Chad Sakak has been cajoled into releasing the EMC Celerra SImulator.

ICT Freak have posted about how to use a connection to the VirtualCenter SQL Server database from Excel to display useful VMotion information.

Check out article here.

Rich Bramley has written a very good article about VMFS storage performance advisories.

I know what it’s like trying to make sure that my customer’s network admin guys happy when implementing Virtual Infrastructure.

Cisco & VMware have collaborated on a fantastic document that really gives some great pointers covering:

• vLAN Tagging
• NIC Teaming
• vSwitch Scalability
• Layer 2 Security Features

Used in conjunction with the Virtual Networking Concepts document it makes for compelling reading for network admins prior to any serious discussions about VMware and its impact on networking infrastructure.