Apparently, Oracle hasn’t heard that many customers want them to support running Oracle applications within a Virtual Environment! I know, that for me, we have run Oracle in Virtual Machines for years now and full support would break down the last barrier anyone has for fighting against Oracle in a VM.  We have asked our [...]

Scott Drummonds of VMware has finally struck out and begun his own blog site.  vPivot If you know of Scott Drummonds already, you know he is a fantastic source of information on VMware Performance.  If you don’t, read up fast! Here is a link to his VMware Communities document repository.  Click here Very excited to [...]

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Chris Everette, a Contributor to Virtual Insanity posted his thoughts on Cloud Computing and what it means to IT.  Read it here. This past evening, I had an email conversation with a former colleague who is on the development side of Cloud Computing.  Morgan Catlin, Vice President of IT for Valtira, and I discussed how [...]

Joshua Townsend of VMToday just posted an article about ESXTOP and Windows Perfmon that included some of the lessons he learned when working with these tools.  I found it interesting as I had just posted some information on ESXTOP and how to use it with Perfmon.  You can find my document post here. I absolutely [...]

Simon Long of The Slog has posted a VCP vSphere Practise Exam built out of VMware documentation and personal information and experience.  Looks great, I plan on taking it tonight to brush up! Take the Exam here.

I keep meaning to post a link to this document that Zpan created.  It has great deal of information about how to gather performance statistics with ESXTOP batch mode and then use tools such as Windows PERFMON to review them and how to interpret what you are seeing. Great document to keep handy, personally I [...]

VMware has released a new white page on memory management techniques within ESX/i 4.  The previous version for 3.x was a great resource for many discussions, troubleshooting, and designs over the past few years.  This new document is every bit as good, but has even better documentation and examples with greater technical information. Read the [...]