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Announcing Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Well, the title kind of says it all—yes, there will be an update to the popular Mastering VMware vSphere 5 book, with new content for the vSphere 5.5 release announced today at VMworld. Availability o...
VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote 26 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote for VMworld 2013. Depending on network connectivity, this might not get published until after the keynote is finished. The keynote starts, as usual, with a snaz...
Learning NVP, Part 4: Adding Hypervisors to NVP 22 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
This is part 4 of the Learning NVP blog series. Just to quickly recap what’s happened so far, in part 1 I provided the high-level architecture of NVP and discussed the role of the components in broad ...
Accessing VNC Consoles of KVM Guests via SSH 22 Aug 2013 | 09:38 am
About a year ago, I published an entry on working with KVM guests, in which I described how to perform some common operations with KVM-based guest VMs (or guest domains). While reading that article to...
State of Dev/Test Infrastructure Survey 21 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
While I was in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Navin Thadani and Shruti Bhat of Ravello Systems. Ravello, as you may already know (see this overview...
Learning NVP, Part 3: NVP Manager 19 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
Welcome to part 3 of the Learning NVP blog series. In part 1, I provide an overview of the high-level architecture of NVP and discussed the role of the components in broad terms. In part 2, I focused ...
Learning NVP, Part 2: NVP Controllers 16 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Welcome to part 2 of the Learning NVP blog series. In part 1 of the series, I provided a high-level overview of the NVP architecture and components. In this post, I’ll dive into a bit more detail on o...
Using Your Home DNS Servers with Corporate VPNs 14 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Among IT pros, it’s quite common these days to have a home lab/home network complete with DNS, DHCP, hypervisors, storage, etc. As IT pros, it’s also quite common to have to use a virtual private netw...
Introduction to Networking: Part 1, The Basics 12 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
This is the kick-off to a series of posts introducing networking concepts to VMware administrators. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten in speaking to VMware admins, networking is an area in which a lot...
A Short Dry Spell 7 Aug 2013 | 10:42 am
It’s been a couple of weeks since I published anything here, so I wanted to just provide a brief update. I know that posting something about why I haven’t posted something is…odd, I guess you could sa...
