OpenStack Havana All-in-One lab on VMware Workstation

With all of the popularity of OpenStack in general, and specifically with my other posts on deploying the Rackspace Private Cloud lab on VMware Workstation, I think it’s time for me to update with a new lab build for everyone. This lab build process will be done using VMware Workstation, an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ISO … Read more

It’s vMDM time! – Welcome AirWatch to the VMware family

As you may have read this morning, there was an announcement that VMware will purchase AirWatch (@AirWatch  on Twitter – http://www.air-watch.com), a mobile device security firm. With this move, there is a fairly clear message being sent that VMware is fully embracing workforce mobility from every angle. This wasn’t the first move A few people … Read more

Guess who’s going to be at Virtualization Field Day 3?

It has started off as an incredible year in 2014 already. One of the reasons I am so excited is that I am super honored to have been invited to be a delegate for Virtualization Field Day #3 presented by the team at Tech Field Day (www.techfieldday.com). If you didn’t see my earlier post on … Read more

Double-Take Move – vSphere to Hyper-V migration

For anyone who has had to move virtual guests from a VMware vSphere environment to a Microsoft Hyper-V environment, you know the challenges that are involved. Now, if you read my blog you’ll find it surprising that I’d be moving content from vSphere to Microsoft Hyper-V since I haven’t highlighted this as a need before. … Read more