Author: Eiad Al-Aqqad

  • My London 2011 VMUG Experience

    Today, I have been lucky to get the chance to attend the London 2011 VMUG. It has been arranged by a great team of VMware enthusiasts (Martyn Storey, Mark Stockham, Alan Renouf, Scott Vessey, Gabrie van Zanten, Simon Long, Chris Dearden). The arrangement was great & I would say over 100 people were in the…

  • Adding tape Library/Drive to VM running over ESX/ESXi 4.

    I have been asked lately if NPIV could be used to attach a tape library to a VM, & as attaching tape libraries to a VM has never been well documented. I have decided to write a small post about it. I don’t want to be a smart A**, but I will start by asking…

  • How to enable VMotion if you have bought vSphere Essential Plus 4.0

    As many of you know VMware has included VMotion in vSphere Essential Plus 4.1, where it was not included in vSphere Essential Plus 4.0 I have been getting the question lately, how do I obtain VMotion in this case if I have a valid support. Do I have to upgrade or change my license? The…

  • VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing FAQs

    Lately many questions about VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing has been raising up specially ones related to VMware vSphere Essential, vSphere Essential Plus, and other acceleration kits. Getting answer to these were always a hassle to find till I found this magical document with answers to many of these. You can find the document  at:…

  • VMware View 4.5 Location Based Printing

    I believe one of the greatest addition to VMware View 4.5 is Location Based Printing. I have the question just popping up right and left lately (3 customers just this week), on how to get VMware View users to print to their nearest printers when they are using virtual desktops. In physical environment this was…

  • VMware KB Mobile App for Android & iPhone is VMware November Gift!!

    VMware has just releases a new Official VMware KB Mobile App for Android & iPhone to keep VMware customers up to date on new KBs, news & so on all the time. VMware KB app gives you the ability to: Search the Knowledgebase Read the Support Insider blog for important updates Catch our twitter feed…

  • VMware vSphere Essentials Kit & Essentials Plus Kit upgrade path

    I can see the above title bringing a lot of our competitors to read my blog for the next few days. I know many of them are already monitoring it daily, & as many of them still believe that there is still no upgrade path from our vSphere Essentials Kit & vSphere Essentials plus Kit…

  • VMware View 4.5 in large VDI implementation over 2,000 Virtual Desktop Tips

    I have just been assigned to assist one of our partners design a VDI environment using VMware View 4.5 with 5000+ Virtual Desktop. At this number of desktops every small bit has to be counted for while putting the design out. Some of the info required for the design was not ready in my mind…

  • My first week as a System Engineer at VMware

    For those who know me closely have already heard the news, for those who did not then yes I have just started to carry the VMware badge beginning of this month. Hmmm, I have started holding the VMware badge virtually I guess as I have not been handed that yet, but I have started as…

  • VMware vSphere 4.1 Standard License to Include VMotion

    Although this news has been released for over a month now, I believe it was not pushed hard enough. Now its the time for it to make it to my blog. After reading this post, cheaper can no more be an execuse to not choose VMware the leading Virtualization product for your datacenter. Its no…

  • KFH is another VMware great success story in EMEA

    I can hear many people wonder what makes me write about KFH (Kuwait Finance House) virtualization story. Further, why now although I had conducted virtualization projects in there over the past three years. The idea has actually crossed my mind only after one of my colleagues passed by me today in office & mentioned that…

  • VMware ESX is End of Life, in the future only VMware ESXi will exist

    Going through VMworld 2010 video, I was not too surprised of getting the news that VMware ESX will be discontinued & only VMware ESXi will exist forward. Actually it seemed a news that had been circulating for a while, but finally its official now. Watch the below VMworld video from VMworld TV which clearly state…

  • VMworld vExperts Discount is no where!!

    I know VMware has never promised vExperts any discounts to VMworld, but I was giving it a thought. How much of a good publicity can vExperts make of the VMworld event. Would not vExperts contribution to the VMware community be worth giving them a discount to VMworld. I mean Microsoft has been giving their MVPs…

  • You do not appear to have a valid CD-ROM device. If this is a CD-ROM device try enabling legacy emulation mode

    I have got one of my customers today complaining that she can not access her laptop CD-ROM inside her virtual machine & that she keeps getting the following error: “You do not appear to have a valid CD-ROM device. If this is a CD-ROM device, try enabling legacy emulation mode” The easy solution for this…

  • My VMworld Awards Critique

    First lets start by answering “Do I agree with the VMworld 2010 Awards winners?”. My answer to the previous question to the most part I agree with most of the winners, though I believe the judging process might need a bit of improvement. I have just came across Eric Siebert, which discuss the judging process…