vNews – 25th May, 2010
Welcome to this months vNews, and what with me being holiday during this time – there is lots to report. Did the vendors know I was on my holidays – and release stuff just as I board the plane. Anyway, I’m back from Crete where I took my break – whilst I was there I took out the time walk/hike the Somaria Gorge, which is allegedly the longest gorge in Europe. Somewhere between 16-18km in length – you drop a couple of 1,000m within the first couple of kilometres. So it was it was down hill all the way you say – easy-peasy. Not so my friend. I almost lost both toenails from each of me feets! So this vNews is well earned chance to rest my butt and those toes nails – and work my through all the blogposts and announcements their virtualicentric. I had nearly 300 unread posts in my feed-burner – so it tooks some whittling away to get to this content. Enjoy!
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In this months vNews I cover:
IDC Report into the growth of virtualization
The New VMware Certified Advanced Professional tracks
The Alleged End of VMware Server
Change Block Tracking Backup Bug (Plantvm.net)
VMware VUM and HP SIM Woes (vinternals)
VMware ESX Security Hardening Guide
New NFS Best Practices White Paper from VMware
Troubleshooting VMware Snapshots Whitepaper
Top 10 Free vSphere/ESX Utilities (kendrickcolman.com)
Microsoft Dynamic Memory Primers (Part 1 of 5)
Microsoft Virtualization Profitability Toolkit (Partners Only)
Best Practise Analyser for App-V
Best Practise Analyser for Hyper-V R2
Citrix Client Hypervisor – XenClient
Burton Group – Compare of XenDesktop vs View
EMC vPlex – Long Distance VMotion
New EMC/vCenter Storage Plug-ins
NetApp DeDupe Calculations (boche.net)
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