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However, it’s easier said than done. It would be nice to have a - [The VMware 100](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1946) - I have been accepted into an exclusive club in the VMware community named "VMware Influencer 100 Club" . Nice words from VMware state that I had been identified as one of the most powerful voices in the VMware community. I say that is 20 years in the making! 20 years and still working with Vmware - [SysAdmin Horror Stories – FREE eBook](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1943) - Last year’s ebook, SysAdmin Horror Stories Vol1 by Altaro, highlighted some of SysAdmins’ funniest and most horrifying stories. It proved so successful, that Altaro decided to produce a second edition this year: they’ve gathered some more real-life stories to share with you, that are both funny and horrific! We all know that a SysAdmin’s job - [Backup Product Review](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1931) - 5 years ago, I was asked to review a beta of a backup product called Altaro. 5 years on, I'm reviewing the product to see how far it has come along. The first step is to download a copy of the software from Altaro.com, which was painless, and I went for the 30-day full trial. - [Installing ESXi 7 on a Intel NUC 10](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1920) - With all my other hobbies like 3D printing, micro-controllers, and DJ-ing I'm quickly running out of space at home. My kids insist that the house not be used as a man cave, so I've ended up with numerous sheds in the garden. I have a beefy lab with four servers totaling 320GB of RAM and - [The Backup Bible](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1915) - As the old adage goes: fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It’s the perfect description for backup, yet to this day so many companies don’t have an adequate backup & disaster strategy in place for when the worst-case scenario happens. Just how well are you protecting your vital data? The Backup Bible, a - [From IT to PPE](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1912) - Well Friends you may have noticed that I went quiet over the last few months. There is a great reason for that. At the beginning of the Corona outbreak in the UK I turned my attentions to making PPE Face Shields for Nurses, Doctors and Care-workers. Please watch my video story about the whole experience. - [Critical Security Features in Office/Microsoft 365 Admins Simply Can't Ignore](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1908) - According to reports, since COVID-19 forced millions to work remotely, hackers have been taking this opportunity to exploit new vulnerabilities that have arisen. If your business uses Microsoft 365 or Office 365 to support remote workers, you need to be sure your security is as strong as it can be to avoid becoming another statistic - [World Backup Day](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1904) - We all remember how grateful we were to have backup software when facing so many data loss mishaps and near-catastrophes. If you manage your company's Office 365 data, celebrate this World Backup Day with Altaro. All you have to do is sign up for a 30-day free trial of Altaro Office 365 Backup. If you - [Microsoft Azure Certifications Explained - A Deep Dive for IT Professionals in 2020](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1897) - It’s common knowledge, or at least should be, that certifications are the most effective way for IT professionals to climb the career ladder and it’s only getting more important in an increasingly competitive professional marketplace. Similarly, cloud-based technologies are experiencing unparalleled growth and the demand for IT professionals with qualifications in this sector are - [Xmas Pressies!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1891) - This Holiday Season, Altaro is helping you out with your Holiday Shopping: they’re giving you the chance to WIN fantastic gifts that you can give to your loved ones! It’s no secret that Holiday shopping can be stressful and very time-consuming. So this year, whether you need a present for your partner, your children, - [SysAdmin Horror Stories – FREE eBook](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1885) - With Halloween only a few days away, this year Altaro gathered SysAdmins’ funniest and most horrifying stories into one eBook, especially for you. We all know that a SysAdmin’s job is no easy task and apart from constantly having systems to update, bugs to fix and users to please, SysAdmins encounter all sorts of situations - [Zerto 7.5 is alive!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1882) - So Zerto 7.5 went GA. Some major enhancements went in that version. Zerto 7.5 Highlights: Cloud Agility - NEW Deeper integration with Microsoft Azure, focused on enhancing performance, scale, ease of use and flexibility for cloud workloads. Enhanced Security - Zerto joins the VMware vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO) program enabling support for highly - [Terraform for Hybrid Cloud: AWS & VMware Webinar](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1874) - Turbonomic have a webinar on Wednesday 31st at 4pm BST: Terraform for Hybrid Cloud: AWS & VMware Join Turbonomic Technologists, Eric Wright and Jacob Ben-David, as we explore how to make the most out of an Infrastructure-as-Code approach using Terraform and hear real customer experiences that will speed up your DevOps journey. Click Here to - [Python: list clusters, hosts and VMs](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1869) - Just following on from my previous article (HERE) on using Python Pyvmomi SDK wrapper for the vSphere Web Services API this time I show you how to iterate through the Web Services API tree. In numerous posts and VMUG sessions, I have given dating back to 2007 I have discussed that the objects in vSphere - [Azure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1865) - Security is a major concern for IT admins and if you’re responsible for important workloads hosted in Azure, you need to know your security is as tight as possible. In this free webinar, presented by Thomas Maurer, Senior Cloud Advocate on the Microsoft Azure Engineering Team, and Microsoft MVP Andy Syrewicze, you will learn how - [Intro Kubernetes](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1863) - Turbonomics is running a webinar for anyone interested in finding out about K8S (Kubernetes) . The Webinar is titled: Introduction to Kubernetes for Multicloud Scale. What to except from the session: - What is Kubernetes- Why Leading Organizations are Adopting it- Key Problems Solved with Kubernetes- Enterprise-ready Kubernetes-as-a-Service Offerings Hey billy bonus if you register - [Python and VMware SDK](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1846) - Learn how to automate VMWare with Python using the Pyvmomi wrapper. - [Celebrate World Backup Every Day and WIN the CONTEST!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1825) - World Backup Day is something we’re used to mark as an event every year, as a reminder we need to take good care of our data. But this year Altaro challenges us to change our mindsets and start considering the value of a good backup solution not just once, but every day. On this occasion, - [Zerto is back in my family!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1819) - I'm happy to say Zerto back in the VirtualizePlanet family as a sponsor. I've always seen as Zerto as the standard for DRaaS but with certian advancements you could say they are much more than DRaaS nowadays. Zerto has three cornerstones to give your business resiliency. Continuous availability gives you an ‘always-on’ experience Workload mobility - [Free Virtual Machine Backup and chance to win gift card](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1813) - Take a 20 second survey about Vembu's free edition backup and be with a chance to win a $20 amazon gift card. - [Rejuvenate your old ReadyNAS Ultra with a new makeover!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1781) - Make your ReadyNAS ultra look and feel like a Synology DSM - [Data Privacy Day - lets party!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1803) - Short article on Data Privacy Day. - [New Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1794) - About eG Innovations eG Innovations is an industry-leader in IT performance monitoring and analytics solutions. eG Innovations’ solutions are intended to help IT professionals diagnose and troubleshoot IT problems – downtime, outages, slow applications, resource bottlenecks, config changes, and so on. Incorporating pre-built correlative intelligence, machine learning and root cause analytics technology, eG Innovations’ solutions - [UK National VMUG Conference 2018 - Automation](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1770) - My VMUG Session on all things automation at the UK VMware User Group Conference. - [VMworld 2018 Day 1 - Cohesity Blogger Session](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1758) - On the first night of VMworld EU 2018, I attended a blogger reception for Cohesity organised by Patrick Rednap. I was trying to cadge a VIP ticket to the vRockstar party that evening. While there I met the who’s who in the blogger community, most people I knew for a long time. But presenting was - [Vembu BDR Suite 4 - new features coming](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1751) - Just a little note about the new features of Vembu 4.0 coming soon. Vembu has put some serious cycles into adding a ton of new features into their product. Some new features include Hyper-V cluster backup in which Vembu support backing up the VMs in the cluster and even if VMs configured for backup - [Move to High Availability with Hyper-V](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1726) - Check out this webinar about HA in Hyper-V Here’s what you can expect: What is HA and why do you need it? High Availability with Hyper-V Hyper-V Failover Cluster VM Replication Sneak peek of Vembu BDR Suite v4.0 Click >HERE< to register - [How to containerise a retro game with Docker!