View Pool Manager is a Fling that allows VMware View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups.
One of the biggest challenges VMware View administrators face in large deployments is desktop pool maintenance. Commonly each desktop pool has Active Directory security groups with the number of users a given desktop pool will support. As employees leave/join the organization, security groups require maintenance to ensure the number of users in each group correctly match the amount of desktops available. VMware View Pool Manager allows VMware View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups for large deployments.
This tool allow administrators to bind an Active Directory connection and specify:
* How many users there should exist per group (based on VMware View pool size)
* Floating or Persistent deployment
* Source Security Groups (all users to be distributed to pools)
* Destination Security Groups (All groups the users may be assigned to)
This tool help VMware View administrators to save hours of work adding, removing and maintaining users, desktop pools and security groups while ensuring each security group does not hold more users than the amount of desktops pool assigned to a given VMware View desktop pool.
Download View Pool Manager<http://labs.vmware.com/flings/view-pool-manager>
This fling was created by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici<http://twitter.com/andreleibovici>) at myvirtualcloud.net<http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=4864>
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
VMware Winnipeg Forum - April 30, 2013
VMware® invites you to join us on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 for a full day virtualization and cloud forum at The Fairmont Winnipeg.
Join an innovative group of VMware users to network, share ideas, and learn how to get the most out of your VMware solutions. See how you can build, extend, and manage your virtual infrastructure.
This is a great opportunity to meet with your Winnipeg based peers to discuss virtualization and cloud trends, best practices, and the latest technology! Join us following the event for a cocktail reception and chance to visit with VMware staff, customers, and partners.
| Agenda | |
| 08:00 a.m. | Registration & Breakfast |
| 08:45 a.m. | Welcome & Introductions |
| 08:55 a.m. | VMware Keynote |
| 09:25 a.m. | Customer Keynote |
| 10:20 a.m. | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Partner Breakout Presentations |
| 11:20 a.m. | Partner Breakout Presentations |
| 12:05 p.m. | Lunch and Keynote Presentation |
| 12:35 p.m. | Lunch Partner Keynote |
| 01:15 p.m. | Partner Forum & Exhibit Hall |
| 02:00 p.m. | VMware Breakout Presentations |
| 02:50 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 03:10 p.m. | Afternoon Partner Keynote Presentation |
| 04:00 p.m. | Cocktail Reception & Raffle Prizes |
Register today to join us for this free informative event. Space is limited, so respond as soon as possible to reserve your seat.
Register at: http://info.vmware.com/content/7339_REG
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Video - Horizon View HTML Access vs PCO-IP - Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL
Video - Horizon View HTML Access vs PCO-IP</blog/archives/2315-Video-Horizon-View-HTML-Access-vs-PCO-IP.html>
This video is recorded by Gunnar Berger, it shows the difference between Horizon View HTML Access and PCO-IP. The new HTML Access is part off the recently released feature-pack</blog/archives/2309-VMware-Horizon-View-5.2-Feature-Pack-1-Released.html>. It allows users to connect to virtual desktops from their Web browsers without having to install Horizon View Client software on their client systems. The HTML Access Agent, which runs on Horizon View desktops, is the component that enables users to use HTML Access to connect to their desktops. You must install the Remote Experience Agent with the HTML Access Agent on the desktops that you want to be accessed via HTML Access.
This video is recorded by Gunnar Berger, it shows the difference between Horizon View HTML Access and PCO-IP. The new HTML Access is part off the recently released feature-pack</blog/archives/2309-VMware-Horizon-View-5.2-Feature-Pack-1-Released.html>. It allows users to connect to virtual desktops from their Web browsers without having to install Horizon View Client software on their client systems. The HTML Access Agent, which runs on Horizon View desktops, is the component that enables users to use HTML Access to connect to their desktops. You must install the Remote Experience Agent with the HTML Access Agent on the desktops that you want to be accessed via HTML Access.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor-Manager 1.1 is out, sign up for it!
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1<http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vcenter/multi-hypervisor-manager> is a minor release with the following new capabilities:
* Migration of virtual machines from Hyper-V to ESX or ESXi hosts.
* Support for the latest Microsoft Hyper-V3 hypervisor (as well as the earlier versions).
* Increased scalability with regards to the number of supported third-party hosts to 50 (from 20 in MHM 1.0).
* Ability to provide custom certificates for the MHM server from the installer wizard.
* Multiple objects selection in the UI and a number of other usability improvements.
* Plus a number of server and client-side bug fixes.
If you have some Hyper-V hosts in your environment that you want to manage, or need to migrate from Hyper-V to vSphere, then make sure to download this nice vCenter add-on. It is in Beta, and I am certain the engineering team will appreciate all the feedback you can give.
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* Migration of virtual machines from Hyper-V to ESX or ESXi hosts.
* Support for the latest Microsoft Hyper-V3 hypervisor (as well as the earlier versions).
* Increased scalability with regards to the number of supported third-party hosts to 50 (from 20 in MHM 1.0).
* Ability to provide custom certificates for the MHM server from the installer wizard.
* Multiple objects selection in the UI and a number of other usability improvements.
* Plus a number of server and client-side bug fixes.
If you have some Hyper-V hosts in your environment that you want to manage, or need to migrate from Hyper-V to vSphere, then make sure to download this nice vCenter add-on. It is in Beta, and I am certain the engineering team will appreciate all the feedback you can give.
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Learn more about VMware Certification at VMwareCertificationVideos.com - Eric Sloof
Learn the value of VMware Certification and aspire to be exceptional. Discover how to get started on your journey to career success with VMWare certification at David Day, Director of Global Curriculum & Development, discusses the new cloud certification courses paths. He covers the professional, advanced, and expert role levels and the data center virtualization, cloud, end user computing, and cloud applications stacks. New in this strategy are opportunities to leverage skills/certification in one stack to move into another stack.This new website contains videos presented be Andy Cary and Undeleeb Din which can be very useful, they will tell you more about VMware's certification tracks and how to prepare for the exams.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1 Released - Eric Sloof
Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1 provides the following features and components:
Remote Experience Agent installer - The Remote Experience Agent installs Feature Pack components on Horizon View desktops, enhancing the remote desktop experience provided by View Agent 5.2. In Feature Pack 1, the installation program installs Unity Touch and the HTML Access Agent on Horizon View desktops. Both components are installed by default when you run the installer.
HTML Access Agent - HTML Access allows users to connect to virtual desktops from their Web browsers without having to install Horizon View Client software on their client systems. The HTML Access Agent, which runs on Horizon View desktops, is the component that enables users to use HTML Access to connect to their desktops. You must install the Remote Experience Agent with the HTML Access Agent on the desktops that you want to be accessed via HTML Access.
Unity Touch - Unity Touch enhances the way that mobile client users access a desktop. Instead of trying to manipulate a full desktop image on a small device screen, users can browse between apps and documents in a native mobile user interface without seeing the desktop. The VMware Horizon View Client documents for mobile devices provide more information about end user features provided by Unity Touch.
