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Zombie VM interview just before Hallowe’en
First of all I would like to say Happy Hallowe’en to everyone. I thought you might want to check how bad Zombie VMs can be to your Virtual Infrastructure. The below interview of a Zombie VM is quite interesting & funny specially just in time for Hallowe’en. Enjoy the video below: Another Zombie VMs Video,…
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VMware VMotion Improvement in VMware vSphere 5
As most bloggers when vSphere 5 arrived decided to cover the improvement on VMware HA, as it was totally revamped. I have decided to cover up the improvement on VMware VMotion in vSphere 5. VMware VMotion had as much improvement in vSphere 5 as VMware HA had, but seems to be forgotten by most bloggers.…
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My Canadian move and job shift
If you have been following my blog for a while, you would have noticed a non normal pause in the past 2 months with no new articles on my blog. The reason behind this gap is my move from Dubai to Canada and all what that bring with it from finding a place to stay,…
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VMware APPBlaster to change the Operating System game
If you have not heard of VMware APPBlaster yet, then its worth noting it is a technology that will enable users to access any application on any operating system as long they have a browser that support HTML 5. The usages of this technology will be limitless. Imagine running MS Visio 2010 on MAC or…
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Who’s Really Stuck in the IT Past? VMware vs Microsoft?
I have been enjoying my weekend, when a tweet popped on my Twitter that pointed out to Paul Rubens article titled: “Microsoft or VMware — Who’s Really Stuck in the IT Past?“ which was a respond by Paul on a video released earlier by Microsoft “Don’t get stuck in the IT Past” which can be found at:…
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VMware Transformation from Virtualization Company to an Overall Solutions Company
Nonetheless the diversity of Solutions VMware is delivering today, many people still know VMware as a Virtualization Company. The efforts and solutions released by VMware over the past 2 years outside of the virtualization Arena has been as huge as the one to keep the lead of the Virtualization Solutions. Its no longer true that…
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vSphere 5 is now available for download
With all the enhancements and new features were announced with vSphere 5, many of you waiting patiently for vSphere 5 to be available for download. The good news that the long waited vSphere 5 has been announced available for download yesterday. You can download the vSphere 5 installers at: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0 vSphere 5 has a tons…
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VMware vSphere 5 vRAM Licensing Amendment
In reaction to the huge demand of VMware customers after the announcement of the new vSphere 5 vRAM licensing Schema, VMware has announced the changes of its vRAM entitlements & few other licensing items to respond to customers demands. In this article, I will be covering just that. Its important to note, I am a…
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Grant User Access to vCenter CapacityIQ
As lately I have been testing several of our Enterprise Management Solutions, & I have been sharing them more often with our customers. After the announcement of vRAM, vCenter CapacityIQ is one of the products that seems to grab attention quickly. After delivering several POCs to customers, most of them have came back to me…
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Capacity Management in a Virtualized Private Cloud
Capacity Management importance has been on the rise since Virtualization started becoming a main stream. In earlier days in the physical world, Capacity Planning/Management used to end at the time the hardware was purchased. In most cases, the hardware was over-sized to ensure it can handle the workload as well future growth of the application. Though as…
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VMware vCenter Operations
Most organization today has different complains about their current performance monitoring tools. These problems are put under the magnifier when Virtualization or Private Cloud is implemented. Below are few of the main complains getting heard & VMware is trying to respond to by vCenter Operations Manager: Our Performance Management/Monitoring tools report too many metrics that is hard…
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VMware View 4.6 Windows 7 Quick Prep fail where it work for Windows XP
One of the most asked questions lately by partners and customers when it come to VMware View 4.6 Implementation (I believe its applicable for older versions of View as well) is that when creating a Windows 7 Desktop Pools that utilize Linked Clones & try to utilize Quick Prep the deployment of desktop fails at…
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7 reasons why VMware vSphere 5 vRAM Licensing is not as bad as it Look at First Glance
Note: VMware vSphere 5 vRAM has dramatically been amended since the original announcement. For more info about what was amended then please check my following article: vSphere 5 vRam Licensing Amendment. Further, this article has been updated accordingly. While others have decided to cover up all the nice features that is coming up with vSphere 5…
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VMware View Client for Android Tablets is here
For all of those Android Tablets fans who had a VMware View environment and wanted to connect to, but had no official VMware View Client that support Android this post is carrying out the good news to you. Now VMware has officially released a VMware View Client for Android Tablets, which finally will give us the same…
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My Response to 15 Ways to Tell its not Cloud Computing
In the past two years, every vendor has packaged its offering with the word Cloud or Cloud Computing in it. I don’t blame them being the buzzword of this decade, though that create a hell of confusion to customers. In many cases that confusion was even against the vendor it self. I mean if you…