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1720) - I’m a Retrocomputing fan and I thought for shiz and giggles I’d explore putting a retro game in a container. The first step was to find a Retro game that had been ported to a web app of some sorts (preferably JavaScript) and I found: Click >HERE< to read more..... - [ALERT! ALERT! COMPETITION ALERT!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1713) - Altaro has launched an exciting contest in celebration of SysAdmin Day on 27th July! They will be giving away Amazon eGift Cards to the first 100 eligible entries and 1 Grand Prize for 1 lucky winner. The Grand Prize winner will be able to choose any prize from the following: a Playstation 4 Pro, - [VMworld Cometh](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1703) - Well, its time again and VMworld is looming. I personally haven’t missed a VMworld since 2005 and some years I’ve been lucky enough to go twice. You know the things I love about VMworld and that’s why I’m addicted to going include: • Networking – right at the top of my list…. It’s that - [Open is the way forward](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1695) - I decided to open-source the code of my previous projects and tools I built. Since I'm using GitHub more and more to help me with current projects I felt it unfair that I kept all my code to myself without sharing so I started uploading past projects into my GitHub. So amongst others you'll find - [Industry First: EUC profiles on a cloud blob..](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1690) - Check this out: Industry First Alert. The new version of ProfileUnity and FlexApp, v6.7.6, (my favourite product of all time) which has an industry first feature, the ability to have User Profiles as a Service from Object-based storage (Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Blob). Liquidware are able to do this with API level - [It’s Time to Refocus IT on Applications](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1682) - Check out this whitepaper from @datacenterdude for Uila software and his insight into modern day IT challenges. Click here > Download the latest hot off the press copy. - [Solving the Top5 Virtualized Application and Infrastructure Problems](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1656) - Nice paper for Solving the Top5 Virtualized Application and Infrastructure Problems by Dave Davis on behalf of Uila, awesome tool for hunting down virtually any problem... Click here to download > - [Bots - a blast from the past.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1604) - Team 18 years ago while I was still a Novell consultant and at work, I was very frustrated with the number of systems I had to log in too. We had NT domains + Novell Edirectory + numerous other dos based systems that had separate logins. I wanted to automate the login process because we - [Get started with VMware vSphere APIs](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1594) - If you wanted to get started with VMware vSphere APIs watch my UK VMware User Group session last month. Its a refresh of an older session I use to deliver. I focus less now on the SOAP based API and more on the REST based API. - [BOOM FREE BACKUP!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1579) - Boom, they just did it… Platinum Sponsor Vembu released a free edition of their Backup Product. It sports features like on-site, off-site and to the cloud backup hrough single user interface. Another offering of the Vembu BDR Suite is to be able to configure item level backups like Microsoft Exchange Servers, Sharepoint, SQL, My - [New sponsor Uila == Full Stack Visibility](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1569) - Please welcome my latest Platinum Sponsor Uila (We la) who had the pleasure of being introduced to by nonother than Mr John Toyer. After receiving a demo I got some good insight into their product and sorry for the pun “insight” yup you guessed it they provide full stack visibility of your environment. The great - [Automation, Automation, Automation](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1565) - Recently I was awarded the title of Distinguished Expert at Atos and now am the leader of the Automation Domain in that community. The expert community was formed to unite the experts in Atos and see if through alignment of different factions, business units, and cultures we can come up with some amazing IP. Anywho.. - [Liquidware Profile Unity Cool new feature](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1559) - Cool new feature - [Vembu Backup 3.8 whats new!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1556) - Vembu have released v3.8 of their backup tech and includes some new features: New features in v3.8 Disk Image Backup from BDR Server Disk Image Backups can now be configured and managed via Vembu BDR Server. Relying on proxy agents is no longer required, unless it’s a distributed deployment which require individual - [Morpheus Data Quick install Guide!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1551) - This week I had the pleasure of taking a deeper look at Morpheus Data’s Cloud Management and PaaS solution. I deployed it in my home lab and it went as smooth as a babies bottom. Very quick install and very simple to complete…. It basically does most of the work for you… Click HERE to - [How to address Data Center Challenges](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1546) - How to address Data Center Challenges - [VMworld Europe - Join Me again!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1543) - Last year I opted to go to VMworld US in Vegas. Whilst I was nice to be in the US again I did miss being with the Euro crowd. And last year I did miss a European event for the first time in 10 year. That's if you class the early TX shows as VMworlds - [vRealize Automation Lego Brick Icon Changer V2](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1539) - OK built a nice UI for the vRealize Automation Lego Brick Icon Changer. This app changes the blue lego brick icon to whatever you want in vRealize Automation that is used for the root level services icon. So here it is. Click to download: NOW BEFORE YOU USE THE TOOL BACKUP YOUR VRA VMS WITH - [vRealize Automation Lego Brick Icon Changer](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1518) - Today is the first time in 7 years I release another VMware tool. Recently on twitter I asked the question can you still not change the blue lego brick icon in vRealize Automation that is used for the root level services icon. Tim Hynes @railroadmanuk actually corrected me and showed me in the vRA doc - [vRO Active Directory Plugin needs LDAPS](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1495) - Recently I rebuilt vRealize Automation in my home lab gearing up for some internal sessions on home labs. I wanted to show usual stuff like provisioning a VM and some admin orchestration like user management. What I noticed, however, is in vRealize Orchestrator that the Active Directory workflow to change a user's Active Directory password - [AWS or AZURE Jobs Here](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1488) - So, if you've spent 10,000 hours in something you're supposed to be an expert. I've completed 29,920 hours in IT recruitment - I’ve been in the IT recruitment industry since 1999. I've completed 19,360 hours running my own IT recruitment business - I started MillsHill in 2005. I've spent 19,360 hours focusing - [FREE VM backup for everybody](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1480) - Now that is nice, a free forever backup tool. Vembu software recently released a free version of their backup product and in their words: Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition is suitable for both virtual environments like VMware, Hyper-V and also for physical servers, workstations, thus catering to all types of data centers It is free - [Zerto's PowerShell tips n tricks!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1472) - Came across a nice article from Zerto on Powershell from Joshua Stenhouse to manipulate their API. "Leverage the benefits of PowerShell task automation and configuration management to save you time and resources. Learn about how you can make the most of software-defined replication and recovery by utilizing Zerto Virtual Replication Rest APIs with PowerShell to - [RuneCast new sponsor!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1468) - Proud to announce a new sponsor to Virtualize Planet = = Runecast Runecast is an innovative provider of actionable predictive analytics for VMware vSphere environments. Runecast Analyzer provides software-defined expertise to mitigate service outages, increase security and compliance and reduce time in troubleshooting. Runecast Analyzer is deployed in VMware environments across the globe within enterprise - [Protecting Horizon View – Debunking the Myth](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1459) - This post describes some concepts and methods that could be used to backup a VMware Horizon environment and more so the VMware View components. VMware View is an enterprise solution for managing the lifecycle of virtual desktops, the applications running on those desktops and the user environment like user data and documents. CLICK HERE TO READ - [New Sponsor on my other blog](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1453) - Very proud to announce my first sponsor of my new blog blog.cloudnativeplanet.com Morpheus Data. I was very lucky to see a demo of Morpheus Data and was wowed by how feature rich the solution is. The person running the demo just happened to be an old friend of mine from Veeam James Smith. Morpheus is - [Vembu SaaSBackup 1.5 released](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1448) - Vembu SaaSBackup 1.5, one of the most reliable and affordable solutions in the market for SaaS application backup will now have an option to backup Office365 OneDrive as well. Office 365 provides OneDrive for their customers, which is hugely beneficial to create documents, presentation, excel sheet and other business related apps. The entire data comprising - [Remote Desktop Manager 12 just got released](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1444) - If you know me you know this is one of my fav tools. I chirp on about it all the time.The Devolutions team has been hard at