Eric Sloof – Video – Metro vMotion in vSphere 5.0 – vSphere 5 introduces a new latency-aware Metro vMotion feature that not only provides better performance over long latency networks but also increases the round-trip latency limit for vMotion networks from 5 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds. Previously, vMotion was supported only on networks with round-trip latencies of up to 5 milliseconds.
Dean Flaming – ThinApp, the Taskbar, and Start Menu Pinning – Recently I was asked if there was a way to pin ThinApp packages to the Start Menu and Taskbar in Win 7. Well, depending upon what your desired outcome is, there are both long and short answers. What is "Pinning"? First off, what is "Pinning" in Win 7 (and Vista too)? Basically, "Pinning" is the ability for a Windows User to tack an application to the Start Menu or Quick Launch areas which the User wishes to have easy and quick access to.
Chris Colotti – How To: Configure vCloud Director Load Balancing – I realized yesterday in talking to a friend and colleague of mine that there is a lot of confusion about load balancing vCloud Director cells. I had written a detailed post about considerations and many of these were also incorporated into the new vCAT 2.0. However it seems there is still something lost in translation so I wanted to break it down to very some very simple requirements that are easy to follow.
Kendrick Coleman – VMware vSphere 5 Host NIC Network Design Layout and Configuration – As vSphere has progressed, my current 6, 10, and 12 NIC designs have slowly depreciated. In an effort to update these to VMware vSphere 5, I took the 2 most popular configurations of 6 and 10 NICs and updated the Visios to make them a bit more pretty. I also don’t know how much longer these will be necessary as the industry moves forward with 10GbE as a standard.
Alan Renouf – Automated install of vShield Services – Following on from my previous post in this series where I showed how we could deploy vShield manager into our virtual infrastructure I thought I would take it one step further and show how we can use the vShield API’s within PowerShell to make some nice PowerShell advanced functions which will install the vShield services on our hosts.
