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EMC FAST Fully Automated Storage Tiering for storage savings
Chuck Hollis, VP Global Marketing, CTO, EMC, describes FAST over 3 blog posts. The technology has been in Beta usage by several customers in 2009. The premise When you analyze the vast majority of app… more →
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Convert VHD to VMDK
ihilt wrote 4 days ago: Required programs: VMware Virtual Machine Importer 2 The purpose here is to convert a VHD file to a … more →
Workaround to increase the virtual disk size of a VMware Virtual Machine when the 256GB VMDK limit is reached
itbod wrote 1 week ago: When you initially create a VMFS partition on your LUN the default block size is 1MB. This however, … more →
EMC FAST Fully Automated Storage Tiering for storage savings
paule1s wrote 2 weeks ago: Chuck Hollis, VP Global Marketing, CTO, EMC, describes FAST over 3 blog posts. The technology has be … more →
Thin Provisioning - when to use, benefits and challenges
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paule1s wrote 3 weeks ago: There are excellent posts by two prominent authors that provide a lot of insight into the nuances of … more →
NetApp features for virtualization storage savings
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paule1s wrote 3 weeks ago: The feature set that gives customers storage savings is described in a 42 minute informative video o … more →
Netapp promises to reduce your virtualization storage needs by 50%
paule1s wrote 3 weeks ago: 50% Storage Savings Guarantee NetApp’s Virtualization Gurantee Program promises that you will … more →
Find VM's older than N days to free up disk space
paule1s wrote 1 month ago: I wrote a Python 2.6 script to find and list VM’s older than 90 days on my Windows workstation … more →
Download Chrome OS Image
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Alvin Enguillo wrote 1 month ago: ChromeOS After Google released their Chrome OS / Chromium OS source code to the public, one of gdgt … more →
Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro to shrink or enlarge VM's
paule1s wrote 1 month ago: You can download vOptimizer WasteFinder – 2.2 free from Vizioncore to analyze your VMware vCen … more →
A year in review: What are our readers looking for?
paule1s wrote 1 month ago: Our readers are primarily asking questions like: How can I free up disk space, on Windows, and on ex … more →
Converting Between Virtual Disk Formats
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Adam Craven wrote 1 month ago: In addition to its own native VDI virtual disk file format, Sun’s VirtualBox supports both Virtual P … more →
Converting VirtualBox to VMWare (*.vdi to *.vmdk)
r4pp157 wrote 2 months ago: After playing for a while with VirtualBox one realizes it has several advantages over the renowned V … more →
PowerCLI: Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) info v2: Analyze data with Excel
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afokkema wrote 2 months ago: In my previous post about this subject I created a script to view the information on the PowerCLI co … more →
PowerCLI: Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) info
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afokkema wrote 2 months ago: I was creating a small reporting script about the Virtual Machine disk. The things I wanted to repor … more →
Top 10 VMware Virtual Appliances for Security
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paule1s wrote 3 months ago: I have reviewed several appliances in the Secure Content and Threat Management and Identity, Access … more →
Top 10 VMware Virtual Appliances for IT Administrators
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paule1s wrote 3 months ago: I have reviewed several appliances in the IT Administration and Systems Infrastructure categories of … more →
How To expand your vmdk file
paule1s wrote 3 months ago: What should you do when you run out of virtual disk space and have to expand it? Here is an iinsight … more →
Expanding your vmdk file
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RS wrote 3 months ago: I ran out of space on my windows vm on the mac. I decided to expand it and ran into some problems. F … more →
VMware Appliance Marketplace Ratings Analysis
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paule1s wrote 3 months ago: During the past week, I was analyzing the recently revamped VMware Appliance Marketplace. My analysi … more →