HTML Access installer - This installer configures View Connection Server instances to allow users to select HTML Access to connect to desktops. After you run the HTML Access installer, the View Portal displays an HTML Access icon in addition to the View Client icon.
You must run this installer if you want to use HTML Access to connect to desktops in a Horizon View deployment. Running this installer is also required if your users go through Horizon Workspace and select HTML Access to connect to desktops.
VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1 Release Notes<https://www.vmware.com/support/view52/doc/horizon-view-52-feature-pack-1-release-notes.html>VMware Horizon View Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iOS, and Android allow you to connect to your VMware Horizon View virtual desktop from your device of choice giving you on-the-go access from any location.
Download VMware Horizon View Clients 2.0<https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon_view_clients/2_0>
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Remote Experience Agent installer - The Remote Experience Agent installs Feature Pack components on Horizon View desktops, enhancing the remote desktop experience provided by View Agent 5.2. In Feature Pack 1, the installation program installs Unity Touch and the HTML Access Agent on Horizon View desktops. Both components are installed by default when you run the installer.
HTML Access Agent - HTML Access allows users to connect to virtual desktops from their Web browsers without having to install Horizon View Client software on their client systems. The HTML Access Agent, which runs on Horizon View desktops, is the component that enables users to use HTML Access to connect to their desktops. You must install the Remote Experience Agent with the HTML Access Agent on the desktops that you want to be accessed via HTML Access.
Unity Touch - Unity Touch enhances the way that mobile client users access a desktop. Instead of trying to manipulate a full desktop image on a small device screen, users can browse between apps and documents in a native mobile user interface without seeing the desktop. The VMware Horizon View Client documents for mobile devices provide more information about end user features provided by Unity Touch.
HTML Access installer - This installer configures View Connection Server instances to allow users to select HTML Access to connect to desktops. After you run the HTML Access installer, the View Portal displays an HTML Access icon in addition to the View Client icon.
You must run this installer if you want to use HTML Access to connect to desktops in a Horizon View deployment. Running this installer is also required if your users go through Horizon Workspace and select HTML Access to connect to desktops.
VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 1 Release Notes<https://www.vmware.com/support/view52/doc/horizon-view-52-feature-pack-1-release-notes.html>VMware Horizon View Clients for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Linux, iOS, and Android allow you to connect to your VMware Horizon View virtual desktop from your device of choice giving you on-the-go access from any location.
Download VMware Horizon View Clients 2.0<https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon_view_clients/2_0>
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Monday, March 11, 2013
2013 top VMware & virtualization blog voting results
2013 top VMware & virtualization blog voting results
So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were over 80 new blogs on the ballot this year and 4 new blogs to make the top 25. This year there was over 1300 votes compared to around 1200 last year. Voters were asked to pick their top 10 favorite blogs and them rank them from 1 to 10. The votes are weighted so a #1 vote is worth 10 points, a #2 vote is worth 9 points all the way down to a #10 vote being worth 1 point. The total points for each blog were added up to determine the results. It's a pretty time consuming process for me, some of it is automated but I still have to add up votes and drop them into a spreadsheet to determine the winners.
Be sure and watch the special vChat top blogger awards episode <http://www.vmwarevideos.com/vchat-episode-34-top-virtualization-blogs-2013-with-jtroyer> that we recorded with special guest John Troyer as we count up the top 25 winners with lots of color commentary. The vLaunchpad<http://vlp.vsphere-land.com/> and Planet vSphere-land<http://feed.vsphere-land.com/> will be updated soon to reflect the new voting results. Thank you everyone who voted and congratulations to the winners. With so many bloggers out there its a tough scene but I seriously encourage you all to keep at it, the longer you stick with it, the more people notice and will reward you with their vote. You guys are all winners, I know how hard it can be to find the time to blog but do know that your efforts are appreciated and your unselfish dedication makes a difference to a great many of people.
Special thanks to TrainSignal<http://www.trainsignal.com/> for sponsoring it again this year, be sure and check out their website for their new unlimited IT Training For Only $49 a Month.
Here are the overall voting results…
Blog Rank Previous Total Votes Total Points #1 Votes
Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping) 1 1 843 6210 231
Frank Denneman blog 2 5 582 3557 46
Scott Lowe blog 3 2 511 2999 25
NTPro.nl<http://NTPro.nl> (Eric Sloof) 4 3 501 2912 37
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac) 5 4 463 2418 33
Virtually Ghetto (William Lam) 6 8 399 2267 47
Mike Laverick (RTFM Education) 7 6 438 2135 5
Virtu-al (Alan Renouf) 8 7 387 1847 9
Cormac Hogan 9 New 279 1629 27
vSphere-land (Eric Siebert) 10 10 344 1476 12
Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche) 11 9 277 1247 8
