FREE Kindle Version 4.1 HA/DRS and 5.0 Clustering Deep dive books
Today I found out that you can now get FREE (yes I said FREE) Kindle version of the popular vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS and 5.0 Clustering Deep dive books. I guess most people have already heard of Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman, but if you have been hiding in a cupboard somewhere for a number of years, these guys have written a number of books on the vSphere and provide some of the best design guidelines the world has ever seen. While the products have now been out for a while, these books are still invaluable for anyone working in an environment that still uses vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 (I know there are lots still out their). These books provide a very handy reference guide where you can quickly flick to the chapter covering the subject you need, or as I have done in the past, a very nice overall read […]
vCloud Director training – Backup Academy
Yesterday a vCloud Director training video I produced for Veeam’s Backup Academy was released. It covers VMware vCloud Director and how it fits together. This training presentation is based upon my vCloud Director 101 series of articles (found here). Veeam have a number of useful training presentations and videos on the Backup Academy site, and I highly recommend visiting to find further education material. If you haven’t heard of Backup Academy before, this is how Rick Vanover explains it: Backup Academy’s goal is to help you become a virtual machine backup expert, so you can better meet the challenges of this changing environment. Backup Academy’s educational content is brought to you by renowned virtualization industry experts. I hope you enjoy this presentation and find it useful. http://www.backupacademy.com/vmware-vcloud-director-how-it-works.html?ad=hp Lastly I would like to thank Rick Vanover from Veeam for giving me the opportunity to produce this presentation. Thanks Rick.
vExpert 2013 awardees announced
Its that time of year again, its the VMware vExpert 2013 announcements, and I am proud to say that I have been awarded the vExpert Status for 2013. This is the second year in a row that I have been awarded this status, which I find truly an honour. The VMware vExpert status brings you into quite an exclusive club. It shows to the community that you are actively involved in helping and providing information and knowledge, and available to people. Personally I work very hard to try to pass information on that I learn daily, and hopefully people enjoy reading my blog site, and find the information useful. The full list of vExpert 2013 awardees is shown below, and the original blog article can be read by clicking here. One of the best things about vExperts is the constant availability on social media. If you want to follow them […]
vCloud PowerCLI scripts
I have started to create this page to collate the number of growing vCloud PowerCLI scripts available. It is designed to make it easy for you to find the scripts you are looking for. If you have any scripts published on your blogs or know of any useful scripts, please leave a comment and I will add it to the list. vCloud PowerCLI scripts list Show-vCloudStats Timo Sugliani vCheck for vCloud Director Alan Renouf Install software in Isolated Machines Aidan Dalgleish Retrieving vCloud Director VM Hard Disk size Alan Renouf Simple VM reporting in vCloud with PowerCLI Jake Robinson Setting default VDSwitch security for vCloud with PowerCLI Jake Robinson Youtube – vCloud Director PowerCLI basic usage VMwareTV Deploying a vApp in vCD from a catalog using PowerCLI – Part Two (the lab use case) Clint Kitson PowerCLI script to list expired vApp info Kicking Waterbottles Change vCloud vApp/VM Storage Profile […]