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Voting for the 2013 top VMware & virtualization blogs

21 February 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesEric Siebert (from Sphere-Land.com) ha open again, like one year ago, a content for voting the ‘Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs’. As he points out in his post, there are now over 200 blogs dedicated to VMware and Virtualization – this is definitely an impressive number which is a real indication to how passionate people feel towards the VMware range of products and virtualization in general. The voting runs 1st March with only one round of voting being allowed per IP address – so those of you using a corporate Internet connection, get in early. […]

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Top paying IT Certifications for 2013

4 February 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesGlobalKnowledge as realize a new list of top paying certification (see 15 Top Paying Certifications for 2013 and also Top paying IT Certifications for 2012 for previous year). Unfortunately, as written in the post, certain certifications (that pay more) are not represented due to their exclusive nature. These include CCIE: Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert and VCDX: VMware Certified Design Expert, and mainly all the Top IT Certifications.

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VMware PEX 2013: Why attend

29 January 2013
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Partner Exchange is a big event, like VMworld, but dedicated to the VMware partners (like the international Microsoft WPC or other similar events). This year will be held at Las Vegas from 25 to 28 February.

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PCoIP vs. RDP

25 January 2013
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a VMware View environment usually PCoIP protocol is preferred to the RDP one due to several reasons. I don’t want to spend too much time about the latency, throughput, reactivity, user experience different between those two protocols… in most cases PCoIP is better compared to RDP. But PCoIP protocol has some limits that your have to consider in your design and mainly are described in the View Architecture Planning guide.

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Recovering a lost partition table with a VMFS datastore

16 January 2013
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are different reason where you can you loose or corrupt your partition table of your VMFS volumes: resignature from another system (for example the backup server, if connected in SAN mode), a human mistake (datastore / delete), or maybe some storage issues. In this case usually the VMFS partition is still there and also the related data: you have “only” to rebuild the right partition table. But this could really simple if you follow the recommended practice to have only one VMFS partition on each disk. In this case you have only to build […]

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How to add ESXi custom drivers using an USB key

15 January 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs written in the previous post, one common issue with recent servers of new generations is that maybe the NIC drivers are not included in the standard ESXi ISO. An if you use the vendor (or a personal) customized ISO, could be possible that during a patch update or a version upgrade you loose the drivers and the system is no working anymore. In those cases you may have an ESXi that complete his bootstrap, but without any network connectivity is not usable and could be hard to fix the missing drivers because VUM and […]

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Manage an “isolated” Windows Server

11 January 2013
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere could some cases where you may have some Windows (Server) completely isolated from the Internet, for example in some appliances or storage solution. One interesting aspect that learn on Windows products during a DataCore training was that in this case you can have some delay in the user interface, both on the DataCore GUI, but also on the Windows one.

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