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Condusiv V-locity VM Testing

During the recent vForum event at Wembley I had an interesting meeting with Condusiv Technologies (formally Executive Software\ Diskeeper).

They were showing off the latest release of V-Locity VM.

V-locity VM is classed as a Performance Accelerator which offers benefits such as :-
Increase application performance by 50%
Reduce latency by 50% for faster file access
Eliminate bottlenecks without expensive hardware
True "set and forget" management
What struck me was the performance potential for VM’s running on potentially limiting storage (it happens, in fact our storage at work is about on par with the performance one of our guys get’s from a Synology Diskstation 1513+ and yes we have fine tuned and tweaked).

I had a chat with their Technical Director and asked about an NFR or Evaluation license to allow me to do some testing in my home lab to see what kind of performance improvements can be gained from running V-locity VM in my environment.

It should be noted that the V-locity software is limited to the Microsoft platform of OS’s starting with Windows XP (SP2) all the way up to Windows 2012, it also supports both vSphere (ESX\i 4.0 or later) and HyperV as the host virtualisation platform.

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Microsoft drops the bomb about TechNet Subscriptions

Microsoft dropped the bomb last night about the retiring of the TechNet Subscription service from the 31st of August 2013 with the added news that subscribers may still activate purchased subscriptions up until the 30th of September 2013.

I for one have been a big champion for the yearly subscription service from Microsoft and in fact have petitioned VMware to bring back their VMTN offering a while ago so this announcement comes as a big disappointment Sad smile

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VMware Converter 5 Error – No Source Disk

During a recent VMware Converter P2V conversion I ran across an issue where I was getting an error and the conversion process would fail to obtain hardware information from the source machine. I could install the client just fine but once installed it didn’t see the local disk.

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vShield Endpoint – Not applicable to ESX version below 4.1 Patch 3

Came across a little issue today when trying to install the vShield Endpoint on to a number of our ESXi hosts today, with the hosts evacuated I clicked on the vShield tab to install the Endpoint onto the host and came across the message “Not applicable to ESX version below 4.1 Patch 3”, strange as we are running ESXi 5.1 on the hosts Smile .

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2013 vExperts – Free one year subscription to TrainSignal

What can I say, TrainSignal have a BIG gift for all of the 2013 vExperts (all 581 of us, btw who was the 581st?? as it was originally only 580) and that’s a years subscription to their Training Library.

Over 1,500 hours of IT pro video training

Over 200 hours of VMware video training

30 VMware courses that include topics like vSphere 5.1, vSphere Advanced Networking, vCenter Operations Manager, vCloud Director 5.1, vSphere Performance, vSphere Troubleshooting, vSphere Design and new courses on the way (including VCAP-DCA5, EMC Storage Essentials, and more)

Certification practice exams (including the VCP)

Offline viewer (Win/Mac)

iPad compatible streaming

A BIG thanks to TrainSignal for this.

vExperts to find more information and to register for your subscription please go here

vExpert 2013 Award

I am happy to announce that for a second year in a row I have been awarded the vExpert 2013. I wasn’t sure I had done enough blogging on my site over last year but then realised that it wasn’t just my blogging but also my moderation duties over at http://certforums.com that helped my chances. I run several blogs about Technology as I usually document installation guides\technical fixes and how to guides for various different products, I use my own site to assist me with obscure issues that occasionally crop up. With a family and long working days it’s not an easy thing to maintain but having a laptop\tablet and connection to my homelab certainly allows me to blog on the move.

To give you an idea of numbers, over 1000 people applied for the vExpert award this year, only 580 succeeded in being awarded, in John Troyers words :-

There were a lot of very smart, very accomplished people, even VCDXs, that weren’t named as vExpert this year.

I will continue to blog and post on the various forums I attend so please continue to visit regularly.

I would also like to congratulate all the new and renewed vExperts for 2013, especially Andrey and Craig, two of my fellow Certforum colleagues.

Invalid configuration for device ’0′. vNIC error.

Whilst doing some work on one of our Windows 2008 R2 templates (AV Upgrade) I discovered that we had an issue with the network being un plugged and not connecting, it turns out that the template had recently been Storage vMotion to a different data store and since then wouldn’t allow the vNIC to connect to the network.