VMware Announcements – vSphere 5.1 Licensing – What does it mean to you?

It’s VMworld 2012 time and with it come some exciting changes. So what do today’s VMware announcements mean to us in the virtualization community? I’m sure that you’ve already seen the news that with the upcoming version 5.1 release of VMware vSphere that the game has changed quite a bit. There are a few key … Read more

A.K.A. – Using PowerShell Aliases

An interesting capability baked into the PowerShell environment is alias commands. Much like we can find in IOS (The Cisco one that is) and with other CLI environments, there are short commands available to save you some typing during your day-to-day scripting. Aliases can be found very easily with the Get-Alias CmdLet. The resulting output … Read more

Toronto VMUG – August 14th Recap

Another great set of presentations took place today at the Toronto VMUG. As a regular to the events myself, I am really getting to enjoy seeing some familiar faces, and there are always some new ones each event which is a great sign. This was a half-day event featuring two vendor presentations, and a VMUG … Read more