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Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation!

My, my I am excited.  I know that I do get excited about virtualisation related stuff regularly, but the same can certainly not be said about backup technology.  I have made an exception to my no excitement about backup rule after attending the hands-on lab for vCenter Data Recovery, outstanding!!
The best things often are the [...]

Okay, so I’m at the back of the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumiére along with all the other bloggers.  Richard really has put us in a great spot, to report on proceedings.
First up, Maurizio Carli, Head of EMEA, he kicks off with pointing out that last years VMworld attendance was 4500 and this year, despite the [...]

Okay, so I arrived in Nice at 15:30 and was met by a team of VMware dudes in bright red fleece jackets pointing me to the shuttle buses to take us into Cannes.  The bus already seems pretty full so god only knows what it is going to be like by tomorrow evening.
The weather is [...]

I’ve been using the ESX Deployment Appliance for a while now and really, really love it.  One thing that I have had to do though is to change the regional settings and keyboard settings to be UK based instead of US based for the deployed ESX installations.
It’s not difficult to do so here’s how:
Log [...]

I have recently installed a pilot of VMware View at a customer and found some great articles and posts before the install.  One of the best for introductory information was over at brianmadden.com and written by Roland van der Kruk, check out all three parts here:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
If you want to find out more [...]

I have been using Linux exclusively as my main operating system for a good while now and have gathered a few useful links over the past few months, I thought I’d collate them into a single post.  This post is as much to ensure that I don’t forget what and where the tools are, but [...]