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Presenting at LISA’12 December 9th – 14th

By on September 17, 2012 in General

I will be presenting at LISA 2012 conference this year in San Diego alongside John Arrasjid, Ben Lin and Mahesh Rajani. The two sessions I will be involved in will cover vCAT 3.0 topics, and a separate session on vCloud BCDR. The LISA (Large Installation System Administration) Conference will run from 9th until 14th December.  An overview of the LISA conference is listed below from there website Highlights of LISA ’12 include: 47 half- and full-day training sessions from the industry’s top instructors, including: John Arrasjid, David Hill, Ben Lin, and Mahesh Rajani on Virtualization with VMware Nan Liu on Puppet Shumon Huque on Using and Migrating to IPv6 A technical program that offers practical information on a variety of key topics, including: Vint Cerf’s Keynote Address on “The Internet of Things and Sensors and Actuators!” Invited Talks such as Geoff Halprin’s Closing on “15 Years of DevOps” and Selena […]

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VIDEO: Upgrade to ESXi 5.0 using Update Manager

By on July 12, 2012 in General

While upgrading two of my ESXi hosts today I found this really helpful howto video on the VMware KB website.  It shows you a step by step walkthrough of how to upgrade your ESXi 4.1 host to ESXi 5.0. There is a lot more information on different ways to upgrade to ESXi 5.0 in this VMware KB.

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Raspberry Pi running VMware View client

By on July 4, 2012 in General, VMware Posts

This is pretty cool. Looking through the internet at stuff I can do with my Raspberry Pi (apart from running RISC OS natively) I was interested to see if anyone had begun running a VMware View client on it. The Raspberry PI costs £25 so makes a perfect Thin Client. The video below shows the Pi running the View client nicely. All credits go to the author (not sure of his name) you can visit his blogsite here. He needs help working on thin clients for the Raspberry Pi if anyone has some free time. Further information on the Raspberry Pi can be found here:

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VMworld 2012 – Session accepted

By on July 3, 2012 in Cloud Computing, General

Another year another VMworld. It is a crazy ride working for VMware. I have just returned from PTO to the news that one of my sessions has been accepted. AWESOME news. This is a similar session to the one Duncan Epping and I presented at PEX. Session: VSP1168 – Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure Presenters: David Hill, Chris Colotti, and Aidan Dalgleish Abstract: This session will discuss the various design considerations when architecting the foundation for every solid cloud environment: vSphere 5.0. We will start with sizing and scaling and end with some operational guidance. Different examples will be used to show the impact design considerations can have on the availability of your services. I hope to see you all there, it will be another awesome week.  I will write a follow up article on the sessions I think are must see from a vCloud perspective.

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