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The Power Of Visual Thinking?
If you look at how our brains are wired, an enormous amount of capacity is dedicated to visual processing: recognition, pattern detection, etc. While everyone's preferred thinking modes may differ,...
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EMC and Capgemini Launch Case-as-a-Service Solution to Transform Case Management
Fully-Managed Service, Built on EMC Documentum xCP, Can reduce Costs and Time to Delivery by Up to 30
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VMFS File Sharing Limits increased to 32
I was reading this white paper about VMware View 5.1 and VMFS File Locking today. It mentions the 8 host cluster limitation for VMware View with regards to linked clones and points to VMFS file...
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A Unique Charity
If you're a long-time reader of this blog, you'll realize that -- not once -- have I ever made a charitable appeal here. My reasoning was simple: as there are so many deserving charitable efforts out...
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How do I configure an HA vpxd.das advanced setting?
On the community forums someone asked a question around how to set “config.vpxd.das.electionWaitTimeSec”. I was looking at the documentation and it is indeed not really clear on what / where / how to...
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Resizing an IDE virtual disk, part two
A long time ago I wrote this article about resizing an IDE virtual disk. I just ran out of diskspace on my Windows 7 VM and I needed to increase the disk. Unfortunately the Windows 7 VM had and IDE...
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EMC Technology Directions
These days, EMC has meaningful investments in a increasingly wide range of technology areas, far beyond our original enterprise storage roots: virtualization, security, big data analytics,...
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vSphere HA compatibility list, how do I check it?
Someone reported issues that in their environment VMs could not be restarted as there were no compatible hosts available. The relevant part of the error message was: N3Vim5Fault16NoCompatibleHostE I...
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Gartner Talks Future IT Scenarios
This week, Gartner held its Symposium/ITxpo in Barcelona, Spain. Given that -- here in New England -- we were treated to three inches of fresh snow and howling winds, I certainly felt a pang of regret...
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Finally, Another Interesting Take On A Global File System
Stop me if you've heard this before -- wouldn't it be great if we could make all of our local file servers around the globe act like a single giant intelligent file server? I can count at least a...
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Baby, what time is it? The importance of time with VMware SSO
For the past week or so, in my copious spare time, I’ve been re-building my vLab at work. It’s a cobbled together menagerie of hardware that makes me wish I had a healthier budget so I could spend...
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From SQL to SharePoint
This past week we just finished attending and supporting Microsoft SQL PASS Summit, the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals. SQL PASS was a big success with over 5000 attendees and there was...
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Working with CA signed certificates in your vSphere environment?
Are you working with CA signed certificates in your vSphere environment? You might want to check out these recently published KB articles. They will definitely help understanding the whole process...
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Bandwidth requirements for long distance vMotion
I received a question a while back about the bandwidth requirements for long distance vMotion, aka live migration across distance. I was digging through some of the KBs around stretched clusters and...
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VXLAN basics and use cases (when / when not to use it)
I have been getting so many hits on my blog for VXLAN I figured it was time to expand a bit on what I have written about so far. My first blog post was about Configuring VXLAN, the steps required to...
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VMFS File Sharing Limits increased to 32
I was reading this white paper about VMware View 5.1 and VMFS File Locking today. It mentions the 8 host cluster limitation for VMware View with regards to linked clones and points to VMFS file...
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How do I configure an HA vpxd.das advanced setting?
On the community forums someone asked a question around how to set “config.vpxd.das.electionWaitTimeSec”. I was looking at the documentation and it is indeed not really clear on what / where / how to...
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Resizing an IDE virtual disk, part two
A long time ago I wrote this article about resizing an IDE virtual disk. I just ran out of diskspace on my Windows 7 VM and I needed to increase the disk. Unfortunately the Windows 7 VM had and IDE...
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vSphere HA compatibility list, how do I check it?
Someone reported issues that in their environment VMs could not be restarted as there were no compatible hosts available. The relevant part of the error message was: N3Vim5Fault16NoCompatibleHostE I...
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Warning: Latest OS X updates causes issues with Fusion 5.0.x!
On the VMware VMTN Forums it is reported that VMware Fusion 5.0.x in combination with the latest OS X updates (MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0) causes virtual machines to crash. This is...
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