Category Archives: General

I’ve been playing with View 4 and a Windows 7 non-persistent desktop pool for the last month (between a lot of other things).  Combined with roaming profiles and user folder redirection it seems to be a good solution for users … Continue reading →

I have just had the pleasure of attending the third live session of the APAC Virtualization Roundtable Podcast, hosted by Andre Leibovici.  This is modelled after the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast hosted by John Troyer, it is run on Wednesday … Continue reading →

For all the students to whom I have taught vSphere courses and who haven’t yet taken the VCP 4 exam. If you enter the voucher code VMTQ270A0468 when you register for the VCP410 exam you will receive a 10% discount.  … Continue reading →

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I’ve been playing with running ESXi as a guest on ESXi, mostly so I could test SRM v4.0 before teaching the 1.0 course. As you may know ESX 4.0 can run another ESX 4.0 host as a VM.   The physical … Continue reading →

I finally sat the VCP410 exam this week, it took all day as I had to drive 200km each way to a testing centre.  The local one where I did the VCP2 & VCP3 exams doesn’t do Pearson VUE exams … Continue reading →

Now that Windows 7 has been released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers we’d better be able to use the vSphere client on Windows 7. With a default install the vSphere client complains about a config.xml file issue. As usual the … Continue reading →

I had an excellent course in Melbourne last week, not many students but all good people. One student was a VMware staff member in the consulting team here in Australia, despite being in more of a management role there was … Continue reading →

Yesterday was VMware’s major 2008 partner event for Australia, around five hundred people attended.  The event started with the usual keynote material, marketing and “hooray for you and me” kind of stuff.  What was great was to have Paul Maritz … Continue reading →