Most folks think that because they have access to more than one cloud in vCloud Express, or any other cloud provider for that matter, you automatically get disaster recovery. In doing past articles on how to transform your blog into a vCloud Express based setup on Bitnami, I discovered a few things …
Read More »[INFO] Voting is Open for Top 25 vBlogs
In case you haven’t heard the voting is now open for the 2012 Top 25 vBlogs at vSphere Land. This list year over year is the go to listing of the best virtualization bloggers around. When I logged in to vote I was excited to see my own name listed! …
Read More »[UPDATED] Partner Exchange 2012 Catalog with Dates Annouced
The Catalog for partner exchange 2012 has been released for you to view! I will be there along with the following list of heavy hitters presenting for the week on various topics we hope will interest all of you. Here is my session I will be presenting based on some past articles and …
Read More »Gotcha: Cannot Reset a vShield Edge in vCloud Director
Well kids, this one came full circle after a week of beating my head to a bloody pulp on the desk. During some vCloud Director testing with David Hill and Duncan Epping, we ran into a snag whereby we could not seem to reset the vShield Edge Device. Now, I …
Read More »[INFO] Linux VMware Tools Install Changes to Upstart
This is another short post to let you all know myself and Jeremy Sage from VMware GSS found an interesting thing with VMware tools on newer versions of Linux. I found this as I have been using the new CentOS 6.2 Minimal ISO for a lot of my new builds. That will …
Read More »How To Convert From vCloud Linked Clones
This is just a really quick note to let folks know that yesterday on my Virtacore vCloud Express I happened to determine that the Organization vDC I was in was running Fast Provisioning. Not hard to tell when things are deployed very fast actually. I inquired and because I was an early Beta tester …
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