work making some major improvements, enhancements and additions – many of which were suggested by our incredible community of IT pros (that would be YOU!).We’ve already announced three - [Vembu OffsiteDR Server: Optimize RPO & RTO While Enhancing DR Resilience](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1441) - The ability to configure and deploy high-performance VMs within a vSphere virtual environment continues to put CIO’s under increasing pressure to deal with the rampant bête noire of IT: business continuity. What started with Line of Business (LoB) driven Service Level Agreements (SLAs) requiring IT to meet rigorous Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives (RTO - [Getting started with the Cloud Foundry API](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1438) - So this week I started tinkering with the cloud foundry API. In all honesty I did have to get a little help from one of our developers because I was doing something wrong. Forgetting that in my lab I don’t have trusted certificates I wasn’t using a flag in the headers below to ignore that. - [How VMware VSAN can reduce cost and simplify VM storage](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1435) - Hey readers, are you interested in VSAN? Well here you can find a new VMware webinar on Tuesday 25th October 2016 about VSAN. The webinar is on how VMware VSAN can reduce cost and simplify VM storage. Andy Syrewicze and vExpert Theresa Miller will be the main speakers of the webinar. Registration link here: http://www.altaro.com/vmware-backup/webinars/vmware-vsan.php [adrotate banner="17"] - [True 15-Minute RTO for Mission-Critical VM Systems with Vembu VMBackup Replication](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1432) - Most IT sites, have a key system that is essential to the survival of their business. When processing on such a system is interrupted, essential Line of Business (LoB) operations cease to function and corporate business is significantly impacted. Moreover, the longer it takes to restore a mission-critical system, the greater the likelihood that the - [Pivotal Cloud Foundry Quick Install Guide (Home Lab Edition)](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1425) - I just authored the best helpful community home lab piece of material I have done in a long time. Wanna install Pivotal Cloud Foundry in your vSphere home lab then check out my post on my other site. CLICK HERE - [Product Review: Vembu VM Backup and DR](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1409) - My Platinum Sponsor Vembu asked me to review their VM Backup Product. So using my previously used format for reviewing backup products I tested each part of the product where possible and scored the test 1-to-5 5 being the highest score that test can receive. Some test where not scored but rather data used like - [Beta the ultimate Remote Desktop/Support tool](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1405) - Know if you know me you know I'm a big fan of the Remote Desktop Manager tool. Especially since there is s a free version... :-) Same crew have released a beta of a new tool WAYK that allows you to take control of a remote computer, or allow an authorized user to take control of - [Zerto 5.0 What will be new](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1400) - Zerto have a new release very shortly, 5.0 With it a whole raft of new features. In their words lets take a look at what features are set to hit 5.0:Replication and Recovery to Microsoft Azure Building on the continuing trend of businesses looking to utilize the cloud as a disaster recovery site, ZVR 5.0 will - [New Platinum Sponsor - Vembu - VM backup & DR](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1395) - Please let me introduce our newest Platinum Sponsor – Vembu. Vembu develop Backup & DR tools for virtualization and cloud and as we all know this is right up my street. Vembu’s own words “Vision of Vembu: “To make software and cloud services very affordable for the hundreds of thousands of small and medium businesses worldwide” Vembu’s - [Local Zerto Conference](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1386) - Cool I just found out there is a local Zerto Conference happening on my backdoor in September. I love the Zerto idea and as more people move to the cloud I see more people asking for DR in the cloud. Anyway you’ll see me there and in their own words : “Fresh off the success of - [Docker listening on a tcp port](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1382) - Getting docker working on a tcp port - [Running your Go Web Apps on Cloud Foundry](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1379) - So I wanted to test a Go Web running on Cloud Foundry and I’m still homing my skills in this area. I needed a simple hello world web app and found some Go examples on the web that use the net/http package.Click Here to read on. - [Meet Velostrata at Cloud Expo](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1370) - Meet Velostrata at Cloud Expo next week in London, Stand 835, demonstrating our latest cloud migration capabilities: Velostrata de-risks cloud migration because you can move compute while keeping storage on premises. Once you’re satisfied with performance and costs, Velostrata migrates the rest of the data in the background while apps are running. If you’re not happy - [What are people doing about running apps in the cloud?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1367) - Running a quick survey on cloud native apps. Please help out. No sales/marketing people will contact you, I promise > Cloud Native Survey - [Poor mans Private IaaS - An alternative to vCloud Director](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1357) - My boss made me a aware of an Open Source IaaS CMP a few days back called vOneCloud based on Open Nebula. I had seen Open Nebula before but didn’t actually know there was VMware compatible version. So I gave it a try in the lab. I downloaded the OVF appliance from http://vonecloud.today/ followed - [Velostrata = New Gold Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1349) - I’d like to welcome my new Gold Sponsor Velostrata. Velostrata do something interesting IMO. They are a startup vendor looking to help clients with Hybrid bursting woes and in their words: “What if you could move production workloads to and from the public cloud in minutes, not months? What if you didn’t have to - [Hybrid Bursting Tech you should check out!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1341) - This week at the London VMUG I caught up with Alon Goldin, someone I know from a previous life now working for Velostrata which is developing tech to help clients burst from VMware based private clouds into other public clouds like AWS. I love the idea they bring to the table and you should check it - [Veeam v9](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1338) - Veeam Backup & Replication v9 was released recently. Veeam V9 includes the following features Recovery of entire VMs or individual items Fast, agentless item recovery and e-discovery for Microsoft Exchange SharePoint and Active Directory Transaction-level consistent restore of Oracle databasesand SQL Server databases Lower RPOs and 20x faster backups with backup from EMC, HP and - [Bloggers view on VSAN](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1336) - Firstly happy new year all! Recently I was asked an interview question on my view on VSAN and its impact on hyper-converged over the next 3 years. The following post is my answer to that question along with other well known bloggers: http://www.altaro.com/vmware/vmware-vsan-hyper-convergence-vexpert-interview/ - [10 Years of Blogging: My Story](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1302) - So today I have been blogging about VMware, Virtualisation and Cloud for 10 year and I could not be more excited and prouder to be still part of this industry and its huge community. I have met a lot of people along my way and for those who work close with me they are usually - [Hitchhikers Guide to migrating to vRealize Automation from vCloud Director](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1327) - Here is the video of our session we delivered at the UK VMUG Conference 2015. This was our journey warts on all. - [Santa is coming with freebies at UK VMUG Conference.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1312) - I managed to cadge some freebies from @Unitrends @Opvizor @AltaroSoftware and @remotedeskman to give out at the 2 sessions I'm presenting. The first is a whiteboard round table on tips for Backing up VMs in which I have 3 licences to give out from @AltaroSoftware and @Opvizor and the second is session I'm co-presenting with - [App Layering that you really need to watch!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1295) - Hi All, I wanted to share something with you. I have been given a chance to review FlexApp DIA which is a feature of ProfileUnity from Liquidware Labs. So what I did was videoed my findings. For those of you that didn’t know I used to work for LiquidwareLabs but now I’m a customer - [VMWorld 2015 Short Videos from the Solution Exchange](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1298) - I recorded some nice short videos with some of the vendors at VMworld 2015 Europe thanks to Uniprint, VMturbo, Zerto and PernixData. - [vRealize Automation REST API Filter function gotha](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1289) - A colleague of mine (@peteroudman )asked me how to grab a parameter through filtering a JSON response generated from the vRA REST API after he had tried several times. The parameter in question was workItem number. The purpose of this was to automate a catalog item request that has an approval request attached to it. - [Altaro the new VM backup solution on the block!