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Tonight I got this letter from Sony about the security breach.  Frankly, this comes WAY to late for many of us to “Be Vigilant” seeing as you denied any breach for days so now we are over a week into someone having your 77 Million User’s data.  Why did this …

There is often some confusion by customers that I speak to about VMware vCloud about how and where the “Catalogs” function becomes useful as well as how we deal with external dependancies, specifically Active Directory.  Mainly the catalog question stems from the traditional thinking of vCenter “Templates” and what we know …

Well I wanted to post a quick note about the new NASCAR 2001 game that was released yesterday.  First impressions of the game play were not bad at all.  Good graphics smooth scrolling, controls using the PS3 analog stick were responsive.  However the first things I noticed being a NASCAR …

Introduction: This outlines the configuration I personally used for installing setting up a lab based “vCloud in a box” for testing and understanding of all the vCloud components. This setup can be done almost 100% virtually with a single physical server hosting all the components.  Parts of the configuration are …

I often get asked during a vCloud Jumpstart or vCloud Accelerator delivery by both customers and other VMware Consultants…..What exactly do we need to stand up for a “Production” ready private cloud?  This got me thinking about all the considerations around what actually goes into the deployment beyond just vCenter, ESX, vCloud …

One word…..AWESOME.  I have to say being a free app and having my wife’s iPad to test this with is just great.  The only tricky part for me was setting up the external interfaces for the PCoIP URL.  for some reason it only allows IP address instead of FQDN so …

  There has been a few posts out there on installing and setting up vCloud Request Manager.  I spent a good couple days last week doing my own install adding to my vCloud in a Box Lab so here is some of my notes from the installation as I performed …

So there is always a question that comes up when we install vCenter Chargeback with vCloud director.  In most cases folks, ask the same question.  “Which interface do I use to access the tool”.  What they are referring to is the fact that there is the Web interface as well …