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Is Cloud Computing Really New? Where did it come from? These are questions that are often unanswered or not covered in all of the buzz that companies like Google , VMware , and Microsoft are putting out there around the Cloud. Let's step back and look at where the Cloud actually came from. In the...
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With Yesterday's announcement of the launch of VMware GO, VMware has finally entered the Hosted (Cloud/Web) Application market. Providing services to small and medium businesses to more easily manage their ESXi implementations. On the management side, VMware GO provides a guided installation, ESXi...
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Cloud Computing is an often cited and very confusing term in the market today. To try and clear things up a bit, I'm going to try and define and explain Cloud Computing from several angles. To do this, first I will define Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is defined as the use of compute resources...
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I was having a whole series of odd behaviors on my Macbook Pro yesterday. These included: PKG and MPKG files running through installation and then failing at the "Complete/Finish" Screen Eclipse Ganymede and Galileo both having problems rendering WSDL files under JVM 6 (32 or 64bit) but working...
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I benchmarked the performance of three Java toolkits for working with VMware Infrastructure and vSphere: VI (vSphere) Java, the VI SDK for Java, and the vSphere SDK. You can read more at http://vijmark.sourceforge.net/ . (Hint – VI (vSphere) Java wins)
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This video will show you how to leverage Hyper9 to identify all of the virtual machines in your environment that have media attached to them. VMs that have media connected to them can cause problems since it can prevent a VMotion from occuring, and it can also cause problems with VMware DRS and DPM....
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One of the advantages of Hyper9 is that we go out to all of your VirtualCenters and to all of your VMs to collect information. Using Hyper9, you can get a better handle on your VMware snapshots, and at the same time, get a better handle on controlling your VM Sprawl. Using the Hyper9 facet feature, you...
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Just a quick note, I updated the GuessMyOS plug-in so that it now supports styling Sun Solaris guest operating systems. You can download the latest version here .
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First of all, how cool is it that these guys are paying me to essentially work on the same stuff I used to do for fun? Many thanks to the fine folks at Hyper9 for funding my exploration of the VMware code base. I couldn't ask for a better group of fellows and fellowettes to work with! Down the Rabbit...
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Better Late Than Never Dang the inter webs are fast! Before I was able to get a blog post up describing the new plug-in and how to use it, the Twitter world was already alive with news of my latest creation. I suppose I should be flattered, but I do like to stay ahead of things with all the right documentation...
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I know most of you reading this are probably all too familiar with VMworld here in the states. But have you been or paid any attention to VMworld Europe taking place in Cannes, France? I was lucky enough to attend last year, along with nearly 4,500 other folks. The show had a slightly different feel...
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VMware's CTO, Dr. Stephen Herrod, recently contributed a piece for VMBlog.com that describes VMware's vision of the top 10 trends in virtualization as we head into 2009. Herrod describes how many organizations started out on their virtualization journey with server consolidation to immediately...