Please get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up – Robbie (Adam Sandler) from The Wedding Singer
Horizon DaaS now available directly from VMware
The "Year of VDI" has yet to hit me and my day job. There's always been lots of talk, but no walk – I have no excuse for this – just seems like it always takes the back burner in my list of priorities. VMware seems to continue to aquire companies, hire resources and push their VDI initiatives so I have to believe that they know something I don't (maybe I'll be less busy this year). Anyways, a recent announcement about Horizon DaaS being available now through vCHS is the latest in VMware's VDI arsenal. Brian Madden has an excellent article about it on his site. I'm interested to see how well adopted the cloud desktop is knowing that it hasn't made a huge impact inside of datacenters yet. Only time will tell.
vSphere 5.5 Update 1 is here!
For all those who have implemented the "I don't upgrade until Update 1 is released" mindset get your bits downloaded because it is here. For the rest of you, you can now find some new functionality inside of flagship hypervisor – you know, that little thing called VSAN. VSAN support, which was once only available to a small subset of 12,000 beta testers is now baked into the update 1 release of ESXi. The other benefit of 5.5 U1 comes in the form of cloud management. The vCHS vSphere Web Client plug-in is now available within the Inventories section inside your web client – allowing you to view all of your dedicated and virtual private cloud instances from vCHS, from the comfort of your web client.
Pour yourself some CIDR and read this.
Chris Wahl has a great post on Wahl Network where he compares simple networking concepts to his professional career development. Judging by the successes Chris has had, I would recommend listening to what he has to say on how you can move further in your carreer!!!
I got a fever and the only prescription is more Visio Stencils
Veeam has a nice collection of free Visio Stencils for both VMware and Hyper-V. For those that fancy nice little diagrams and designs you should probably go and add these to your arsenal. Also if you are running multi hypervisors, this gives you a nice consistent look and feel accross the diagrams that you are creating. Thanks Veeam!
Around the world
Speaking of Veeam, they have a pretty cool contest about to start! In celebration of their 100,000th customer, yes, that's 6 digits Veeam is giving away a trip for 2 to ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!. How do you enter? Simply head over to the link above and guess where you think that Veeams 100,000th customer will be located. And hey, in general Veeam fashion they have a ton of cool prizes for the runner ups as well. Google Glass, iPADs and Surface Pro's are a plenty.