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1263) - Given my background I’ve been kindly asked to review a beta of Virtual Machine backup product from Altaro. Altaro are not so well known in the VMware community but have been doing Hyper-V backup for some time. More recently they decided to take their simple functionality and apply it to backing up VMware VMs too. - [VMworld Europe 2015](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1259) - I believe this is my 10th year at VMworld and what a way to celebrate my blogs 10th anniversary. In past years having I've had too mix VMworld sessions with work and booth work, this year I think I have a bit of freedom to learn something. Anyway why don't you join me and register - [vCO workflow parameters to request a vRA Catalog Item](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1255) - OK playing around tonight with vRealize Orchestrator day I wanted to use the workflow from the vRA Plugin to Request a Catalog Item in vRA. In my case it was a Blueprint to deploy an Ubuntu server. Now as a prerequisite you have to run a few other workflows to initiate your instance of vRA - [Sweet Snapwatcher Independence Day Special](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1253) - The opvizor team thought hard about a real Independence Day Special for their US customers and came up with a real sweet deal. This Special Won't Last Very Long (until July 4th 2015 11:59pm PST). So you got some days left. Hurry! Get the perfect deal done before celebrating Independence Day and enjoy your next - [Move to CTO Office, what it means to me.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1251) - Well it finally happened. As of today I moved to the CTO Office at Canopy. For the last 3 years I have been focussed on development of our Private Cloud Solution which I created the High-Level Architecture for. Turns out it was a success and is our flagship product. Moving forward after 22 in infrastructure - [Looking for sponsor to share and celebrate 10 years.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1247) - Few months from now I will be celebrating 10 years of blogging on Virtualization, Cloud and EUC and I'm looking to complete my line up of sponsors. On November 5th 2015 that will be a decade of dedication and the people that have supported me will share the limelight. If you are interested in sponsoring my - [With vROPs you still need something like Opvizor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1226) - I attended the VMUG in London last week and I noticed that VMware had added a Fix Action feature to vROPs. Matthew Steiner @VMware explained that the feature would present Python scripts for you to manually run and fix things like performance issues. This reminded me very much of what Opvizor has been doing and my first - [vRealize Automation Tenant Customisation Wiped With Update](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1203) - Hi All If you remember the video I recorded showing how to change the default tenant portal login page? Well I noticed that updating the vCAC ID Appliance wipes out most of the customisation. It doesn't refresh the main configuration parameter found in the LDAP bits but any file you added or any CSS file - [Please vote for me?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1199) - Its that time of year again and I need your help to get on the top virtualisation blogs list. Please vote my site at: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2032977/TopvBlog2015 my blog is read.virtualizeplanet.com Thanks Guys! - [IS YOUR HOME LAB BIG ENOUGH?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1188) - Having just added another 64GB 8 core SSD host to my lab I ran a survey to see what everyone else is doing. I thought this would be interesting to post so you can see what everyone else is doing. Please read the whole post because at the bottom my sponsor VMturbo has a competition - [VMUG Award: Exceptional Service Award.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1180) - I’m very honoured to be awarded the "Exceptional Service Award" today at the London VMware User Group Today. The VMware User Group has provided me a platform to be helpful to others. I like to talk about technology and it’s nice to keep some form of public speaking opportunity going since I don’t get to - [Starwind Silver Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1035) - I’m pleased to announce Starwind Software as a Silver sponsor. Now I first came across Starwind in 2006. Back then the company was part of RocketDivision . In 2006 I was looking for a software ISCSI solution so I didn’t have to purchase a piece of hardware. I used it for VMware training courses to - [User Environment Management (UEM) Challenges White Paper](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1163) - Check out this Whitepaper from Liquidware Labs. It explores the Challenges we may have with UEM and Profile/Persona Management. [adrotate banner="6"] - [10 years of blogging about VMware](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1158) - 2015 and I’m proud to say on November the 5th this year I’ve been blogging about VMware/Virtualisation/Cloud for 10 years. For the last decade I’ve had the time of my life and it’s all because of VMware. Of recent I revamped my website and now have some great sponsors. I’d like to thank in no particular - [The Great VM Backup Bake off..](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1071) - I started a new project off. I have authored a comparison paper comparing 5 somewhat similar VM Backup solutions. This is the beginning of an iterative project. I know I can test more products and perform more tests but these are the products that came to mind and the tests are relevant to how I - [The Great VM Backup Bake off - Minor Update](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1100) - Both Unitrends and Veeam persuaded me to use their Essentials package pricing as these were still relevant to the report. This does put things in a new perspective. Download it: Please check out my sponsored link: - [Tegile Whitepaper - Storage Capacity and Performance Optimization at Mizuno USA](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1135) - Mizuno USA needed to upgrade it's SAN infrastructure to replace an aging system. Data growth was also causing problems for their backup process. Mizuno turned to Tegile Systems to solve both the SAN and backup issues. Read it here > - [My 2015 Predictions](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1139) - So it’s that time of year and this year I decided to post my 2015 predictions. I like to keep it short and sweet though. We’ll see the emerging companies that are developing the glue to help hybrid cloud really work come to fruition. The ability to move VMs between clouds will become easier. The - [Customize your vRealize Automation tenant portal](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1131) - OK a buddy of mine at work "Ron" showed me that you can customize the front page (before the user logs in) of your vRealize Portal. So I recorded a video showing how to do it plus I added few other hacks I found along the way. Also I gave creds to Fabio @ gosddc.com - [Win a Drone with VMTurbo!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1105) - A few weeks back VMTurbo released v5 of their technology further enabling customers to define and drive their environment toward the desired state, where application performance is assured while maximizing efficiency. The complexity in today’s data center makes solving todays problems harder and harder, and VMTurbo is the a software-driven approach for addressing everyday challenges. - [RackWare Management Module for AWS](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1097) - RackWare have launched RackWare Management Module (RMM) for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a solution that allows windows and Linux workloads to move from ANY source infrastructure to AWS. Yes you read that correct, ANY physical server, ANY cloud based workload and ANY virtual workload (not just VMware) can be moved to AWS and back. The - [Bounce to AWS and back to VMware Again.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1094) - Unitrends launched a new solution called Boomerang that gives you to ability to use AWS for load balancing, disaster recovery and data migration between AWS and VMware. With Boomrang you can DR or migrate workloads to on/off premise to private/shared clouds from AWS and VMware. This is pretty cool because if it means if I - [Remote Desktop Manager 10 Features](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1089) - Devolutions’ Latest Remote Desktop Manager 10 Features New Customizable Interface & More Devolutions announced today that the much-anticipated version 10 of its flagship product Remote Desktop Manager is now available for immediate download. First introduced in 2010, Remote Desktop Manager is an all-in-one remote connection, password and credential management platform that is trusted by more - [Zerto = Silver Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1042) - I’m pleased to announce Zerto as Silver sponsor. [adrotate banner="15"] Zerto is probably something we will look at work to address a requirement we have for our IaaS clients. Zerto’s has a hypervisor-based replication solution which enables alignment of your Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan with your IT strategy. By using hypervisor-based data - [Installing the vCAC 6 IaaS component doesn't have to be hell.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=812) - Yesterday I pretty much spent a whole day attempting to install the IaaS component of vCAC 6. I'd referred to Jad El-Zien's guide and Kendrick Coles post on the topic. I must have tried 20 times before I got it right so here are my tips to getting installed without errors on a Windows 2008 - [vCO - which Java version](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=822) - I started to use vCenter Orchestrator more recently and I found issues with later versions of the Java runtime and the vCO client. The one that works for me is v7 update 45 64bit. To save you sometime trying to find older copies of Java here is a link to the one I used. CLICK - [Cloud Analogies](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=825) - Just for a bit of fun I'm creating a new section of my blog called "Cloud Analogies". In work I seem to be drawing a lot of parallels so people can understand why we are making certain decisions about cloud solutions. And of course me being me I have to put a funny twist on - [Horizon Workspace - User cannot logon](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=831) - I had an issue in my lab that was a small gotcha and is worth of a post. I’m sure if I’d not been half a sleep and actually RTFM I would have spotted this from the get go. The issue I had was in Workspace, my administrator user could logon and access its entitlements no problem. - [vCAC 6 Repo404 simple fix](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=844) - Once again I find installing vCAC 6 a test...... I kept running into a Repo404 error Service Unreachable. I followed the same guides I'd followed before to get it working but could not get past this error. I found references to it at places like http://www.virtualizationteam.com/cloud/vcac-6-service-unreachable-reference-error-repo404.html and in the release notes but the fixes documented were - [ESXi IQN name capitalized?