Category Archives: General

APAC Virtualization Roundtable (New VMware Management Stack – vCM & vADM) – Wed 28/7

This week’s APAC Virtualization Roundtable features Duncan Cambridge, Senior Enterprise Management Solutions Specialist at VMware, and Darren Byrnes, director at Synergistex. Together, the team will cover two products of the recently announced VMware vCenter Product Family that were incorporated to … Continue reading

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APAC Virtualization Roundtable (Chinwag with Mike Laverick) – Wed 14/7

This week APAC Virtualization Roundtable features Mike Laverick (@Mike_Laverick). Mike is a book writer, interviewer, blogger, VMware & Citrix trainer, virtualization evangelist. His most recent book Administrating VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is available on PDF from lulu.com and his … Continue reading

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Hypervisor on my laptop (Mobile ESXi lab)

It’s possible to build a basic View 4.0 environment using VMs under VMware Workstation and a lot of people have already discussed the use of VMware Workstation or Player to run ESX in a VM.  I wasn’t happy with either … Continue reading

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My upcoming schedule

Due to a number of people asking about my upcoming schedule of courses or availability for consulting engagements I have setup a page listing my current commitments.  It is currently showing the next four months, after that I don’t have … Continue reading

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Follow-up – APAC Virtualisation Roundtable Podcast Number 15 – PowerShell

A great show thansk to my awesome guests,    Alan Renouf  (@AlanRenouf)     Luc Dekens  (@lucd22)  and   Hal Rottenberg @Halr9000 Lots of links to good places after the break, thanks to Greg Mulholland (@g_mulholland) for providing them in the chat during the … Continue reading

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APAC Virtualization Roundtable (PowerShell with Alan Renoulf and Friends) – Wed 2/6

This week I (@demitassenz) will be hosting the APAC Virtualisation Roundtable Podcast (should we call it the AVRP?)  Joining me will be a panel of PowerShell specialists, including Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf), Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Luc Dekens (@LucD22).

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vCentre services crashes when adding a host

Following on from my disaster with returning a failed disk to the SATA RAID in my lab ESXi hosts (“Mark Online” may cause corruption, should have chosen “Rebuild Disk”), I had the above issue with my vCentre server and reconnecting … Continue reading

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APAC Virtualisation Roundtable (Backup, Replication & etc with Veeam) – Wed 26/5

In this week’s podcast, if talkshoe.com allow us,  Andre (@andreleibovici) will host Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug), Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) and Alex Hooper (@vmhooper) from Veeam Software. “Here it goes nothing!”… Veeam is a VMware partner and has produced a number of … Continue reading

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Why users don’t want a client hypervisor (warning, opinion inside)

At Citrix Synergy last week Citrix talked up their client hypervisor and even released XenClient for you to test.  Rumour has it that the next version of VMware View missed a ship date to wait for VMware’s client hypervisor (I … Continue reading

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APAC Virtualisation Roundtable (VDI with Citrix XenDesktop) – Wed 5/5

I will be hosting this week and my spcial guest will be Chris Lockery from Citrix, we will be discussing VDI with Citrix XenDesktop and the wider Citrix product suite.

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