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Which user do I need to use to connect an Identity Source to SSO?
If you already installed vCenter 5.1, and configured an Identity Source, you may have ran into this situation. In some cases, in a hurry, you just go there and provide your user/pass credentials to...
View ArticleVMworld Online Subscription Winners
In the past week, 14 users have won VMworld Online Subscriptions by being active users on CloudCred. These subscriptions, a $600 value, give you online access to both VMworld US 2012 and VMworld Europe...
View Articleexcited for at IBM Edge
IBM IBM IBM, Well all of us knows that IBM is one of the biggest computer industry in world. In their new technology their introduce new cloud system that have new features and i excited about that.i...
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Citrix Synergy
I like to see what are new features they gonna implement in their XenServer and Xenapp, and are they gonna pass VMware in any word or not.if you like to see whats happened at Citrix Synergy you can go...
View ArticleLog Analysis: ESXi 4.1 Host not responding due to APD
- We notice the ‘rport’ messages are only observed when an array controller port times out, not when it is visible again. The message of “blocked FC remote port time out” literally translates to the...
View ArticleCloudCred Contest: Win an Xbox: See Why It's the Only Microsoft Product Worth...
This week, we want to spread the word about the advantages of VMware’s vSphere over Microsoft’s Hyper-V. vSphere is preferable to Hyper-V because it is more modern and built to last throughout the...
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VMware Converter error: Unable to obtain hardware information for the...
Scenario: VMware Converter 5.0 Standalone; Windows 2003 Server physical machine; When trying to convert the machine, the error "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected...
View ArticleSTL VMUG June 26th - Canceled.
Yeah, sorry to say - first time that I can remember having to cancel a meeting since I've been running it. Long story that I won't bore you with but we decided we would rather have you...
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Announcing the 2013 vExperts!
The 2013 vExperts have been announced! This year, a record 581 vExperts were named. 444 of the 581 were previously named as vExperts as well. See the list of 2013 vExperts and some information about...
View ArticleBest Practices VMware SRM
SynopsisWe have faced lot of issues while performing failover (Test/Actual) due to timeouts and others. We have now standardize the configuration.Below mentioned are the values we configure it to avoid...
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Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Installation & Configuration
PRE-REQUISITES2 VMs with Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise2 NICs on each VMs (1 for Public and 1 for Private)4 IP Address for Public Range2 IP Address for Private Range2 Shared Disks (1 for Failover Cluster...
View ArticleDistributed IT, Centralized / De-Centralized? – Get the best of both
As highlighted in the recent report from the INI Group, Analysis of IT at the Retail Store, it is clear that enterprise IT are primarily taking 1 of 2 paths in the development of their distributed IT...
View ArticleGetting the Name of the Snapshot Creator - Using the vSphere Task API
I have seen a lot of people asking how they can get the username for the user who originally created a snapshot, This is not data that is available in an obvious way from vSphere either through the...
View ArticleVMware Newsletter 5.20
From the editors Virtual DeskHi everyone, this week we have a really interesting featured article on security which is something I think that has been at the top of many CEO and corporations minds...
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vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.6 - Architecture
I start to use VMware workstation since 2002 or earlier, my bad memory can’t recall it. That’s 1st generation of virtualization. If you look at today’s virtual world, we are on the way to “Matrix”! J...
View ArticleVideos comparing vSphere and Hyper-V
There are some interesting videos available at Vimeo. These compare various aspects of the VMware vSphere platform vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V. Based on these videos, it appears that VMware has the lead on...
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