The missing note from the vShield 5 docs

Every IT guy (or gal) has, at some point in their career called a friend for a lifeline when they’ve gotten stuck. And invariably, every one of us has had that friend look at our problem and say something like “Did you plug it in?” I had one of those moments today. You see, I’m …

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A dinner with infamy

I’m writing this from 39119 feet above the corn fields of Wisconsin & Illinois, having just woken from a long nap brought on by a week in Las Vegas attending VMworld. Like every other attendee and exhibitor, I’m exhausted yet have a smile on my face. This was my third VMworld and like the other …

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Dr. iSCSI or How I learned to stop worrying and love virtual distributed switches on vSphere V5

Intro It’s July 12th 2011 around 2:30pm EST as I start to write this. Anything interesting in the world of VMware virtualization go on today? :) Riiight, VMware vSphere Version 5 has been announced! Along with many other products from VMware. Definitely go to  VMware.com and EMC.com to see all the “awesomesauce” as one crazy …

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