VMware’s Horizon Application Manager 1.5 provides IT administrators with a way to give end users a sort of company app store that allows single sign on for many applications. The solution delivers applications to your end users’ devices using ThinApps. To read more click here.
VMware has worked on improving its native backup over the past couple of years. VMware now has vSphere Data Protection (VDP), which is very similar to EMC Avamar Virtual Edition. VDP includes both image level and file level recovery. These are several of the features included with VDP as noted in the Administration Guide (PDF): To read more click here.
Last week I attended the 10th annual VMworld, the mantra of the week was “Defy Convention.” I thought I’d compile some of my takeaways to compliment David’s VMworld day one and day two wrap-up posts. To read more click here.
This fact sheet will be continually updated with new information about VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). Please check back often to see any updates or changes. The vCHS offers public cloud capabilities directly from VMware. For more information, please check out this video on vCHS presented by VMware’s Jenny Fong. To read more click here.
A guest post from Liselotte Foverskov: Lauren, first of all thanks for giving me the opportunity to be featured on the Adapting IT Blog. Yesterday I attended my first Women of Purpose event. Thank you to Kristin Heisner for arranging this for all of us busy women. Let me start by saying this was a…
Believe it or not, there are still applications that require the use of a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) if you’re going to virtualize the machine it runs on. Recently I encountered a situation where the hard disk was already formatted as a Virtual Machine Disk format (VMDK) on a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore in VMware. In a…
I spend a lot of time doing storage migrations to new storage arrays because the company I work for sells storage arrays. It’s actually not too difficult, and sometimes you can even do it without downtime. To read more click here.
PernixData will be announcing the first release of its Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) product on August 6, 2013. The company says FVP is the first and only hypervisor for server-side flash. Although other vendors have similar server-side flash solutions, FVP is the only solution that is currently able to create a clustered tier that allows VMware administrators to…
I haven’t been reading very many books lately. Most of my training has been coming from videos, documentation, blogs, and, of course, podcasts. In almost every podcast I’ve listened to in the past couple months the book ThePhoenix Project, by Gene Kim, has come up at least once. I decided to put it on my Kindle…
Every time I go to install VMware on a Cisco UCS C-Series server, I seem to forget something or come across a new caveat. If this sounds familiar, read these tech tips for configuring UCS with VMware vSphere. To read more click here.