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VMware MENA available positions!!
It has been posted by Hany Michael that VMware is currently looking to expand their MENA team with talented people. It seems VMware is finally gathering their troops in the MENA and ready to hit the market with new innovate vCloud products. If you think you are interested & got the talent you might want…
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VMworld 2010 Awards Winners
First of all I would like to congrats all the VMworld 2010 Awards Winners. You have really worked so hard for it & you definitely deserve it. Before sharing the winners list I thought I will share a good funny story I had yesterday. Two hours before declaring the winners I have got an e-mail…
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Where will IBM fans stay at VMworld?
Shortly after posting my last post “Where will Apple Lover stay in VMworld?” I had a funny feed back of one of the apple fans as he knew I am a quite IBM fan. He told me did you know here will IBM Fans stay at VMworld check below to find out: Where will IBM…
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Where will Apple Lover stay in VMworld?
Don’t get me wrong. I really love Apple & VMware, though I have received this in my e-mail few days back and thought its kinda funny and decided to share it. Where will Apple Lovers stay in VMworld? . . . . . Guess ???? . . . . Keep looking further down . .…
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Veeam to add a Free Advanced Capacity Planning Pack to Veeam Reporter
Veeams to add a new free Capacity planning functions to their Veeam Reporter at no additional cost. Below is Veeam announcement in this matter: Veeam Reporter has always provided valuable data for capacity planning. With the new Capacity Planning Report Pack, it also does forecasting and modeling for you. By knowing in advance when additional…
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Win a trip to VMwolrd Europe 2010
This year Zenoss are offering a chance to win a trip to VMworld Europe 2010. Zenoss will not only offer a VMworld Europe 2010 pass for the winner, but they are including Airplane Tickets and accommodation. All you have to do to win is to try their product. Below is thier campaign announcement: Test drive…
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Microsoft will not showcase Hyper-V at VMworld
For the second year, Microsoft will not bring their Hyper-V to VMworld as per reuters.com. The fun part behind it Microsoft claim that VMware does not allow competing products to be shown in VMworld, where VMware deny that. To make the argument more fun, Citrix will be presenting their Xen Desktop in VMworld which compete…
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vSphere Client Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.
Today I have installed VMware ESXi on our Lab blades. While trying to connect to my ESXi 4 server using a vSphere client newly installed on Windows XP SP3 I had been hit by the below two errors: Error parsing the server “server ip” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator. and after…
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Veeam Reporter Could not create Windows user token from the credentials specified in the config file. Error from the operating system ‘Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
Today, I had a call from one of my enterprise customers complaining that he cannot log into Veeam reporter WebAccess Portal. The main error he was getting is: “Parser Error Message: Could not create Windows user token from the credentials specified in the config file. Error from the operating system ‘Logon failure: unknown user name…
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VMware Design Exam Experience & Study Materials
I have taken my VMware Design Exam few days back, which I almost missed as my hotel totally forgot about my wake up call & my mobile (which I use as my alarm) ran out of battery. After taking the exam, I can not agree anymore with others who took the exam, its more of…
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VKernel news items in association with upcoming Chargeback 2.0 release.
The VKernel Team has just sent me the below news items in regards of their upcoming chargeback 2.0 release & thought I will share it with all of you. Thanks Tina Dussault for the update. 1. This release extends Chargeback support to both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX environments while also adding support for mixed chargeback…
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Don’t use VMware Raw Device Mapping (RDM) for performance, but ..
Till today everywhere I looked recommended using RDM over VMFS for performance (when a higher I/O is required), though today while studying for my VMware Design Exam I have got my hand on the “Performance Characterization of VMFS and RDM Using a SAN” document by VMware. The interesting executive summary of the document is copied up…
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VCDX – VMware Enterprise Administration Exam NPIV Chapter
I have earlier mentioned on my blog that I will publish my study guide for VMware Enterprise Administration Exam, but as I have been preparing for my design exam & killed with projects at work. I really had no time to put it all online. Further, it seems these exams are expiring soon. For that…
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VMware ESX & ESXi Connections & ports
While preparing for my VMware Design Exam, I have stumbled upon this great pdf that document VMware ESX & ESXi connections & ports in details. It even cover the connections & ports for VMware additional components like VMware Update Manager & vCenter Converter. Although many documents do the same, what got my attention is all this…
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VMware VCDX Enterprise Administration Exam & my tough luck
I have scheduled my VMware VCDX Enterprise Administration Exam on the 1st of June 2010. I was planning to take 10 days off work before the exam for preparation, but I got stuck at a large project which has minimized my study time including travel to 5 days. As I am currently based in Kuwait, the closest location…