Wahl Network (Chris Wahl) 12 51 173 1173 39
Virtual Storage Guy (Vaughn Stewart) 13 12 194 1168 38
My Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici) 14 17 159 958 17
LucD (Luc Dekens) 15 14 134 762 12
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget) 16 20 111 744 30
Datacenter Dude (Nick Howell) 17 New 114 743 13
Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat 18 25 162 693 3
Gabe's Virtual World (Gabe Van Zanten) 19 15 117 637 18
A vTexan (Tommy Trogden) 20 30 96 609 14
Long White Virtual Clouds (M. Webster) 21 New 110 606 9
Kendrick Coleman 22 37 128 598 6
TechHead (Simon Seagrave) 23 18 95 529 18
Derek Seaman's Blog 24 New 93 513 5
Brian Madden 25 24 97 506 2
Around the Storage Block (Calvin Zito) 26 33 93 489 5
The SLOG (Simon Long) 27 11 97 483 0
VCritical (Eric Gray) 28 26 80 478 13
Wikibon Blog 29 29 135 476 1
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch) 30 32 85 473 6
VMGuru.nl<http://VMGuru.nl> (Various) 31 19 83 463 19
vReference (Forbes Guthrie) 32 13 81 453 14
vSamurai (Christopher Wells) 33 39 94 445 7
IT 2.0 (Massimo Re Ferre) 34 48 84 427 3
Erik Bussink 35 New 58 398 12
2 VCP's (Jon Owings) 36 44 70 393 1
Chris Colotti's Blog 37 21 77 388 5
vClouds (Marco Broeken) 38 149 67 388 16
mwpreston dot net (Mike Preston) 39 125 63 377 8
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrew Mauro) 40 54 64 376 3
Technodrone (Maish) 41 45 59 366 13
Justin's IT Blog 42 49 62 361 14
Viktorious.nl<http://Viktorious.nl> (Viktor van den Berg) 43 New 61 360 13
vConsult (Duco Jaspars) 44 New 51 343 19
Punching Clouds (Rawlinson) 45 New 82 341 0
WoodITWork (Julian Wood) 46 60 73 341 5
Chris Wolf blog 47 36 88 337 0
Virtualize Tips (Brian Suhr) 48 47 51 325 6
The IT Hollow (Eric Shanks) 49 New 48 323 16
J Metz (J Michael Metz - Cisco) 50 28 75 319 0
The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson) 51 103 66 309 1
The Lone Sysadmin (Bob Plankers) 52 31 57 305 10
VMware Tips (Rick Scherer) 53 22 62 304 4
UP2V (Marcel van den Berg) 54 159 44 301 13
VMware Videos (David Davis) 55 38 53 297 8
A Crazy Penguin (Andy Wood) 56 70 53 294 1
Hypervisor.fr<http://Hypervisor.fr> 57 63 49 294 3
VirtualGeekCH (Various) 58 113 43 292 8
Nickapedia (Nicholas Weaver) 59 16 50 286 1
Virten.net<http://Virten.net> (Florian Grehl) 60 New 63 285 1
Storage Mojo (Robin Harris) 61 New 55 285 1
Virtual Langer (Jason Langer) 62 New 51 283 5
The Storage Architect (Chris Evans) 63 40 53 279 1
VDICloudn.nl<http://VDICloudn.nl> (Arjan Timmerman) 64 New 46 273 2
Mikes.eu<http://Mikes.eu> (Roy Mikes) 65 New 48 272 6
VM Guru (Scott Herold) 66 43 64 266 1
Storagezilla (EMC - Mark Twomey) 67 New 53 264 1
Pivot point (Scott Drummonds) 68 23 55 262 0
StorageIO (Greg Schulz) 69 46 52 259 2
Virtual Blog (David Hill) 70 New 58 259 4
Virtual Admin Notes (Anton Zhbankov) 71 71 43 257 12
The Virtualization Effect (NetApp) 72 New 65 255 3
vNinja (Christian Mohn) 73 57 60 243 1
Geek After Five (Jake Robinson) 74 New 45 240 2
The Lower Case W (Matt Liebowitz) 75 56 38 237 9
VMpros.nl<http://VMpros.nl> (Sander Daems) 76 80 39 233 8
What Would Dan Do (Dan Brinkmann) 77 74 43 231 7
50 mu (Rob Koper) 78 New 34 230 1
Hu's Blog (HDS - Hu Yoshida) 79 66 30 229 16
The Virtualization Practice (Various) 80 50 38 228 10
vExperienced (Edward Grigson) 81 118 43 224 4
VMwareMine 82 New 36 224 7
Planet VM (Tom Howarth) 83 68 48 221 2
Mike D's blog (Mike DiPetrillo) 84 35 45 220 1
Virtual Patel (Manish Patel) 85 New 48 217 3
Rickard Nobel 86 109 48 217 1
vTesseract (Josh Atwell) 87 73 49 213 2
Burdweiser (James Burd) 88 143 30 212 11
Backup Central (W. Curtis Preston) 89 65 43 211 1
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner) 90 156 41 210 3
Virt for Service Providers (Jeramiah Dooley) 91 123 40 208 1
View Yonder (Steve Chambers) 92 146 41 207 2
Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood) 93 185 38 205 1
VMFocus (Craig Kilborn) 94 New 30 205 12
Vuemuer.it<http://Vuemuer.it> (Luca Dell'Oca) 95 New 34 202 4
The Foglite (E. Rowe/A. Scorsone) 96 New 31 200 11
Tom Fojta's Blog 97 New 38 192 1
vFrank (Frank Brix Pedersen) 98 121 38 192 1
Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi) 99 New 32 192 11
Knudt Blog (Brian Knudtson) 100 140 39 192 1
VMdamentals (Erik Zandboer) 101 98 32 190 1
ICT-Freak.nl<http://ICT-Freak.nl> (Arne Fokkema) 102 76 37 188 1
Ken's Virtual Reality (Ken Cline) 103 152 36 186 0
vHorizon (Dale Scriven) 104 New 39 186 3
Aaron Delp Blog 105 59 42 186 1
VMware & Veeam Blog (Karel Novak) 106 New 32 185 7
vElemental (Clint Kitson) 107 130 47 185 1
Rickatron Blog (Rick Vanover) 108 58 34 183 4
Penguinpunk.net<http://Penguinpunk.net> (Dan Frith) 109 New 37 182 2
The VM Guy (Dave Lawrence) 110 69 40 181 3
Vinf.net<http://Vinf.net> (Simon Gallagher) 111 108 41 179 1
Ivo Beerens 112 83 41 178 1
Malaysia VM (Various) 113 166 37 177 1
VSpecialist (Michael Poore) 114 75 35 177 6
By The Bell (Steve Kaplan) 115 119 32 175 3
vCloud Info (Carlo Costanzo) 116 126 34 174 6
vDestination (Greg Stuart) 117 112 36 174 3
Clouds Of Change (Brian Gracely) 118 New 32 173 3
Jase's Place (Jase McCarty) 119 94 32 173 1
Arnim van Lieshout 120 61 36 170 1
Rational Survivability (Christofer Hoff) 121 85 29 170 2
vSential (James Bowling) 122 168 29 168 6
Virtualization Spotlight (P. Redknap) 123 107 24 165 12
VM Today (Joshua Townsend) 124 122 31 165 2
A Day In The Life (Adam Baum) 125 99 37 164 0
ValCo Labs (Josh Coen) 126 167 32 164 1
Virtual Noob (Chad King) 127 117 41 162 0
Demitasse (Alastair Cooke) 128 131 31 162 3
The Data Center Overlords (Tony Bourke) 129 100 28 161 1
Virtual Tech (Dan Fallon) 130 New 33 159 0
yoyoclouds (Yohan Wadia) 131 New 40 159 2
HyperVizor (Hany Michael) 132 27 32 158 4
Messaging-Virtualization (Andrey Pogosyan) 133 New 29 158 3
Run-virtual (Richard Garsthagen) 134 105 35 158 1
vNoob (Conrad Ramos) 135 163 36 158 2
