard and Advanced). vFabric is an integrated platform for virtual and cloud applications. One of the key additions in this release is a flexible packaging and licensing model […]
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