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=907) - While rebuilding my lab I noticed a weird problem while trying to attach my ISCSI LUNs to my nested ESXi servers. The format of the IQN name for the storage adapter was inconsistent depending where you viewed from. Some of the last part of the iqn name is capitalised in the storage adapters view whilst - [VMware and Wildcard Certificates](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=980) - Recently I rebuilt my lab and decided to go for a wildcard certificate to get rid of those irritating security warnings. I found some nasty things happen down the line and in fact I ended up rebuilding my lab completely once again to fix the numerous problems I had which I believe was caused by - [Another vCAC 6 Repo404 error](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1000) - Today I decided to try to continue the rebuild of my lab and I fired up vCAC 6 and once again received an Repo404 error as seen in my previous post >here< . I decided reinstall time thinking I'd not fixed the problem the last-time but decided not to wipe out the old VMs. I - [New Visio and OmniGraffle Stencils from VMTurbo](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1020) - Back in 2008 I created a blog post detailing where you can find VMware Visio stencils. I haven't done it for a while as other blogs have maintained current lists since 2008. However VMTurbo just released a bunch of new ones which can be found >HERE< Here's a quick glimpse: - [vCloud Director Plugin for vCO - Login failed](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1012) - I came across an issue today while installing a later version of the vCloud Director plugin for vCO which I didn't see documented in the install guide. When enabling the plugin you have to provide details of one of your vCD cells and credentials. No matter what I tried I received the below error: An - [Opvizor = next Gold sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=1004) - I'm please to announce my last gold sponsor, Opvizor [adrotate banner="10"] Back in 2008 I attended a VMware VMworld event in Cannes and met a chap who gave me a signed copy of his book. His name was Dennis Zimmer. I'd followed Dennis and known he'd had a connection with Mighty.de. I lost touch with Dennis - [Rackware = Next Gold Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=984) - I'm pleased to announce Rackware as the next gold sponsor. Rackware is new to me but its something we are looking at in Canopy. The way I understand it right now is that its a platspin alternative but for cloud.... Exactly what we need... RackWare brings intelligence and automation to the cloud, providing greater availability - [Veeam = New Gold Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=944) - [adrotate banner="7"] I’m pleased to announce Veeam as the next Gold Sponsor Now Veeam probably need no introduction as most people know I once was “the veeam guy” especially in Europe. Veeam are well known for the Backup solution Veeam Backup & Replication. They are the best at what they do but I’m not saying - [Liquidware Labs = New Gold Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=963) - [adrotate banner="6"] I’m pleased to announce Liquidware Labs as next Gold Sponsor Ok, Ok, We all know I used to work for Liquidware so I’m slightly biased but that was 2.5 years ago and I still love their technology. I’ve been a strong advocate so its no wonder they are also supporting me. I love - [Tegile = New Gold Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=974) - [adrotate banner="5"] I’m pleased to announce Tegile as the next Gold Sponsor. Tegile has been very good in supporting the vExpert community and you’ll see them this year at VMware but here’s what they do: Tegile System's portfolio of Intelligent Flash storage arrays are designed to accelerate enterprise applications – from smaller workloads - [Devolutions = New Gold Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=934) - [adrotate banner="4"] I'm pleased to announce that Devolutions is our new gold sponsor. Now they have a free tool I've been using for sometime now after @dszp (who one the first people I connected to in twitter) told me about this wonderful software for allowing me to manage my RDP sessions like a local connection - [Unitrends = Platinum Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=903) - [adrotate banner="11"] I'm pleased to announce Unitrends is sponsoring the platinum spot of VirtualizePlanet. Unitrends provides: Complete disaster recovery from an off-site location via private cloud or Unitrends public cloud service – LEARN MORE Software-only virtual appliances for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere to protect your entire infrastructure and extend that protection to the cloud - [VMturbo = First Gold Sponsor](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=925) - [adrotate banner="3"] I’m pleased to announce VMturbo as the first Gold sponsor . We’d looked at VMturbo at Canopy and thought it looked cool and had some advantages because of its hooks into vCloud. VMTurbo’s is a Software-Driven Control platform that enables organizations to manage cloud and enterprise virtualization environments to assure application performance while - [We are 10 next year so time to find sponsors!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=888) - My Blog www.virtualizeplanet.com is 10 years old next year and I have decided that after all this time I will allow vendors to advertise using a 125x125 banner. It’s a great way to make use of the traffic coming through my site. In the last year Webalizer monitored that I had: 290,229 Unique Visitors 586,781 - [ProfileUnity 6 - You need this in VMware Horizon](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=840) - As you may or may not know I worked for a brief time for a bunch of industry friends of mine LiquidwareLabs and was privy to roadmaps and stuff they wanted to do with their products. Well being a partner now of LiquidwareLabs and still very good friends with the crew over there I still get - [UK VMUG session give aways](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=807) - On 21st (this week) I'm running my popular session on developing vSphere/vCloud .Net Apps for novice programmers. My pals over at LiquidwareLabs have offered to give me 50 USB keys with instructions to get a FREE single host copy of Flex-IO. I had the pleasure of testing the beta and in a nutshell Flex-IO allows - [vCD LDAP Setting to enable vCAC Blueprint provisioning](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=792) - So this week I finally got around to gluing my vCAC deployment with my vCloud in my home lab. I create a blueprint which is based on a VCD template for deploying a DC and an Exchange 2003 vApp. I have been on the vCAC 5.2 training course but I found it easier to follow - [My VMworld Session "Tips for Developing VMware Apps for Novices Programmers"](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=785) - Thanks for supporting my VMworld session because it paid off. I've been invited to deliver my session at VMworld Europe in Barcelona Oct 15-17. My session is "Tips for Developing VMware Apps for Novices Programmers" and I finally started to appreciate that these skills could be useful in day-2-day devops. Help in aligning your business - [Horizon Workspace Bad Gateway](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=779) - After being on vacation and turning my lab back on after month of being powered down I found I couldn’t get Horizon Workspace operational again. Error message was Bad Gateway. I remember I had this problem before and it turned out to be an uplink down on one of my DVS switches associated to Workspace. - [Vote my VMworld Session](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=777) - Team/Friends please vote for my VMworld session > 4525 Tips for Developing VMware Apps: Novices Programmers - Found Here > http://goo.gl/lgez7 < I've delivered this session at VMUG and had interest so I want to deliver it to a wider audience. - [#LonVMUG Time again](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=774) - Its that time again. London VMUG happening next week on the 25th. The line up looks like this: VMTurbo Plenary Presentation - Andrew Mallaband Don't Do Virtual Networking, Do Cloud Networking - Greg Ferro, packetpushers.net The Virtual Community, Social Media & You - Darren and Gregg How InfoSec Can Improve Your Love Life - Barry - [vCloud vs DPM vs DVS Observation](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=764) - Over the Easter holiday I turned off my home lab which includes vSphere and vCloud. I powered it down using methods which I thought best for different aspects of my lab so for example if vApps/VMs were under the control of vCloud Director I used VCD to shut them down. After returning I attempted to - [Customizing vCloud Login UI](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=754) - There is no point for me taking credit for blogging about this topic (I'm not an aggregator :-) ) but I found this article on customizing the vCloud Login UI found >HERE - ["Pimp my vLab"](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=728) - Mike Laverick recently made aware of a nice alternative to home labs. I have an extensive home lab at home so I think it’s too late for me now but I did contemplate getting a hosted lab rather than kill my electricity and upset the wife. But too late for me but not for you. - [vCC 2.0 elongated vApps](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=722) - So I need to 100% for