Virtual Future (Sven Huisman) 136 153 31 157 2
Virtual Planet (Ricky El-Qasem) 137 97 29 155 3
vNugglets (Allen Crawford) 138 New 33 155 1
Deep Storage (Howard Marks) 139 New 31 154 0
Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer) 140 137 38 154 2
Virtual Insanity (S. Sauer/A. Sweemer) 141 72 31 152 0
Ray On Storage (Ray Lucchesi) 142 53 33 151 0
VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz) 143 162 25 149 7
VM Dude (Frederic Martin) 144 New 31 145 2
GestaltIT (Various) 145 34 24 141 2
Jonathan Medd's Blog 146 91 30 141 3
Peeters Online (Hugo Peeters) 147 161 32 140 0
Peacon Blog (James Pearce) 148 136 26 140 1
Double Cloud (Steve Jin) 149 67 21 139 1
Running-System (Andi Lesslhumer) 150 New 21 138 3
vXpress (Sunny Dua) 151 New 31 137 1
MY Vmware Blog (Jeremy Chivers) 152 New 35 136 0
Poshoholic (Kirk Munro) 153 116 27 135 1
The HyperAdvisor (Antone Heyward) 154 102 30 135 1
Hans De Leenheer 155 New 21 132 1
Gerbens Blog (G. Kloosterman) 156 173 22 131 1
Another Day In IT (Bobby Stampfle) 157 New 28 128 1
Dmitry's PowerBlog 158 New 24 128 0
Storagebod (Martin Glassborow) 159 82 24 127 1
Adventures in a Virtual World (Paul Grevink) 160 New 27 127 2
Aravind Sivaraman 161 New 28 126 0
Storage Soup (Tech Target) 162 New 27 126 0
VirtualClouds (Hugo Strydom) 163 New 31 125 0
Phil the Virtualizer (Philip Ditzel) 164 New 28 124 2
DiscoPosse (Eric Wright) 165 New 20 123 2
vmDK (Damian Karlson) 166 96 33 123 1
Virtual Bits & Bytes (Niels Engelen) 167 New 27 122 1
Everyday Virtualization (Rick Vanover) 168 90 21 122 1
The Eager Zero (Michael Stump) 169 New 23 119 3
Thankfully the RAID is Gone (G. Chapman) 170 New 19 119 1
The SAN Man (Archie Hendryx) 171 New 21 117 2
Stuart Radnidge 172 165 28 116 1
Virtualised Reality (Barry Coombs) 173 93 25 116 2
Robert van den Nieuwendijk's Blog 174 145 22 115 2
VMware Training & Certification (S. Vessey) 175 64 30 114 1
Andi Mann - Ubergeek 176 92 23 114 4
SOS Tech (Josh Andrews) 177 New 23 111 1
Tim's IT Blog (Tim Smith) 178 New 24 111 3
Virtual VCP (Rynardt Spies) 179 87 24 111 1
The Solutions Architect (Michael Letschin) 180 New 21 110 1
ThinkCloud.nl<http://ThinkCloud.nl> (Martijn Baecke) 181 164 24 110 0
Stu McHugh's Virtualisation Blog 182 New 25 105 2
Infoworld Virtualization Report (D. Marshall) 183 124 18 105 4
Virtualization Eh (Mark Achtemichuk) 184 New 21 99 0
VM/ETC (Rich Brambley) 185 41 26 97 0
Everything Virtual (Simon Davies) 186 88 18 97 3
Blue Gears (Edward Haletky) 187 139 20 96 0
Shogan.tech (Sean Duffy) 188 New 19 96 0
Enterprise Admins (Brian Wuchner) 189 183 17 95 1
GeekSilver's Blog 190 184 23 95 0
Storage Tuning (Jamon Bowen) 191 New 22 95 0
Jume (Bouke Groenescheij) 192 154 17 94 0
Virtual Management (Marco Giuricin) 193 New 21 94 0
Ruptured Monkey (Nigel Poulton) 194 55 17 93 1
Juanma's Blog (Juan Manuel) 195 81 17 92 2
M80ARM - Virt. Warrior (Michael Armstrong) 196 New 22 92 0
Virtually Mike Brown (Mike Brown) 197 New 27 92 0
Cloud-Buddy (Bilal Hashmi) 198 133 18 91 1
Virtual SMB (Will Huber) 199 115 19 91 1
Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling) 200 148 20 91 1
Orchestrate This! (Magnus Ullberg) 201 New 18 90 0
VMexplorer (Matt Mancini) 202 142 16 90 1
blog.rack.org.au<http://blog.rack.org.au> (Craig Waters) 203 New 19 89 1
VM Trooper (Trevor Roberts) 204 New 18 89 1
VM-Ice (Larus Hjartarson) 205 New 19 89 0
Default Reasoning (Marek Z) 206 New 17 88 1
VirtuallyLG (Lorenzo Galelli) 207 155 21 88 0
VMAdmin (Fletcher Cocquyt) 208 New 25 88 0
VM-blog.info (Mourad) 209 New 20 87 0
VMworld.net<http://VMworld.net> (Andi Lesslhumer) 210 89 21 87 0
VMBulletin (Rick Schlander) 211 111 18 87 2
vPourchet (Valentin Pourchet) 212 New 19 86 1
VMware Admins (Eric Sarakaitis) 213 132 22 85 0
ITuda (Lieven D'hoore) 214 New 14 83 1
DeinosCloud (Didier Pironet) 215 181 15 83 1
It's Just Another Layer (Ian K.) 216 175 17 83 2
Cosonok's IT Blog (David Cookson) 217 New 17 81 0
I'm Tellin' Ya Now! (Mike Foley) 218 New 19 81 1
VM Admin (Andy Barnes) 219 114 18 79 1
Elastic Sky (Paul McSharry) 220 New 15 78 0
vKnowledge.net<http://vKnowledge.net> (Mario Mack) 221 New 20 77 0
VMwire (Hugo Phan) 222 New 17 77 1
Virtual Potholes (AJ Kuftic) 223 New 16 77 2
VMwise (Kanuj Behl) 224 160 13 76 2
Virtualization Buster (J. Franconi) 225 134 11 75 2
Virtually Speaking (Dan Kusnetzky) 226 157 17 71 0
VMnick (Nick Fritsch) 227 New 15 70 1
The Virtual Headline (Pete Del Rey) 228 New 12 66 2
vReality (Tomi Hakala) 229 187 17 65 0
Cloud Computing Infrastructure (Bill Carter) 230 New 10 61 0
Storage Nerve (Devang Panchigar) 231 42 14 60 0
Cloud Jock (Todd Mace) 232 New 10 59 1
Eprich (Paul Richards) 233 186 11 59 0
Eck Tech (Adam Eckerle) 234 New 11 56 0
Virtualizing the D.C. (Tony Wilburn) 235 172 14 55 0
InfoTech Consulting Blog (Yendis Lambert) 236 New 13 52 1
doOdzZZ's Notes (Abdullah Abdullah) 237 New 11 50 0
VMwarewolf (Richard Blythe) 238 171 13 47 0
TechProsaic (Hal Rottenberg) 239 127 10 47 1
Virtualization Information (S. Snowden) 240 110 7 44 3
Roger Lund IT/VMware Blog (Roger Lund) 241 170 10 35 0
SearchServerVirtualization Blog (Various) 242 86 10 35 0
Virtualization Team (Eiad Al-Aqqad) 243 101 8 25 0
And here are the top blog category winners…
Favorite Storage Blog Votes
Cormac Hogan 319
Virtual Geek 291
Virtual Storage Guy 265
Around the Storage Block 123
Hus Blog 55
Stephen Foskett 53
Jases Place 45
Hans De Leenheer 43
Wikibon Blog 31
Penguinpunk.net<http://Penguinpunk.net> 28
None of these listed here 121
Favorite Scripting Blog Votes
Virtually Ghetto 282
Virtu-al 215
LucD 183
VM Dude 65
VMpros.nl<http://VMpros.nl> 62
vNoob 61
Technodrone 50
Jonathan Medd 42
Phil the Virtualizer 36
Enterprise Admins 34
DiscoPosse 32
Shogan.tech 23
Robert van den Nieuwendijk 22
None of these listed here 268
Favorite Podcast Votes
vBrownBag 323
Chinwag 127
vChat 124
The CloudCast 82
Get Scripting 62
vCatchup 62
Virtualization Security Roundtable 51
