A Boring Introduction:

It's been a crazy week! A lot of stuff is happening right now at my work, personal life, and my career. For example, I'm building our much-awaited "Private Cloud" at work, using both the ultimate vSphere Cloud OS and the rock-solid IBM hardware that was finally delivered this week. But wait, this is [...]

This is a response to the new vSphere Blogging contest that was announced in the middle of this month. I truly think that it's a cool idea, and I believe that regardless of winning or losing, the excitement and fun a blogger would have during his/her participation is something awesome by itself.
The rules say that [...]

The response to my previous post has been unreal! The amount of tweets, ping backs, hits, linking, emails was quite amazing. I have to admit, I didn't expect to see that much of interest in the subject, but thanks to everyone who participated in promoting this idea on twitter and the blogosphere.
In the second part [...]

A new, thin and compact video! Here we'll demo the new GUI based storage vMotion feature built-in vSphere. Yes, GUI based and built in, no more command lines and hassle. It's fast, it's easy and it's very reliable, especially when doing the thin/thick conversions while you're migrating the VMs.

Happy viewing!

In this video I'll be demonstrating the following in order:

Enable the Hot-Add/Plug in the virtual machines.

Hot-Add memory for a VM and increase it from 512MB to 1GB.

See from the VM's Task Manager the new amount of memory available for the GOS.

Hot-Add a new NIC, and configure it on the fly.

Thin-Provision a new 10GB hard drive [...]