sure need to bring my vCloud skills up to speed. I found out this week that latest version vCloud Connector is much more than a migration tool. With vCC 2.0 you can stretch vApps across Clouds. The feature of vCC 2.0 is called “vCloud Connector Datacenter Extension” and enables - [My first vCloud App "Hello Org" part#1](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=730) - Last night I managed to get my first vCloud .net app working. To get started I took one of the simple examples contained with the vCloud .Net SDK and copied aspects of it test what could be done. I imported the 2 DLLs (VcloudSDK_V5_1.dll, VcloudRestSchema_V5_1.dll) as needed and added the correct the using statements: using - [Top # Virtualisation Blogs](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=719) - Twice a year I beg for your support. #1 is to be voted as one of the top virtualisation bloggers and #2 is to be nominated as a vExpert. If you like what I do here please vote for my blog at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1165270/Top-vBlog-2013 < 2 things that make me want to continue giving to the - [Getting Started - writing VMware Apps presentation](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=717) - My presenation from the UK National VMUG last week: - [#UKVMUG - Source Code](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=715) - If you attened my National UK VMUG session yesterday I promised that I would post the source code of the application I demonstrated with. So here its > - [Breaking the Magician’s Code, AGAIN! #UKVMUG](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=711) - If you missed my session on creating VMware Apps for novice programmers then at the UK National VMUG I will once again be presenting a community session about how novice programmers can start building VMware Apps like the ones I have developed over the years. I’m not a programmer and only know the fundamentals of - [vSphere Book List](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=708) - The more I get involved with my new organisation and its relationship with Atos the more I am immersed in all things managed services and datacentres. One book I'm interested in to help me get back into the real-world is this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/VMware-VSphere-Building-Virtual-Datacenter/dp/0321832213/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1349301361&sr=8-2 The blurb reads: Every year, IT managers must deliver more services faster, - [VMware View Book](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=705) - OK I got 2 minutes of fame today as one of the reviewers for the new VMware View booked authored by 2 mates of mine Mike Laverick & Barry Coombs. http://www.lulu.com/shop/mike-laverick-and-barry-coombs/building-end-user-computing-solutions-with-vmware-view/ebook/product-20309411.html#productDetails Click the link above to purchase a copy. I believe a chunk of money goes a to Unicef. - [Which type of VMware View Desktop do you prefer?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=702) - I'm researching some material and need to understand what is the prefered desktop pool users use from a VMware View environment. Please vote for which you use: [polldaddy poll=6384437] - [July 19th London VMUG](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=694) - July 19th London VMUG registration page is now open. I’m may actually miss this because of there is a good chance that I will be doing something new and exciting. I’ll be gutted if I miss it because VMware plan an NDA roadmap session which should be very interesting. Also my chumps over at Whiptail - [VMUG Session Source Code](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=690) - Today I delivered 2 sessions on how to write VMware Apps for novice programmers. I used an example app to demo in my session. I promised to upload the source code so people could see how I developed the application. Please download from here > < and please let me know if develop your own - [VDI streamed Profiles = 15% Less User Density](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=685) - I heard something interesting this week from Andreas Groth who is IBM’s lead VDI engineer which possibly reinforces how ProfileUnity delivers profile centralisation against the competition. Let me first explain something about VMware View Persona Manager. View Persona Manager is a fairly good profile solution from VMware that actually does something quite cool. It streams - [vExpert 2012](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=683) - Yesterday I received the news once again I have achieved the community status of VMware vExpert. This is the 3rd year running and I am honoured to receive this title. Question is now I have the hat-trick do I retire or continue. I think while I can still add value and be useful to the - [Breaking the Magician’s Code at #LonVMUG](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=679) - Next month Liquidware Labs will be sponsoring the London VMUG and actually it won’t be me presenting in our vendor pitch. Instead I will be presenting a community session (run twice) about how novice programmers can start building VMware Apps like the ones I have developed over the years. I’m not a programmer and only - [How to use Plugin Wizard with vSphere5](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=676) - OK my application does work with vSphere 5. To make it work follow my previous instructions but save the xml file on the vCenter in c:\Program Data\Vmware\Vmware VirtualCenter\docRoot\yourplugin.xml And in the "URL of plugin used for registration" use: https://your-vCenter/yourplugin.xml Click "Register Plugin" and job done. - [Optimise VDI and maybe Win an Apple TV (VMUG)](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=674) - On 17th of April I will be presenting at the Leeds VMUG. Session is about Optimise Virtual Desktops & ProfileUnity. Come see my presentation, bring a business card for a chance to win an Apple TV. My session is part community part vendor pitch. People are just starting to take VDI seriously now and if - [Alternative whitepaper - backing up VMware View](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=672) - I wrote a whitepaper for my wife’s venture describing an alternative way of backing up a VMware View environment. VMware already have a best practices paper but I felt it missed a few ideas. Like how to backup the images, which images to backup and how to protect the user-state with ProfileUnity from Liquidware Labs. - [New Sponsor + 10% Discount on VCP](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=665) - I want to welcome my latest sponsor "VPLANET SERVICES" my wifes company. They have a special offer on VMware vSphere 5 - Install, Configure and Manage training. Offer a limited time you can get a discount in the UK. Quote "VPLANET SERVICES wants to help everyone become adpt and knowledgable in VMware. For a limited - [Defective Clone - Rouge Local Profile](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=660) - I found an issue in my lab and I think it would be useful to post about it on my blog. In my lab I was running a 2003 Domain, vSphere 5 and VMware View 5.0. Everything was working just fine until recently when I upgraded my Domain to 2008. Straight away I noticed that - [VOTE FOR ME < pretty please](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=658) - OK listeners, please vote for me >HERE< to be nominated as Top25 Blogs as seen in vLaunchpad If you really really love my blog you'd do it, go on do it, ya wanna I know :-) - [Forget the FUD, try it yourself part2](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=654) - As promised I have to started to record videos demonstrating at that our products are what we say they are in allegations of FUD... I'll start referring to this situation as FUDGate. This shows that Profile Unity our Persona Management solution is the fastest to deploy, simplest to configure and has the thinnest foot print. - [VDI simple Stress Tool](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=650) - In 2006 I created a small tool called StressMess to test sessions on Citrix running in a VMware ESX VM. I know there is a plethora of stress/load tools out there but I just wanted a very simple tool that would fire up Excel and Word, do some work randomly, shutdown Excel/Word and wait sometime - [Forget the FUD, try it for yourself toe-2-toe](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=639) - OK recently I have been in debate where it’s been insinuated that a doer of FUD, a FUDmiester a Muddy FUDster is leading the debate. I’ve always been a person that trusts in products after getting to know the product from a technical perspective. I work in vendor land and I would be the first - [2012 Predictions](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=637) - Last week I recorded a podcast with my predictions for 2012. I was part of an all star line up on this podcast including Kenny Coleman and Scott Lowe. It was interesting to hear the contrasting views of what will happen in 2012. Of coure mine was VDI VDI VDI... but if you want to catch the - [Your home lab costs too much electricity?