Data Center Insiders 50
Adapting IT 46
CloudViews Unplugged 46
APAC Virtualization Roundtable 31
None of these listed here 371
Favorite New Blog Votes
Cormac Hogan 343
Mike Laverick 155
The IT Hollow 79
Viktorious.nl<http://Viktorious.nl> 74
Virtual Patel 74
VMware & Veeam Blog 67
VMFocus 59
My VMware Blog 40
vKnowledge.net<http://vKnowledge.net> 31
Another Day in IT 30
Running-System 27
blog.rack.org.au<http://blog.rack.org.au> 22
vXpress 22
Cloud Jock 20
Virten.net<http://Virten.net> 19
Aravind Sivaraman 18
Messaging-Virtualization 18
doOdzZZ's Notes 9
None of these listed here 265
Favorite Independent Blogger Votes
Wahl Network 153
NTPro.nl<http://NTPro.nl> 145
ESX Virtualization 61
VMGuru.nl<http://VMGuru.nl> 58
Mikes.eu<http://Mikes.eu> 52
vReference 49
LucD 48
Technodrone 39
Erik Bussink 34
WoodITWork 34
Derek Seaman 32
The Saffa Geek 31
Viktorious.nl<http://Viktorious.nl> 26
VM Dude 26
Another Day in IT 24
What Would Dan Do 24
vCloud Info 23
vInfrastructure Blog 23
vExperienced 21
VirtualGeekCH 21
VMpros.nl<http://VMpros.nl> 21
VMware & Veeam Blog 21
By The Bell 20
Virtual Aleph 17
vNoob 17
VSpecialist 17
Penguinpunk.net<http://Penguinpunk.net> 15
VMFocus 14
mwpreston dot net 13
Robert van den Nieuwendijk 13
vDestination 12
Virtual Langer 12
VMware Front Experience 12
Enterprise Admins 10
blog.rack.org.au<http://blog.rack.org.au> 9
Vuemuer.it<http://Vuemuer.it> 9
DiscoPosse 8
ValCo Labs 8
Virtualised Reality 8
Cloud Jock 7
Default Reasoning 7
Jonathan Medd 6
My VMware Blog 3
Shogan.tech 3
Virten.net<http://Virten.net> 3
None of these listed here 166
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Congrats everyone - @MikeYallits
So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were over 80 new blogs on the ballot this year and 4 new blogs to make the top 25. This year there was over 1300 votes compared to around 1200 last year. Voters were asked to pick their top 10 favorite blogs and them rank them from 1 to 10. The votes are weighted so a #1 vote is worth 10 points, a #2 vote is worth 9 points all the way down to a #10 vote being worth 1 point. The total points for each blog were added up to determine the results. It's a pretty time consuming process for me, some of it is automated but I still have to add up votes and drop them into a spreadsheet to determine the winners.
Be sure and watch the special vChat top blogger awards episode <http://www.vmwarevideos.com/vchat-episode-34-top-virtualization-blogs-2013-with-jtroyer> that we recorded with special guest John Troyer as we count up the top 25 winners with lots of color commentary. The vLaunchpad<http://vlp.vsphere-land.com/> and Planet vSphere-land<http://feed.vsphere-land.com/> will be updated soon to reflect the new voting results. Thank you everyone who voted and congratulations to the winners. With so many bloggers out there its a tough scene but I seriously encourage you all to keep at it, the longer you stick with it, the more people notice and will reward you with their vote. You guys are all winners, I know how hard it can be to find the time to blog but do know that your efforts are appreciated and your unselfish dedication makes a difference to a great many of people.
Special thanks to TrainSignal<http://www.trainsignal.com/> for sponsoring it again this year, be sure and check out their website for their new unlimited IT Training For Only $49 a Month.
Here are the overall voting results…
Blog Rank Previous Total Votes Total Points #1 Votes
Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping) 1 1 843 6210 231
Frank Denneman blog 2 5 582 3557 46
Scott Lowe blog 3 2 511 2999 25
NTPro.nl<http://NTPro.nl> (Eric Sloof) 4 3 501 2912 37
Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac) 5 4 463 2418 33
Virtually Ghetto (William Lam) 6 8 399 2267 47
Mike Laverick (RTFM Education) 7 6 438 2135 5
Virtu-al (Alan Renouf) 8 7 387 1847 9
Cormac Hogan 9 New 279 1629 27
vSphere-land (Eric Siebert) 10 10 344 1476 12
Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche) 11 9 277 1247 8
Wahl Network (Chris Wahl) 12 51 173 1173 39
Virtual Storage Guy (Vaughn Stewart) 13 12 194 1168 38
My Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici) 14 17 159 958 17
LucD (Luc Dekens) 15 14 134 762 12
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget) 16 20 111 744 30
Datacenter Dude (Nick Howell) 17 New 114 743 13
Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat 18 25 162 693 3
Gabe's Virtual World (Gabe Van Zanten) 19 15 117 637 18
A vTexan (Tommy Trogden) 20 30 96 609 14
Long White Virtual Clouds (M. Webster) 21 New 110 606 9
Kendrick Coleman 22 37 128 598 6
TechHead (Simon Seagrave) 23 18 95 529 18
Derek Seaman's Blog 24 New 93 513 5
Brian Madden 25 24 97 506 2
Around the Storage Block (Calvin Zito) 26 33 93 489 5
The SLOG (Simon Long) 27 11 97 483 0
VCritical (Eric Gray) 28 26 80 478 13
Wikibon Blog 29 29 135 476 1
Professional VMware (Cody Bunch) 30 32 85 473 6
VMGuru.nl<http://VMGuru.nl> (Various) 31 19 83 463 19
vReference (Forbes Guthrie) 32 13 81 453 14
vSamurai (Christopher Wells) 33 39 94 445 7
IT 2.0 (Massimo Re Ferre) 34 48 84 427 3
Erik Bussink 35 New 58 398 12
2 VCP's (Jon Owings) 36 44 70 393 1
Chris Colotti's Blog 37 21 77 388 5
vClouds (Marco Broeken) 38 149 67 388 16
mwpreston dot net (Mike Preston) 39 125 63 377 8
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrew Mauro) 40 54 64 376 3
Technodrone (Maish) 41 45 59 366 13
Justin's IT Blog 42 49 62 361 14
Viktorious.nl<http://Viktorious.nl> (Viktor van den Berg) 43 New 61 360 13
vConsult (Duco Jaspars) 44 New 51 343 19
Punching Clouds (Rawlinson) 45 New 82 341 0
WoodITWork (Julian Wood) 46 60 73 341 5
Chris Wolf blog 47 36 88 337 0
Virtualize Tips (Brian Suhr) 48 47 51 325 6
The IT Hollow (Eric Shanks) 49 New 48 323 16
J Metz (J Michael Metz - Cisco) 50 28 75 319 0
The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson) 51 103 66 309 1
