by Rawlinson | Oct 27, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, News, Virtualization, VMware
Earlier this year I got a chance to team up with some of my colleagues and deliver a couple of presentations for VMworld 2012 in San Francisco and Barcelona. Two of those sessions were nominated VMworld 2012 Top 10 Most Popular Sessions. One of those session was...
by Rawlinson | Oct 24, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, Security, Virtualization, VMware
Recently one of my previous customer asked me for tips on how to systematically control remote session timeouts to ESXi hosts. The context was around standardizing console sessions timeout across multiple ESXi hosts across an enterprise. This is a common requirement...
by Rawlinson | Oct 18, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
Prior to the release of the vCloud Suite and vCloud Director 5.1, the discussions for architecting cloud as it relates to vCloud Director and storage offerings were based around tiered models focused on performance and capacity. The access to tiered offerings was...
by Rawlinson | Oct 15, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Security, Virtualization, VMware
While at VMworld 2012 in Barcelona last week, I had the opportunity to participate in several conversations with customer discussing many topics and concerns regarding the vSphere 5.1 platform, and one of them was the forever important topic of Security. While there...
by Rawlinson | Oct 13, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, Virtualization, VMware
The initial release of Auto Deploy in vSphere 5.0 was focused and limited to stateless provisioning use cases. Now, in vSphere 5.1 Auto Deploy has been updated to support Stateful and an enhanced version of Stateless provisioning called Stateless Caching. Auto Deploy...
by Rawlinson | Oct 4, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, News, Virtualization, VMware
Ohhhh Yeaahhh!!! Cinco cerbezas por favor! the wrecking crew (@DuncanYB @FrankDenneman @lamw @alanrenouf @VMwareStorage @PunchingClouds) is back at it again folks. We will all be in Barcelona for VMworld 2012 bringing you some of the top 10 sessions from VMworld 2012...
