Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” Cinnamon – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 18 Sarah…
New Updated Oracle Databases on VMware Best Practices Guide
Business Critical Applications (BCA) are at the heart of an organization; their performance, availability and reliability…
Monthly News – May 2016
News Thank you all for your donations and for your support. We’ve received a lot of…
RUSH POST: Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 vNIC Incompatibilities
LATEST UPDATE:VMware has received confirmation that Microsoft has determined that the issue reported in this post…
VMware at SAPPHIRE NOW 2016 Recap
From May 17th to May 19th, SAP welcomed around 30,000 attendees to Orange County Convention Center…
SAP HANA on vSphere – Support Status and Best Practices Summary
Since SAPHIRE 2016, SAP supports now also SAP HANA on vSphere 6 deployments for production workloads,…
Updated – Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere Availability and Recovery Options
Choosing the right availability configuration for your SQL Server on vSphere can be a bit confusing…
SAP HANA on VMware vSphere – Sizing (Compute)
This is the second blog of my SAP HANA on vSphere blog series and will provide…
Monthly News – April 2016
News Many thanks to all our sponsors and all the people who fund us via donations….
vRealize Automation 7 converged blueprints
vRealize Automation 7 feature a new Blueprint format. A converged blueprint can have one to many…
Sucuri becomes Linux Mint’s 3rd biggest sponsor
I’m happy to announce that Sucuri is now Linux Mint’s 3rd biggest sponsor. Sucuri is…
Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 3 of 3)
In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this…
Demo – Dynamically Enforcing Security on a Hot Cloned SQL Server with VMware NSX
VMware NSX is a software defined solution that brings the power of virtualization to network and security….
Monthly News – March 2016
News We’ll talk a bit about development this month. It’s still too early to talk about…
Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 2 of 3)
In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this…
Top Ten things to consider when moving Business Critical Applications (BCA) to the Cloud (Part 1 of 3)
The cloud transformation is now for real. Customers have a stated long-term goal of running a…
Updated: Microsoft SQL Server on vSphere Best Practices Guide
Microsoft SQL server is the most virtualized enterprise mission critical application today. In recent years it…
Monthly News – February 2016
News The attacks Since that Saturday night on February 20th, all our efforts went towards protecting…
Updated for vSphere 6 – SAP on VMware Best Practices guide
SAP production support for vSphere 6 was available from the latter half of last year – see…
New paper on Virtualizing SAP on vSphere on All Flash Storage
SAP HANA is the preferred database for all future SAP applications. Columnar databases and the in…
Monthly News – January 2016
News Donations Hello everyone! Before I start with the news, I’d like to share a few…
Now Updated: Microsoft Exchange Server on VMware vSphere Best Practices Guide
Microsoft Exchange Server is one of the mission critical applications most commonly virtualized on the vSphere…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE Edition. Linux…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Xfce released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Xfce Edition. Linux…
Linux Mint 18 codenamed “Sarah”
The first release in the upcoming Linux Mint 18.x series will be named “Sarah”. Sarah is…
Completely Disable Time Synchronization for your VM
Some administrative practices, like a bad habit, have more lives than the proverbial cat – they…
Monthly News – December 2015
News I wish you all a very happy New Year! 2016 is going to be an…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE Edition. Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Xfce – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Xfce Edition. Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa…
Storage I/O control for critical apps is a great idea
Recently, I have been asked this question: should we enable Storage I/O control on datastores used…
Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases
Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management for Databases In the first part of this series we…
Monthly News – November 2015
News Our apologies for posting these news so late. Since the website and forums went down,…
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN
Oracle Real Application Clusters on VMware Virtual SAN VMware Virtual SAN VMware Virtual SAN is VMware’s…