The Lone Sysadmin (Bob Plankers) 52 31 57 305 10
VMware Tips (Rick Scherer) 53 22 62 304 4
UP2V (Marcel van den Berg) 54 159 44 301 13
VMware Videos (David Davis) 55 38 53 297 8
A Crazy Penguin (Andy Wood) 56 70 53 294 1
Hypervisor.fr<http://Hypervisor.fr> 57 63 49 294 3
VirtualGeekCH (Various) 58 113 43 292 8
Nickapedia (Nicholas Weaver) 59 16 50 286 1
Virten.net<http://Virten.net> (Florian Grehl) 60 New 63 285 1
Storage Mojo (Robin Harris) 61 New 55 285 1
Virtual Langer (Jason Langer) 62 New 51 283 5
The Storage Architect (Chris Evans) 63 40 53 279 1
VDICloudn.nl<http://VDICloudn.nl> (Arjan Timmerman) 64 New 46 273 2
Mikes.eu<http://Mikes.eu> (Roy Mikes) 65 New 48 272 6
VM Guru (Scott Herold) 66 43 64 266 1
Storagezilla (EMC - Mark Twomey) 67 New 53 264 1
Pivot point (Scott Drummonds) 68 23 55 262 0
StorageIO (Greg Schulz) 69 46 52 259 2
Virtual Blog (David Hill) 70 New 58 259 4
Virtual Admin Notes (Anton Zhbankov) 71 71 43 257 12
The Virtualization Effect (NetApp) 72 New 65 255 3
vNinja (Christian Mohn) 73 57 60 243 1
Geek After Five (Jake Robinson) 74 New 45 240 2
The Lower Case W (Matt Liebowitz) 75 56 38 237 9
VMpros.nl<http://VMpros.nl> (Sander Daems) 76 80 39 233 8
What Would Dan Do (Dan Brinkmann) 77 74 43 231 7
50 mu (Rob Koper) 78 New 34 230 1
Hu's Blog (HDS - Hu Yoshida) 79 66 30 229 16
The Virtualization Practice (Various) 80 50 38 228 10
vExperienced (Edward Grigson) 81 118 43 224 4
VMwareMine 82 New 36 224 7
Planet VM (Tom Howarth) 83 68 48 221 2
Mike D's blog (Mike DiPetrillo) 84 35 45 220 1
Virtual Patel (Manish Patel) 85 New 48 217 3
Rickard Nobel 86 109 48 217 1
vTesseract (Josh Atwell) 87 73 49 213 2
Burdweiser (James Burd) 88 143 30 212 11
Backup Central (W. Curtis Preston) 89 65 43 211 1
IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner) 90 156 41 210 3
Virt for Service Providers (Jeramiah Dooley) 91 123 40 208 1
View Yonder (Steve Chambers) 92 146 41 207 2
Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood) 93 185 38 205 1
VMFocus (Craig Kilborn) 94 New 30 205 12
Vuemuer.it<http://Vuemuer.it> (Luca Dell'Oca) 95 New 34 202 4
The Foglite (E. Rowe/A. Scorsone) 96 New 31 200 11
Tom Fojta's Blog 97 New 38 192 1
vFrank (Frank Brix Pedersen) 98 121 38 192 1
Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi) 99 New 32 192 11
Knudt Blog (Brian Knudtson) 100 140 39 192 1
VMdamentals (Erik Zandboer) 101 98 32 190 1
ICT-Freak.nl<http://ICT-Freak.nl> (Arne Fokkema) 102 76 37 188 1
Ken's Virtual Reality (Ken Cline) 103 152 36 186 0
vHorizon (Dale Scriven) 104 New 39 186 3
Aaron Delp Blog 105 59 42 186 1
VMware & Veeam Blog (Karel Novak) 106 New 32 185 7
vElemental (Clint Kitson) 107 130 47 185 1
Rickatron Blog (Rick Vanover) 108 58 34 183 4
Penguinpunk.net<http://Penguinpunk.net> (Dan Frith) 109 New 37 182 2
The VM Guy (Dave Lawrence) 110 69 40 181 3
Vinf.net<http://Vinf.net> (Simon Gallagher) 111 108 41 179 1
Ivo Beerens 112 83 41 178 1
Malaysia VM (Various) 113 166 37 177 1
VSpecialist (Michael Poore) 114 75 35 177 6
By The Bell (Steve Kaplan) 115 119 32 175 3
vCloud Info (Carlo Costanzo) 116 126 34 174 6
vDestination (Greg Stuart) 117 112 36 174 3
Clouds Of Change (Brian Gracely) 118 New 32 173 3
Jase's Place (Jase McCarty) 119 94 32 173 1
Arnim van Lieshout 120 61 36 170 1
Rational Survivability (Christofer Hoff) 121 85 29 170 2
vSential (James Bowling) 122 168 29 168 6
Virtualization Spotlight (P. Redknap) 123 107 24 165 12
VM Today (Joshua Townsend) 124 122 31 165 2
A Day In The Life (Adam Baum) 125 99 37 164 0
ValCo Labs (Josh Coen) 126 167 32 164 1
Virtual Noob (Chad King) 127 117 41 162 0
Demitasse (Alastair Cooke) 128 131 31 162 3
The Data Center Overlords (Tony Bourke) 129 100 28 161 1
Virtual Tech (Dan Fallon) 130 New 33 159 0
yoyoclouds (Yohan Wadia) 131 New 40 159 2
HyperVizor (Hany Michael) 132 27 32 158 4
Messaging-Virtualization (Andrey Pogosyan) 133 New 29 158 3
Run-virtual (Richard Garsthagen) 134 105 35 158 1
vNoob (Conrad Ramos) 135 163 36 158 2
Virtual Future (Sven Huisman) 136 153 31 157 2
Virtual Planet (Ricky El-Qasem) 137 97 29 155 3
vNugglets (Allen Crawford) 138 New 33 155 1
Deep Storage (Howard Marks) 139 New 31 154 0
Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer) 140 137 38 154 2
Virtual Insanity (S. Sauer/A. Sweemer) 141 72 31 152 0
Ray On Storage (Ray Lucchesi) 142 53 33 151 0
VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz) 143 162 25 149 7
VM Dude (Frederic Martin) 144 New 31 145 2
GestaltIT (Various) 145 34 24 141 2
Jonathan Medd's Blog 146 91 30 141 3
Peeters Online (Hugo Peeters) 147 161 32 140 0
Peacon Blog (James Pearce) 148 136 26 140 1
Double Cloud (Steve Jin) 149 67 21 139 1
Running-System (Andi Lesslhumer) 150 New 21 138 3
vXpress (Sunny Dua) 151 New 31 137 1
MY Vmware Blog (Jeremy Chivers) 152 New 35 136 0
Poshoholic (Kirk Munro) 153 116 27 135 1
The HyperAdvisor (Antone Heyward) 154 102 30 135 1
Hans De Leenheer 155 New 21 132 1
Gerbens Blog (G. Kloosterman) 156 173 22 131 1
Another Day In IT (Bobby Stampfle) 157 New 28 128 1
Dmitry's PowerBlog 158 New 24 128 0
Storagebod (Martin Glassborow) 159 82 24 127 1
Adventures in a Virtual World (Paul Grevink) 160 New 27 127 2
Aravind Sivaraman 161 New 28 126 0
Storage Soup (Tech Target) 162 New 27 126 0
VirtualClouds (Hugo Strydom) 163 New 31 125 0
Phil the Virtualizer (Philip Ditzel) 164 New 28 124 2
DiscoPosse (Eric Wright) 165 New 20 123 2
vmDK (Damian Karlson) 166 96 33 123 1
Virtual Bits & Bytes (Niels Engelen) 167 New 27 122 1
Everyday Virtualization (Rick Vanover) 168 90 21 122 1
The Eager Zero (Michael Stump) 169 New 23 119 3
Thankfully the RAID is Gone (G. Chapman) 170 New 19 119 1
The SAN Man (Archie Hendryx) 171 New 21 117 2
Stuart Radnidge 172 165 28 116 1
Virtualised Reality (Barry Coombs) 173 93 25 116 2
Robert van den Nieuwendijk's Blog 174 145 22 115 2
VMware Training & Certification (S. Vessey) 175 64 30 114 1
