VMware Press “Meet the Author” Event at VMworld
Interested in getting your copy of a VMware Press book signed by the author(s) while at VMworld this year? VMware Press will be holding a Meet the Author event at VMworld to give you the opportunity to do just that! Come to the bookstore at VMworld on Wednesday, August 28th from 12:30-1:30 for a chance to meet the authors, chat…
Release of Virtualizing MSFT Business Critical Apps book!
After months of late nights and hard work, I’m very happy to announce that the book Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere, co-authored with Alex Fontana of VMware, has been released! The official release date from VMware Press was August 7th, and it will be officially in stock at Amazon on August 16th. It can be ordered from…
Deploying a VM with PowerCLI in a Semi-Complex Environment
The following is a guest blog post by my brother Ben Liebowitz. I guess virtualization runs in the family! Follow him on Twitter at @ben_liebowitz. ———————————————————————— Last year, while working at a previous employer, I wanted to make it easier for less-experienced team members to deploy VMs, while making sure little to no mistakes are made. I decided to go…
Changes in support for virtual machine snapshots for SQL Server
First off, I have to say that writing a book and working on a challenging project for a customer at the same time does not translate well into having a lot of time to blog. Shame on me – I need to do better. Back to business. Last year I wrote an article about using virtual machine snapshots with business…
New Book Coming Soon: Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere
I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the book I’m co-authoring, Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere, is available for both pre-order on Amazon as well as in Rough Cuts format from VMware Press. Though the release dates online currently list a September release date we’re working with VMware Press to try to get it released before…
Cloning Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers on vSphere 5
Microsoft introduced a lot of virtualization awareness in Windows Server 2012, particularly for domain controllers. They are, for the most part, considered virtualization “safeguards” in that they prevent against some of the classic problems of virtualizing domain controllers. Historically things like virtual machine snapshots, restoring from virtual machine image backups, or cloning domain controllers was either difficult or impossible. With…
vSphere Home Lab Upgrade–Synology DS1812+
I built up my home lab back in late 2011 after finally deciding that I needed something that was completely mine and not a shared lab with others. I built pretty much an identical lab to Jase McCarty’s (http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=1516) and have been very happy with it. The only problem I’ve had is with my home lab storage. A funny thing…
Honored to be an EMC Elect
I found out this weekend that I was named as an EMC Elect in the program’s inaugural first year. The EMC Elect award is similar to the VMware vExpert award in that it honors community involvement and knowledge sharing. Needless to say I’m thrilled and honored to have won the award especially when I see my name associated with many…
PVSCSI Bug Causing Exchange 2010 Jetstress to Crash
A few weeks back I was called in to help a customer who was experiencing problems completing Jetstress testing for an Exchange 2010 deployment. It wasn’t an issue of Jetstress reporting failed tests. Rather, they were unable to get through most of their tests without the Jetstress application actually crashing (JetstressWin.exe has stopped working). They would see the following after…
Windows 2012 Failover Clusters and vSphere 5.1
How many of you actually read through the release notes of a new vSphere release? Ok, I know that Maish does. If you read Maish’s post or read the vSphere 5.1 Release Notes you would see the following: Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering is not supported If you try to create a cluster for Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012,…