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VMware Partner Exchange
Feb 13th
I had the opportunity to attend Partner Exchange, PEX for short, this past week. Overall, I have to say I was quite pleased with the sessions this year. Normally, I tend to find most sessions a bit light on the technical part and far to heavy on the marketing fluff. To my surprise, I was shocked that virtually every session was very technical and the speakers could go very deep.
Being that I dabble a lot in programming, and I work for an ISV, I have to say Carter Shanklin’s session “Getting Stoned with Project Onyx” was simple amazing. I’d heard More >
Work in Progress – Part 2
Jan 10th
I’ve made the switch to WordPress for my blog, and over the next week or so I will be updating the theme a bit as well as content. Please let me know what you think!
Thomas
vFoglight Virtualized – Part 2
Oct 8th
Continuing from the last post, we are now going to explore installing vFoglight 5.2.6 into a VM and start pointing vCenters at it.
For the purpose of the test I’m using the following configurations to start and we will grow it as we add more vCenters and thus more VMs or as performance dictates.
vFoglight VM OS – Windows 2003 R2 x86_64 vCPUs – 2 Memory – 2G Hard Drives – 3 VMDKs on Raid Group 2 (only VMDKs on the Datastore) 10G C:\ (OS Partition – 64k aligned) 5G D:\ (Swap Partition 4G Fixed size – 64k aligned) 30G F:\ (Application More >
vFoglight Virtualized – Part 1
Sep 18th
I’ve had a lot of virtualization customers ask me, both large and small, if Vizioncore’s vFoglight will run in a VM or as a virtual appliance. My reaction, of course, is it will run just like on a physical host. vFoglight has always been supported running in a VM by Vizioncore. Like any application you virtualize, there are things you can do to ensure proper performance and more importantly get the most out of the environment.
Let’s look at the different parts of vFoglight and talk about each one. There are three components that can be installed together or installed separately. More >
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