Author: Eiad Al-Aqqad

  • vShield Zone – vShield App – vShield Edge – vShield EndPoint Required vSphere version

    Lately vShield seems to gain much popularity due to all the security benefits it offer in a virtual environment. Further, the security concern of merging 10s and (maybe 100s in the near future) of VMs on the same host seems just to push the demand for similar security capabilities in the Enterprise.  It seems there is…

  • My honest review of @DuncanYB & @FrankDenneman vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive Book

    I have order the “vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive” by @DuncanYB most famous by 007 & @FrankDenneman about 3 months back on Amazon. I received the book about one month after ordering due to the distance the book had to travel I guess, although I paid for shipping more than I paid for…

  • vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition is the recommended edition for vCloud Director

    I have been lately seeing many tenders in my region that include vCloud Director, but the funny part most of them were purposing vSphere Enterprise Edition. This has alarmed me as I always go back to our partners and ensure they are aware of the features they will lose in vCloud Director when using it…

  • Free Transition to ESXi essential training

    As many organization today are in the process for moving from VMware ESX to to ESXi, it has been important to VMware to educate its partners & customers of the process and difference.  For that VMware is offering a free web training “Free Transition to ESXi essential training” to everyone who want to learn more about ESXi.…

  • Enabling Long Distance Live Migration with F5 and VMware vMotion

    As more and more companies offer different way of doing cloud computing, the concept it self is getting fuzzier to the consumer. Further, after VMware has prompted the idea of Hybrid Cloud Computing, many other companies have copied the road map as usual and started to talk about it as being the first to promote…

  • One of the largest Public cloud services (Amazon EC2) experienced an outage that took down hundreds of businesses

    Are you a user of Quora, FourSquare or Reddit? If so then you might have already experienced the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud service failure. Being a user of two of the above services FourSquare & Reddit I can tell you they were affected on the April 21st, 2011  for over 20 hours for sure. Ok,…

  • VMware vExpert 2011 Program is now open even for VMware Employees

    For all of you vExperts out there I am sure you have already received an e-mail from John Troyer informing you to fill the forum for VMware vExpert 2011. The nomination/registration process for the VMware vExpert 2011 program has already started, & the last day for registration will be: May 6th, 2011. If you have been a vExpert…

  • VMware Compatibility Guide 2.0 Preview is now available

    While VMware Compatibility Guide has always been quite helpful in finding the compatibility between different part of the virtual infrastructure. Vmware are currently working on releasing a next generation of the tool which can provide more details and better search options. You can start utilizing the tool by trying it out in beta at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/search.php Enjoy the…

  • The correct legal way to write about VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platform

    During my blogging for the past 3 years, I have never been contacted about using the wrong upper & lower case incorrectly in the product name. Though the VCE VblockTM Infrastructure Platform was the exception. Two days ago, I have put a simple post about VCE Vblock Platform at http://www.vblocksolutions.com/2011/04/20/the-misleading-reality-behind-vce-vblock/ I have done a small…

  • My Take of infoworld.com Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware

    Infoworld has published a quite interesting comparison between Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, & VMware at Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware. Its quite detailed and the methodologies and comparison basis was documented clearly which make it worth going through. Although I agree with the comparison to a great degree I still had few comments to post…

  • My Own low cost Lab VMware ESX White Box Specs

    I know many of you out there want to practice on many VMware products specially vSphere & would like to build your own lab but without breaking the bank. I have been able to build my own Home Lab for less than $600 buying the parts in Kuwait, which probably end up even cheaper on…

  • My VCAP-DCD Journey & Tips

    My last 10 days were a trip to ….. I had been contacted by our certifications team and been informed that the dead line for the VCDX4 defense held in UK in may is March 21st. That e-mail just had started an alarm in my head as only 10 days was left, as I was…

  • vCenter to Manager Hyper-V is a reality

    Working for VMware has always been filled with surprises since the first day I joined. I really believe we have one of the greatest engineering departments out there. I mean when your engineering team create a plugin that allow vCenter to Manager Hyper-V in their own spare time, it just get you really proud to…

  • vCloud Director & vShield Edge / App / End Point Compatibility.

    I am still no vCloud expert at the moment, although I am learning my way through. This post will not cover how to carry out the installation of vShield or vCloud Director. I am just planning to bring the message of these products being compatible together. if what you are looking for is the instruction…

  • vSphere 4.1 Update 1 has been released.

    vSphere 4.1 Update 1 has been released on Feb 10th. Below is what’s included in this update: VMware ESX/ESXi Enhancements: Support for up to 160 logical processors Inclusion of additional drivers (ESX 4.1 Update 1 includes the 3ware SCSI 2.26.08.036vm40 and Neterion vxge 2.0.28.21239-p3.0.1.2 drivers, which were provided as a separate download in earlier releases.)…