Raspbian-based SD card image released

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For those who have an UBER cool Raspberry Pi, The makers released their first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution. This is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by Alex and Dom over the past couple of months, and replaces the existing Debian squeeze image as our recommended install. Notably, it is the first official image to take full advantage of the Raspberry Pi’s floating point hardware for, amongst other things, much faster web browsing. Users who are still using … [Read more...]

VMware Fling: View Controlled Recompose Script

This script performs a Controlled Recompose of a VMware View Linked Clone Pool of Virtual Desktops. It first identifies a free desktop and recomposes it to create the first Replica Desktop. Download the script Features All features supported by the scripts are controlled by script parameters. See Instructions for information about the parameters. … [Read more...]

VMware Launched vCloud Certification: VCPVCD511

Some individuals are about to be invited to participate in a new beta certification program launched by VMware. The rumor goes that the public exam should be live late July. The VCPVCD511 VMware Certified Professional 5 – Infrastructure as a Service beta exam tests potential VCP5-IaaS candidates on their skills and abilities installing, configuring and administering a vCloud environment. Successful candidates demonstrate mastery of these skills and abilities. The VCPVCD511 beta exam consists … [Read more...]

VMware View Persona Management

I stumbled upon a great post from Simon Long: View Persona Management is NOW (with View 5.1) also supported on physical computers Persona Management, previously called RTO Virtual Profiles. A sleeping giant in my eyes. It's soo simple to install and configure but can offer you riches beyond your wildest dreams. OK, maybe a little over the top, but it is a really cool product and very underrated. … [Read more...]

New website design

I worked all day in finetuning my new blog design. Please leave a comment if you like the new layout, or if you have any suggestions! … [Read more...]

Microsoft approach to cloud computing

Microsoft new approach to cloud computing … [Read more...]

VMware Certification Announces Upgrade Path from VCDX4 to VCDX5

Following the release of the VCAP5-DCD Beta exam results, the VMware Certification Team is pleased to announce the upgrade path from VCDX4 to VCDX5. Current VCDX4 holders in good standing will be able to upgrade their certification to VCDX5 by successfully passing the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5- Datacenter Design (VDCD510) exam. The VCAP5-DCD exam release date will be announced in May. Release of the VCAP5-DCD final exam blueprint will occur at that time. All VCDX4-holders … [Read more...]

Login VSI enhanced with Client Side Performance Testing

Login Consultants today announced the new Client Side Performance Testing module for Login VSI, the industry standard benchmarking tool for SBC and VDI environments. This new module allows performance testers to objectively measure and analyze the performance of remoting protocols such as VMware PCoIP, Citrix ICA/HDX, Microsoft RDP, Quest EOP and others. The existing test suite Login VSI 3.5 provides valuable information about the maximum number of sessions that can be handled by the servers in … [Read more...]

VMware SRM 5.0 GA

VMware is excited and very pleased to announce that vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 has shipped and is now generally available for download. What's New in SRM 5.0? vSphere Replication Built-in, simple and cost-efficient VM replication across vSphere clusters and sites, as an alternative as well as complementary to array-based replication. More specifically, this includes ESXi host-based (asynchronous) block-level replication at per-VM granularity with RPO (recovery point … [Read more...]

VMware Command-Line Interface commands

The Windows command-line interface provided for managing ESX/ESXi systems is an invaluable tool for managing ESX infrastructure at the command-line. When using ESXi without a service console the CLI becomes even more useful. ESXi 4.0 RCLI: … [Read more...]