I know, this one caught me totally by surprise as well, but it’s true. We don’t actually use this switch when creating vmdk’s, but after seeing some _shocking_ statistics from our environment, whereby most VM’s with additional vmdk’s were using under 10% of their provisioned space, I decided to look into it.
Now I certainly don’t [...]
The aim of this post is not to rubbish the guys who put together VMware’s recently announced “Cost Per Application Calculator”. I can only imagine the amount of effort that would have gone into producing such a tool. But although a good job has been done I can’t imagine why anyone would find it useful, [...]
No I’m not apologising for the title of that post, because this is fucking outrageous.
I just downloaded and installed IE8 for Windows XP, and despite having configured Google as my search provider, imagine my surprise when the first thing IE8 threw up on first launch (after a reboot no less) was the Microsoft Search page [...]
Things are going to be even quieter than usual around here for the next week or so, as I’m heading to Vegas for some R&R! (internal monologue: and some card counting, heheh. no wait, don’t type that stu! nooooooo!). I started my IT career working at a casino (which is why i can count cards), [...]
From the VI Toolkit blog, Carter is running a poll over in the VI Toolkit community (login required in order to vote) to help VMware identify which products are in most need of PowerShellification. Of course, all VMware products are in need of PowerShell, but we understand they need to assign priorities to each of [...]