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=630) - Just found out my electricity bill is going up by 19% and its already stupidly high as it is. So I decided to save my own pocket to go green in what way I can. So #1 of course I’ve got my home vSphere cluster properly configured to keep off one of my servers switched - [I FlexApp'd a virus checker and I liked it ](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=628) - It felt so wrong but it felt so right. Witness again the awesome power of Liquidware Labs FlexApp Technology, this time I FlexApp Microsoft Security Essentails: - [Fulfil the VDI Prophecy](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=620) - So I’ve been with my new company Liquidware Labs a few days now and I think it’s about time I explain what we do if you don’t know us. Plain and Simple we enable VDI. Well what does that mean? I think until recent time it’s been quite difficult to truly assess and design a - [FlexApp'd Opera and FileZilla](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=605) - 2 videos from David @LiquidwareLabs demostrating the awesome power of FlexApp If you have not been following this is a new feature coming soon with Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity - [First look at Liquidware Labs FlexApp Beta](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=598) - OK so I had a chance today to play with the new tool from Liquidware Labs known as FlexApp. If you are familiar with ThinApp FlexApp complements ThinApp in that FlexApp can abstract a lot of applications in a desktop that ThinApp has trouble handling. I'm not saying ThinApp is bad, but due to its - [vDisk Informer updated for vSphere 5](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=596) - I finally got around to updating vDisk Informer for vSphere 5. Download it here > 1.2 version did work in some fashion but it wasn't reporting version8 VM hardware properly. - [Replication Bandwidth Calculator](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=91) - ReplicaCalc How many times do you get asked "how do I work out if VM Replication will work with my internet link" Well I wanted to demonstrate some way of providing a calculator without working it out in my head every time. So I made a Replication Calculation tool. It is assumed that you provide - [Do you want to backup Exchange on W2008?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=121) - I don't usually get this passionate but recent BS spread by one of our competitors which include straight out lies, claiming Veeam Backup cannot perform the most simplest of tasks like restoring to an earlier point. So I wanna fight lies with truths and straight out facts: Their backup product doesn't have CBT....so sloowwww Their - [PowerCLI: Lesson #2](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=157) - As I go through this serious of lessons on PowerCLI I’m going to try to expose the basics of PowerShell in the same lessons. 2 for the price 1. I’m going to initially deliver them in very small nuggets scaling larger as we advance into more detailed stuff. So in this lesson I’m going to - [PowerCLI: Lesson #4](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=187) - In this lesson we are still focusing on the basic fundamentals of PowerShell. I know this section should be about PowerCLI but without understanding the fundamentals of PowerShell then nothing we discuss about PowerCLI will make sense. I will still try to throw some PowerCLI cmdlets into the mix though. So that being that I - [PowerCLI: Lesson #5](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=206) - Lesson # 5 Ok if you look back at Lesson #3 we talked about a command to list out all the PowerCLI Get- cmdlets, which was >gcm –Module vmware* -verb get well let us come back to that now. Its traditional for PowerShell cmdlets to be constructed like so: Verb-MeaningfulWord for example Get-VM Well Get- - [Russian version of PowerCLI lessons](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=222) - Cool, Anton over at vadmin.ru has started to translate my PowerCLI lessons into Russian: Click here to view - [PowerCLI: Lesson #6](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=239) - This lesson I thought I'd talk about some realworld stuff. In my lab I had a need to use VMware DPM to reduce the heat my home servers where creating by shutting down 1 server while not needed. What I wanted though was to control at what point's through the day DPM was enabled or - [Do you use FREE apps in production?](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=269) - [polldaddy poll=3308976] - [vExpert 2010](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=281) - This morning I received an email announcing that I had been awarded the vExpert 2010 award from VMware. Last year I missed the deadline for nominations due changes in my circumstances, but this year I made it and very proud. So I'd like to thank anyone who nominated for me and make a pledge to - [VMware+SSD = Ultimate Mobile Lab](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=408) - For a few months now I've been limping along with my old laptop and more recently I took delivery of a new system plus a 240GB OSZ SSD drive. I picked some serios spec to help me run as other do in the Veeam Teeam a mobile lab with VMware Workstation. Since I purchased system - [Do you own a VMware home lab](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=416) - I'm interested how many people use VMware at home... [polldaddy poll=4770703] - [VMUG Registration gets a face lift.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=421) - VMUG members have a glossy new site to register their interest in events. I'm a regular member of both NorthUK and London VMUG. The next event at London VMUG is happening on May 12 and this event is very much Cloud focussed. If you want to come along and be part of this community register - [StarWind an old flame](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=434) - Not sure how long you have known me for but when I started this blog 2005/2006 I blogged about a software ISCSI solution called Starwind from a company formerly called Rocket Division (Now Starwind Software). Well the guys over there were kind of enough to give me an NFR of their product as I was - [The Ultimate Portable Lab part1](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=486) - Last year I delivered several Veeam training workshops at the Dutch VMUG. Dell kindly donated a server to run our labs off but the problem was it was one noisy beast. And we couldn’t work out how to deploy the agent in ESX that controls the fans (no help from Dell either). I want to - [The Great Storage Debate](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=482) - The last time I was at the London VMUG Julian Wood brought to my attention that people believe NFS storage is the better platform to use nowadays with vSphere. I still cannot get my head around this as I was always led to believe Block Storage out performance File Storage. I even have an old - [Running nested hypervisors on the Ultimate Portable Lab](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=507) - You probably seen my recent blog post on www.veeam.com/blog well I decided to record a video to test out my lab while running nested hypervisors. ESX5i and Hyper-V running on the same box...you gotta love VMware for this 10 out of 10 for effort. - [The Top 10 Free Tools for vSphere in 2011!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=510) - OK now we all know I have some free tools I made in my spare time and recently thanks to Kendrick Coleman and David Davies my tools have been getting some visibility. They were showcased in their VMworld 2011 session “#CIM1940; The Top 10 Free Tools for vSphere in 2011!” Kenny and Dave are doing - [vExpert 2011](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=423) - It’s that time again and the vExpert 2011 application is open for business. I'm glad to see this year that the application form gives you the opportunity to include the efforts you are most proud about of. I've filled my application but if you like the work I have done on this blog and the - [PowerCLI: Lesson #7 < I'm back in business](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=439) - Ok I have to make my apologies about this section, it’s been sometime that I have continued these PowerShell Lessons and the reason for that was I was waiting to get my hands on a new PowerCLI book. So now I have a copy I think it’s time for me to once again start - [The cat is out of the bag (Veeam Book)](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=450) - Ok the cat is out of the bag. If you’ve not guessed it from the title of this post I’m writing a Veeam Book. In fact I’m about half way through. The initial book will cover Veeam Monitor, Veeam Reporter and Veeam Backup & Replication. I’m going to try to squeeze in as much of my - [I'm starting a new role in VDI land](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=514) - So I have some big news if you’ve not already heard. I’m moving on from Veeam Software where I was the Director of Global Education Services to join Liquidware Labs as Northern EMEA Technical Director. I left Veeam with my head held high whilst staying friends with the Veeam guys. Veeam provided me with an - [Vdisk alignment part#2](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=260) - [redirect http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=366] A few months ago I wrote a blog post to show you how to reclaim disk space and align virtual disk to improve performance using 2 free tools: http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=8 Ok I have an update on this idea which is going to make this process even simpler. The team that developed Gparted have informed - [vSphere Plugin Wizard V1.1](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=229) - [redirect http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=381] Ok so I got side tracked but I finally finished the next version of my vSphere Plugin Wizard which now has a removal feature. vSphere Plugin Wizard allows you to create web plugins and have them registered in the vCenter. To review in more detail have a look at the old post found - [Rewind the future](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=397) - I’m going to start something here which I haven’t seen many bloggers in our industry do before. I’m going to pay homage to people I think impacted and prepared us for where we are today. I feel our community is large and vast but if you asked most people “where did modern day computing all start” - [vDisk Informer is here!