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…
How to upgrade to Linux Mint 17.3
It is now possible to upgrade the Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 17, 17.1…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Edition. Linux…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE Edition. Linux…
Crash consistent backups and database cloning with Virtual Volumes
In the first part of this series we provided a high level view of the benefits…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa…
Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” MATE Edition. Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa…
Hyper-threading doesn’t count for virtual SQL licensing
There’s a fair bit of confusion around licensing SQL that is virtualized and I have been getting questions…