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Well today is the start of Day Two of VMworld and its the first chance I have gotten to grab a few minutes and write some thoughts on the first day.  For me this is my 6th VMworld and I think my 5th as a speaker.  You tend to lose …

Over the weekend I was working on another project and decided to document quickly the issue I was having with the Longtail Video JWPlayer 6 WordPress plugin.  There was about two days of troubleshooting for me to finally figure out the proper shortcode syntax to use with the newest version …

It’s taken me a bit of time to get to this third post, but with VMworld looming less than a week away, needless to say it’s been a little busy.  The purpose of this post is to simply explain some advanced options in using vCloud Connector and Stretch Deploy to …

Recently I was told by someone who while they considered themselves as one of the “Have Nots”, I was living the good life as one of the “Haves”.  I was up part of the night thinking about this and it did not make sense to me.  We are all faced …

I have learned that my previous two posts were very helpful, but I made some assumptions in them that people knew what was needed in place to make it all work.  That being said I wanted to run through a quick guide to what is needed and how things are …

I wanted to post something quickly about the sessions I am currently speaking at this year for VMworld in San Francisco.  I’m excited to be in all these, but I will say with the new role it will be a VERY busy week for me.  I hope to see may …

Part 2 of this series on how to set up vSphere Stretch Deploy with vCloud Air will deal specifically with the requirements and workings of the vShield Edge Gateway component in the local vSphere infrastructure.  The reason I think this aspect is important is that from my experience most vSphere …

Now that I got my lab re-configured for just vSphere 5.1 only I wanted to simulate not only the use case for Stretch Deploy into vCloud Air, but specifically doing so when you only have a vSphere infrastructure.  Doing so has some different nuances you will need to consider that …