Nicholas Weaver – Fistful of Cloud : Interactive Cloud Demo – Technically this is my first time to create a proper GUI(besides normal forms), work with dual APIs, and program for peripherals.This is also the most advanced I have gotten on multi-threading and my brain still hurts. The Microsoft Kinect is an extremely slick piece of hardware and I think we have just scratched the surface with the application this could lead to.
Vladan Seget – Use vOptimizer Pro 3.1 to shrink or realign your virtual disks – This new version is ESXi 4.1 compatible and there are new features and OS. Linux versions RHEL 4 and 5, and Suse 10 and 11 are now supported. In fact it’s the only product on the market today which can shrink VMDKs. Shrink the virtual disks – to reclaims wasted VM storage. To shrink a VMDK one could use VMware Converter to do it but it’s not in place operation. You’d have to convert the VM by using VMware converter to another datastore and then delete the source VM. You’d have the choice to select the size of the destination disks.
Greg Stuart – Need a pulse check? Get VMware Alive VM for free! – Just when you think VMware has come out with a really cool product that would be hard to top, they follow it with another product that is just as amazing and more. With the release of VMware Alive VM, this is that product. Have you ever heard of Alive VM? I hadn’t either until I stumbled across a promotion running on the VMware website.
Arnim van Lieshout – ESXi Tech Support Mode – As a security recommendation you should always disable Tech Support Mode (TSM) on your ESXi servers, but sometimes it’s helpful if you’re able to connect to your ESXi server using Secure Shell (SSH). When you want to enable TSM, you have 3 options…
Frank Denneman – Setting Correct Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved – vSphere introduced the HA admission control policy “Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved”. This policy allows the user to specify a percentage of the total amount of available resources that will stay reserved to accommodate host failures. When using vSphere 4.1 this policy is the de facto recommended admission control policy as it avoids the conservative slots calculation method.