Andi Mann - Ubergeek 176 92 23 114 4
SOS Tech (Josh Andrews) 177 New 23 111 1
Tim's IT Blog (Tim Smith) 178 New 24 111 3
Virtual VCP (Rynardt Spies) 179 87 24 111 1
The Solutions Architect (Michael Letschin) 180 New 21 110 1
ThinkCloud.nl<http://ThinkCloud.nl> (Martijn Baecke) 181 164 24 110 0
Stu McHugh's Virtualisation Blog 182 New 25 105 2
Infoworld Virtualization Report (D. Marshall) 183 124 18 105 4
Virtualization Eh (Mark Achtemichuk) 184 New 21 99 0
VM/ETC (Rich Brambley) 185 41 26 97 0
Everything Virtual (Simon Davies) 186 88 18 97 3
Blue Gears (Edward Haletky) 187 139 20 96 0
Shogan.tech (Sean Duffy) 188 New 19 96 0
Enterprise Admins (Brian Wuchner) 189 183 17 95 1
GeekSilver's Blog 190 184 23 95 0
Storage Tuning (Jamon Bowen) 191 New 22 95 0
Jume (Bouke Groenescheij) 192 154 17 94 0
Virtual Management (Marco Giuricin) 193 New 21 94 0
Ruptured Monkey (Nigel Poulton) 194 55 17 93 1
Juanma's Blog (Juan Manuel) 195 81 17 92 2
M80ARM - Virt. Warrior (Michael Armstrong) 196 New 22 92 0
Virtually Mike Brown (Mike Brown) 197 New 27 92 0
Cloud-Buddy (Bilal Hashmi) 198 133 18 91 1
Virtual SMB (Will Huber) 199 115 19 91 1
Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling) 200 148 20 91 1
Orchestrate This! (Magnus Ullberg) 201 New 18 90 0
VMexplorer (Matt Mancini) 202 142 16 90 1
blog.rack.org.au<http://blog.rack.org.au> (Craig Waters) 203 New 19 89 1
VM Trooper (Trevor Roberts) 204 New 18 89 1
VM-Ice (Larus Hjartarson) 205 New 19 89 0
Default Reasoning (Marek Z) 206 New 17 88 1
VirtuallyLG (Lorenzo Galelli) 207 155 21 88 0
VMAdmin (Fletcher Cocquyt) 208 New 25 88 0
VM-blog.info (Mourad) 209 New 20 87 0
VMworld.net<http://VMworld.net> (Andi Lesslhumer) 210 89 21 87 0
VMBulletin (Rick Schlander) 211 111 18 87 2
vPourchet (Valentin Pourchet) 212 New 19 86 1
VMware Admins (Eric Sarakaitis) 213 132 22 85 0
ITuda (Lieven D'hoore) 214 New 14 83 1
DeinosCloud (Didier Pironet) 215 181 15 83 1
It's Just Another Layer (Ian K.) 216 175 17 83 2
Cosonok's IT Blog (David Cookson) 217 New 17 81 0
I'm Tellin' Ya Now! (Mike Foley) 218 New 19 81 1
VM Admin (Andy Barnes) 219 114 18 79 1
Elastic Sky (Paul McSharry) 220 New 15 78 0
vKnowledge.net<http://vKnowledge.net> (Mario Mack) 221 New 20 77 0
VMwire (Hugo Phan) 222 New 17 77 1
Virtual Potholes (AJ Kuftic) 223 New 16 77 2
VMwise (Kanuj Behl) 224 160 13 76 2
Virtualization Buster (J. Franconi) 225 134 11 75 2
Virtually Speaking (Dan Kusnetzky) 226 157 17 71 0
VMnick (Nick Fritsch) 227 New 15 70 1
The Virtual Headline (Pete Del Rey) 228 New 12 66 2
vReality (Tomi Hakala) 229 187 17 65 0
Cloud Computing Infrastructure (Bill Carter) 230 New 10 61 0
Storage Nerve (Devang Panchigar) 231 42 14 60 0
Cloud Jock (Todd Mace) 232 New 10 59 1
Eprich (Paul Richards) 233 186 11 59 0
Eck Tech (Adam Eckerle) 234 New 11 56 0
Virtualizing the D.C. (Tony Wilburn) 235 172 14 55 0
InfoTech Consulting Blog (Yendis Lambert) 236 New 13 52 1
doOdzZZ's Notes (Abdullah Abdullah) 237 New 11 50 0
VMwarewolf (Richard Blythe) 238 171 13 47 0
TechProsaic (Hal Rottenberg) 239 127 10 47 1
Virtualization Information (S. Snowden) 240 110 7 44 3
Roger Lund IT/VMware Blog (Roger Lund) 241 170 10 35 0
SearchServerVirtualization Blog (Various) 242 86 10 35 0
Virtualization Team (Eiad Al-Aqqad) 243 101 8 25 0
And here are the top blog category winners…
Favorite Storage Blog Votes
Cormac Hogan 319
Virtual Geek 291
Virtual Storage Guy 265
Around the Storage Block 123
Hus Blog 55
Stephen Foskett 53
Jases Place 45
Hans De Leenheer 43
Wikibon Blog 31
Penguinpunk.net<http://Penguinpunk.net> 28
None of these listed here 121
Favorite Scripting Blog Votes
Virtually Ghetto 282
Virtu-al 215
LucD 183
VM Dude 65
VMpros.nl<http://VMpros.nl> 62
vNoob 61
Technodrone 50
Jonathan Medd 42
Phil the Virtualizer 36
Enterprise Admins 34
DiscoPosse 32
Shogan.tech 23
Robert van den Nieuwendijk 22
None of these listed here 268
Favorite Podcast Votes
vBrownBag 323
Chinwag 127
vChat 124
The CloudCast 82
Get Scripting 62
vCatchup 62
Virtualization Security Roundtable 51
Data Center Insiders 50
Adapting IT 46
CloudViews Unplugged 46
APAC Virtualization Roundtable 31
None of these listed here 371
Favorite New Blog Votes
Cormac Hogan 343
Mike Laverick 155
The IT Hollow 79
Viktorious.nl<http://Viktorious.nl> 74
Virtual Patel 74
VMware & Veeam Blog 67
VMFocus 59
My VMware Blog 40
vKnowledge.net<http://vKnowledge.net> 31
Another Day in IT 30
Running-System 27
blog.rack.org.au<http://blog.rack.org.au> 22
vXpress 22
Cloud Jock 20
Virten.net<http://Virten.net> 19
Aravind Sivaraman 18
Messaging-Virtualization 18
doOdzZZ's Notes 9
None of these listed here 265
Favorite Independent Blogger Votes
Wahl Network 153
NTPro.nl<http://NTPro.nl> 145
ESX Virtualization 61
VMGuru.nl<http://VMGuru.nl> 58
Mikes.eu<http://Mikes.eu> 52
vReference 49
LucD 48
Technodrone 39
Erik Bussink 34
WoodITWork 34
Derek Seaman 32
The Saffa Geek 31
Viktorious.nl<http://Viktorious.nl> 26
VM Dude 26
Another Day in IT 24
What Would Dan Do 24
vCloud Info 23
vInfrastructure Blog 23
vExperienced 21
VirtualGeekCH 21
VMpros.nl<http://VMpros.nl> 21
VMware & Veeam Blog 21
By The Bell 20
Virtual Aleph 17
vNoob 17
VSpecialist 17
Penguinpunk.net<http://Penguinpunk.net> 15
VMFocus 14
mwpreston dot net 13
Robert van den Nieuwendijk 13
vDestination 12
Virtual Langer 12
VMware Front Experience 12
Enterprise Admins 10
blog.rack.org.au<http://blog.rack.org.au> 9
Vuemuer.it<http://Vuemuer.it> 9
DiscoPosse 8
ValCo Labs 8
Virtualised Reality 8
Cloud Jock 7
Default Reasoning 7
Jonathan Medd 6
My VMware Blog 3
Shogan.tech 3
Virten.net<http://Virten.net> 3
None of these listed here 166
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Congrats everyone - @MikeYallits
Download VMware Network Virtualization Design Guide