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=366) - Ok in an effort to enhance 2 of my existing apps I created something new and born from the ashes is a new app called vDisk Informer. vDisk Informer demonstrates which virtual disks have potentially wasted space on them and which virtual disks are misaligned causing a performance impact. See how it works if my - [vSphere Plugin Wizard How to](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=352) - THIS APP HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH THIS VERSION > and you watch a demo >HERE< Again I created a glossy presentation/video demonstrating how to use my to create either local VI client plugins or vCenter plugins registered in the SDK. Click on the play button in the picture below to see how: - [vSphere Plugin Wizard 2.0](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=381) - I'm on a roll here and I just revamped my app. It's now easier to use, can edit existing plug-ins and once again looks sexy. Use this tool to create a tabbed plugin of your favourite website or admin page. Whether its Veeam Backup, View Admin or twitter, if it’s a web page you can - [Vdisk wasted storage cont...](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=346) - THIS APP HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY and the post for this app can be found >HERE< but you will still require Gparted > read on.. Again back in March I created a blog post which discussed how to reclaim wasted disk space for FREE by using one of my fav apps Gparted and a tool I created - [How to quickly find misaligned vdisks](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=360) - THIS APP HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY and the post for this app can be found >HERE< To start a new year I thought I'd give you a new FREE app to play with. My new app which you can be used to find out which Windows VMs have aligned/misaligned vdisk partitions. To find out how to use it - [Save & Optimise Virtual Disk Storage for FREE.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=8) - Save & Optimise Virtual Disk Storage for FREE. This article demonstrates a FREE way of saving/optimising Virtual Disk storage space using software which is freely available. Include is :1. How to report which disks are over-allocated using our very own free vdisk waste finder application from here > 2. How to resize over-allocated vdisks using - [Vdisk alignment cont....](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=338) - Ok back in march I created a blog post around vdisk alignment and how to achieve it using a FREE tool called gparted. Since then the dev team behind gparted have included some new tricks and made the process easier. So I decided to reload this post but with some cool how to videos. Ok so - [ESX to Diskless ESXi](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=324) - This week I decided that I’d take a leap of faith and switch from using full fat ESX 4.1 on my home lab systems to using ESXi 4.1 running from USB keys thus allowing me to remove the otherwise hot SATA disks from my hosts. I also used this opportunity to upgrade my home SAN - [Scheduled DPM](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=301) - I wanted to reduce the heat generated by my home lab as its in the Loft/Office and wanted to automate any procedure. Decided to enable DPM for the very first time and the task I faced was controlling when DPM was enabled or disabled. If you’re not familiar with DPM its VMware's vSphere technology that - [My first ever VMware support request](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=293) - I've been using VMware since 2001-2002 and decided I would try to track down my old VMware workstation product keys. The earliest I could find was 2003 VMware Workstation 4 upgrade key. However I did find my first ever support request I submitted with VMware dating 13/03/2002. I decided to tweet it out see if - [Plugin Wizard for vSphere](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=43) - ############New version found by clicking >HERE - [PowerCLI: Lesson #3](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=170) - Ok last week I was in Russia so I missed out on the weekly lesson. In this lesson I want to demonstrate the idea of how PowerShell is object orientated. Just about everything you work with in PowerShell is an object and objects have members known as properties and methods (actions). I’m going to use - [Running XenApp in a ESX VM](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=87) - Back in 2006 I wrote whitepaper outlining my thoughts about running Citrix XenApp virtualised in a ESX VM. The information is probably still relevant so if you want to read it Click Here > Recently I had a conversation with someone from VMware and we agreed that: there's no need to remove vmmemctl, as installing it - [PowerCLI: Lesson #1](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=138) - Ok before we begin I have to pay homage to where I’m getting my learning material from. 1. To learn PowerShell I’m using the Microsoft “Windows PowerShell step-by-step” book. 2. To Learn PowerCLI initially I’ll be referring to Hal Rottenberg’s Book “Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell “ and Trainsignal Pro Series Vol1 CBT (Hal - [PowerCLI Newbie](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=136) - I'm starting a new section on my Blog. I'm going to make a real effort to learn Powershell and PowerCLI for something else I'm doing so I have decided to using the learning experience to create a new section. I have made several effort to before but because I have no need to use - [Long Distance vMotion not New!](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=29) - A few weeks back I was listening to a discussion about the concept of vMotion over long distance as if it was a new thing which I instantly disagreed with because I personally had been describing the concept for students when I was a VMware instructor 3 years ago. I knew it was possible to - [File association with ThinAPP ](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=53) - Whitepaper from Aseem Anwar describing how to easily setup file association with ThinAPP virtual applications. Click Here > to download - [VDI - Automating Windows Install](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=50) - I was going to write a book on VDI at one point but myself and the other co-authors got overwhelmed with work so it's come to a standstill. So I decided to blog some of my material and one of the sections I wrote was demonstrating how to automate windows installation. First of all let's - [VCP Tips - Know your VMs Part1](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=130) - This paper helps you understand VM CPU, Memory and Network adapters. Please note that this only part1 and this document doesn't cover every aspect of a VM and more docs willl follow. To download click > - [VCP Tips - Storage Part1](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=21) - Ok so I wanted to give something back to the community and seen as I used to be a VMware trainer I decided to dedicate a section on helping people revise for the VCP exam. My first offereing is a document that gives you a consolidated view of storage related revision material. I'm never going - [VPCompanion](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=117) - Some years ago me and Mike Laverick talked about creating the ultimate VI admin tool. A VI Client but with the stuff missing. So the ability to perform configuration actions in bulk amongst others. I decided to resurrect this idea and I was going to call it vCompanion but after reviewing domain registrations I thought - [VP Snapper](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=35) - VP's example of an application to allow you to revert multiple snapshots from an ESX host at the same time + source code. Click > Click on thumbnail for screenshot. Plus source code >>>>> VMware Snapshot reverter - code - [TS Tweaker](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=31) - VP's very own Click > - Some Registry Key changes to make Terminal Server perform... This Application will allow you to tweak some common registry changes to optimise Terminal Server. - [Resource Pool Scheduler](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=45) - Ok I'm happy for people to play with my new app known as "Resource Pool Scheduler" aka "RPS". You can download RPS from here > . You will have to pop me an email requesting a license key on ricky@virtualizeplanet.com Click on picture to enlarge Resource Pool Scheduler 1.2 is an application that is managed - [VDM & Computers OU addition.](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=58) - This week we picked up on a potential problem with VDM creating new VMs in AD and placing them in the Computers OU which meant without third party intervention we would have to create a GPO on that OU which is messy, well I have a solution. You can use standard sysprep inf files as - [Virtualisation Visio Stencils](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=55) - I thought these links might be handy - if you ever have to draw an virtualisation infrastructure by hand (not using a time saving tools like Veeam Reportor) then below are some links to free Virtualisation Visio Stencils. Click on the below Links: Veeam Stencils Studio Graphic Scott Herold Microsoft Citrix from vmblog - [Speed up VMware Workstation](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=47) - OK here's a cheap way to speed up VMware Workstation VMs whilst limited by the amount of memory your computer can take or even the 4GB limit posed by 32bit Windows operating systems. The answer is simple providing you use Vista or Windows 7: Purchase a 4GB ReadyBoost USB stick. ReadyBoost is a component of - [vSwitch Local Speed](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=17) - A client told me today he thought he was having poor backup performance over a virtual network. But when he started debugging he noticed that it wasn't just Backup that was the problem it was all network IO through a local vswitch. He started the conversation by asking me what I expect to see in - [Hot Backup of MySQL on a Linux VM](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=25) - I wrote a paper describing how to take a transaction consistent hot backup of MySQL whilst runnung in a Linux VM. If you'd like a copy >Click Here ## Pages - [Free Downloads](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?page_id=1734) - Free virtualisation tool downloads - [No Access](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?page_id=1606) - [About](http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?page_id=2) - Ricky El-Qasem - Private Cloud Chief Technologist @ Canopy Cloud, developer of vSphere Plugin Wizard and vDisk Informer. Previous roles include Northern EMEA Technical Director with Liquidware Labs, Director of Global Education Services with Veeam Software, lead virtualisation consultant and lead VMware instructor. 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