Category Archives: General

I’m helping out some past students with a storage issue at a View implementation.  They need a question answered about moving between datastores when Tiered storage is in use.  Without Tiered storage it is fairly easy to add and remove … Continue reading →

The APAC Virtualization podcast is back for 2012.  The first session is all about the C word. Details are all on the Podcast Blog.

I am very pleased to announce that a series of VCAP Brownbag sessions is being started for the APAC region. For those who haven’t come across the ProfessionalVMware BrownBag they are a series of webinars started by Cody Bunch to … Continue reading →

Earlier I posted about the setup of my VCP5 study lab.  Today I’m going to cover the lab setup I used to study for the VCP4-DT exam. This is the Desktop certification that is all about deploying and configuring VMware … Continue reading →

Continuing with my series of articles about VMware exam study I’m going to look at what I built to study. I’ve spent a while writing about what physical and virtual hardware you can use, your existing PC, retired servers or … Continue reading →

The vExpert spotlight is an opportunity to take a step back and look at how and why you go to the point where you joined the vExpert program.  My vExpert spotlight post went up on the VMTN blog over the … Continue reading →

Last week Damion (a student on a vSphere course) mentioned an issue with the View Client.  His client is a secondary school and uses View to provide a secured desktop to students.  The View desktop is well controlled and locked … Continue reading →

If my whole datacentre runs on virtualisation, should my firewalls be Virtual Machines?  How about routers? This will be our final session for 2011, after a well earned break for Christmas we will return in late January 2012. The experiment … Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of pre-failure warnings in my ESXi servers and that’s the single biggest reason for deploying my hardware vendor’s management tools.  Since my lab currently runs on HP Proliant servers that means I want Systems Insight Manager … Continue reading →

This is my third article on building a lab to study for VCP5, the first was about using a computer you also use for other things  and hosted virtualisation, the second was about retired servers. This one is about dedicating … Continue reading →