I am happy to announce the availability of the VMware Network Virtualization Design Guide<http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10354>. This guide provides an overview of the key attributes of network virtualization technology. Then the paper discusses different components of VMware's Network virtualization solution and explains VXLAN in detail. Finally, the design considerations section discusses couple of real life deployments and provides guidelines on how to prepare VXLAN fabric. On top of this VXLAN fabric, customers can now create and delete logical Layer 2 networks through few clicks, providing them the software defined network capability.
Please download this paper from here<http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10354>.
I will be happy to address any of your questions or comments.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Horizon Workspace - Deployment Takeaways and Notes
I started deploying the Horizon Workspace .OVA into my home lab last night and came up with a few notes that I would like to bring to everyone’s attention.
First off, everyone review the VMware Horizon Workspace Reviews Guide before deploying (unfortunately, it was not released when I tried to deploy mine). It can be found at:
Second, take special note of Table 2: Virtual Appliance Minimum Hardware Requirements of the guide (below):
Notice the massive amount of RAM that is required to run all 5 of the VA’s. 14GB isn’t allot of RAM in a production environment, but my poor little lab only has 16 GBs (which BTW is enough to run 4 Nested ESXi Hosts, 2 VC’s, View Connection and Security Servers, 5 Win 7 VDI desktops, a OpenFiler VSA, a Windows Domain Controller and a Veeam Backup Proxy) which didn't seem to be enough to run these 5 VA’s, a DC and a VC.
The other thing that you need to take away from this chart is that you will require 5 static IP addresses, which may or may not be an issue in your environment.
I’ll be rolling back my vRAM in both my DC and my VC tonight and trying the deployment / configuration again this evening, will let you know how it goes once its completed and functional.
@MikeYallits
New Technical White Paper - Horizon Workspace 1.0 Reviewer's Guide
The VMware Horizon Suite 1.0 is designed for today's mobile workforce. Users want to access business assets from anywhere, anytime, and from any device. IT needs to keep assets secure. With the Horizon Suite, IT has control, and users have choice.
The Horizon Suite includes VMware Horizon Workspace, VMware Horizon View, and VMware Horizon Mirage. Horizon Workspace provides secure, single sign-on to applications, data, and virtual desktops from any mobile device or computer.
Horizon View provides users with remote access to secure virtual desktops stored in the datacenter. End users can access their Horizon View desktops through Horizon Workspace. Horizon Mirage centrally manages desktop images of physical computers at the same time as it provides end users with local execution power and user personalization of the desktop. Users on Mirage-managed desktops can access their business assets through Horizon Workspace.
This document is a guided walkthrough of VMware Horizon Workspace, including a step-by-step perspective into technical architecture, use cases and initial installation, configuration, and integration. Here we will discuss the separate components of VMware Horizon Workspace, their interoperability with each other, and external integration with other products in the VMware Horizon Suite such as VMware Horizon View and VMware ThinApp.
VMware will show you how to set up a basic VMware Horizon Workspace environment, and the principles of scaling and integrating this deployment with your existing enterprise infrastructure.
VMware Horizon Workspace Reviewer's Guide<http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-horizon-workspace-reviewers-guide.pdf>
Download VMware Horizon Suite 1.0<https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon_suite/1_0>
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The Horizon Suite includes VMware Horizon Workspace, VMware Horizon View, and VMware Horizon Mirage. Horizon Workspace provides secure, single sign-on to applications, data, and virtual desktops from any mobile device or computer.
Horizon View provides users with remote access to secure virtual desktops stored in the datacenter. End users can access their Horizon View desktops through Horizon Workspace. Horizon Mirage centrally manages desktop images of physical computers at the same time as it provides end users with local execution power and user personalization of the desktop. Users on Mirage-managed desktops can access their business assets through Horizon Workspace.
This document is a guided walkthrough of VMware Horizon Workspace, including a step-by-step perspective into technical architecture, use cases and initial installation, configuration, and integration. Here we will discuss the separate components of VMware Horizon Workspace, their interoperability with each other, and external integration with other products in the VMware Horizon Suite such as VMware Horizon View and VMware ThinApp.
VMware will show you how to set up a basic VMware Horizon Workspace environment, and the principles of scaling and integrating this deployment with your existing enterprise infrastructure.
VMware Horizon Workspace Reviewer's Guide<http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-horizon-workspace-reviewers-guide.pdf>
Download VMware Horizon Suite 1.0<https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_horizon_suite/1_0>
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Monday, March 4, 2013
VMware Horizon Workspace - So Pumped
Just downloading the .OVA for VMware Horizon Workspace 1.0 and am very excited to see what this looks like.
I have been looking for a replacement for dropbox, and I hope I have found it.
Will let you know what I think once its setup and running J
@MikeYallits
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