The VMware vCenter Mobile Access tool allows you to use your iPad to manage and monitor your vCenter environment. This handy tool I deployed the other day in my lab environment in around 20 minutes or less. <figcaption id="caption-attachment-159" class="wp-caption-text">VMware vSphere iPad App</figcaption></figure> The proces... Read more 22 Mar 2013 - 1 minute read
CloudPhysics is an online tool for monitoring your VMware environment available from CloudPhysics.com. The tool allows you to see a graphical representation of your VMware environment. The functionality of the reporting is based on setting up a CloudPhysics Observer Server OVF template The main monitoring page displaying the Observer Cards th... Read more 19 Mar 2013 - 1 minute read
Late last year I set up a VMware home lab to assist with my preparation for the VCP5 certification… For this set up I borrowed some ideas from Sammy Bogaert’s excellent blog. It was a 100% virtualized within VMware Workstation 9. The system I built has the following hardware; 1 x Intel Core i7-3770 BX80637i73770 Processor Quad Core, 8MB L3 C... Read more 16 Mar 2013 - 1 minute read
Update: 29 May, 2013 VMware on May 21, 2013 launched the service again with additional services via an online marketing event that was webcast. Some of these additional services included being able to migrate your existing virtualized infrastructure across to their new Hybrid Cloud service. VMware is now competing directly with the big players i... Read more 15 Mar 2013 - 2 minute read