Comments for Welcome to vSphere-land! http://vsphere-land.com your ultimate VMware information destination Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:56:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Voting now open for the top VMware & virtualization blogs by Gina Bollenback http://vsphere-land.com/news/voting-now-open-for-the-top-vmware-virtualization-blogs.html/comment-page-1#comment-5769 Gina Bollenback Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:28:44 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3241#comment-5769 Hi - I featured this post on my weekly roundup on the VMware Global Alliances Blog: http://bit.ly/yoxXkQ Hi - I featured this post on my weekly roundup on the VMware Global Alliances Blog: http://bit.ly/yoxXkQ

]]> Comment on Nominations for Top Blog voting categories are now open! by Welcome to vSphere-land! » Voting now open for the top VMware & virtualization blogs http://vsphere-land.com/news/nominations-for-top-blog-voting-categories-are-now-open.html/comment-page-1#comment-5743 Welcome to vSphere-land! » Voting now open for the top VMware & virtualization blogs Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:04:54 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3233#comment-5743 [...] certain types of blogs. The choices of which blogs to include in the categories was the result of this survey and my best guessing. The categories are independent of the general voting so first pick and rank [...] [...] certain types of blogs. The choices of which blogs to include in the categories was the result of this survey and my best guessing. The categories are independent of the general voting so first pick and rank [...]

]]> Comment on What happened to vShield in vSphere 5? by Nick http://vsphere-land.com/news/what-happened-to-vshield-in-vsphere-5.html/comment-page-1#comment-5715 Nick Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:07:22 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3225#comment-5715 It's this kind of thing that drives people away from Vmware to stuff like Xen. I find not just misleading but borderline dishonest for them to be listing vShield functionality in the product feature set for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. I hope they realise before it's too late that screwing over customers to get every last penny isn't a good longterm strategy when there's competition in the market. I'm already being directed to build Poc Hyper-V and Xen environments purely because we can no longer build commercially viable VMware hosted solutions when our own competitors are using these much cheaper solutions. VMware need to make the most of the market-leading features like vShield and get more of their customers using it as part of the product and not shafting them for the privilege. It’s this kind of thing that drives people away from Vmware to stuff like Xen. I find not just misleading but borderline dishonest for them to be listing vShield functionality in the product feature set for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus.
I hope they realise before it’s too late that screwing over customers to get every last penny isn’t a good longterm strategy when there’s competition in the market. I’m already being directed to build Poc Hyper-V and Xen environments purely because we can no longer build commercially viable VMware hosted solutions when our own competitors are using these much cheaper solutions.
VMware need to make the most of the market-leading features like vShield and get more of their customers using it as part of the product and not shafting them for the privilege.

]]> Comment on Easy way to transfer files to a VM from the outside by Marabiloso http://vsphere-land.com/news/easy-way-to-transfer-files-to-a-vm-from-the-outside.html/comment-page-1#comment-5712 Marabiloso Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:47:47 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3187#comment-5712 If your files are to be used with a Windows VM, the simplest may be to make a CIFS share, that's a right click away from sharing the same repository to many VMs on multiple hosts, I don't see the point of duplicating the data in an ISO, and the hassle of "burning" a virtual CD/DVD/BluRay? The same would apply for Linux with NFS, with the huge advantage that NFS is recognized by the ESX and allows vMotion and svMotion, so your files may be shared at the same time between multiple VMs and ESXs. And you may mount your ISOs loopback over NFS, which is nice for installation. So, what are you using ISOs for, already? If your files are to be used with a Windows VM, the simplest may be to make a CIFS share, that’s a right click away from sharing the same repository to many VMs on multiple hosts, I don’t see the point of duplicating the data in an ISO, and the hassle of “burning” a virtual CD/DVD/BluRay?

The same would apply for Linux with NFS, with the huge advantage that NFS is recognized by the ESX and allows vMotion and svMotion, so your files may be shared at the same time between multiple VMs and ESXs. And you may mount your ISOs loopback over NFS, which is nice for installation.

So, what are you using ISOs for, already?

]]> Comment on Release/Build Info by Welcome to vSphere-land! » What happened to vShield in vSphere 5? http://vsphere-land.com/vinfo/release-build-info/comment-page-1#comment-5710 Welcome to vSphere-land! » What happened to vShield in vSphere 5? Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:15:14 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?page_id=876#comment-5710 [...] Release/Build Info [...] [...] Release/Build Info [...]

]]> Comment on Easy way to transfer files to a VM from the outside by Frans van Dokkumburg http://vsphere-land.com/news/easy-way-to-transfer-files-to-a-vm-from-the-outside.html/comment-page-1#comment-5643 Frans van Dokkumburg Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:53:25 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3187#comment-5643 Nice post, the tool foldertoiso is also a great tool and doesn't need any installation Nice post, the tool foldertoiso is also a great tool and doesn’t need any installation

]]> Comment on Easy way to transfer files to a VM from the outside by Carlos Garcia-Moran http://vsphere-land.com/news/easy-way-to-transfer-files-to-a-vm-from-the-outside.html/comment-page-1#comment-5640 Carlos Garcia-Moran Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:18:13 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3187#comment-5640 Great Tip, ive used this myself quite a few times in the past when copying files to DMZ VM Guests. Ive always used "folder to ISO" tool since it's portable but never thought to use the other tools you listed thx! Great Tip, ive used this myself quite a few times in the past when copying files to DMZ VM Guests. Ive always used “folder to ISO” tool since it’s portable but never thought to use the other tools you listed

thx!

]]> Comment on Top blog voting coming up soon! by Scott http://vsphere-land.com/news/top-blog-voting-coming-up-soon.html/comment-page-1#comment-5633 Scott Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:38:08 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3136#comment-5633 just wondering when you are posting your list of the top blogs? just wondering when you are posting your list of the top blogs?

]]> Comment on Top blog voting coming up soon! by Andi Lesslhumer http://vsphere-land.com/news/top-blog-voting-coming-up-soon.html/comment-page-1#comment-5613 Andi Lesslhumer Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:51:41 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3136#comment-5613 Hello, it would be great if you would list my blog, too. Regards Andi Hello,

it would be great if you would list my blog, too.

Regards
Andi

]]> Comment on Easy way to transfer files to a VM from the outside by Michael Russell http://vsphere-land.com/news/easy-way-to-transfer-files-to-a-vm-from-the-outside.html/comment-page-1#comment-5610 Michael Russell Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:28:33 +0000 http://vsphere-land.com/?p=3187#comment-5610 Hi, Just wanted to say nice tip! I never think of using the CDROM after install but this is a handy way to inject bginfo and other regular scripts into a VM! I'm sure some security guy will lock me down at some point but until then....!! Mike Hi,

Just wanted to say nice tip! I never think of using the CDROM after install but this is a handy way to inject bginfo and other regular scripts into a VM! I’m sure some security guy will lock me down at some point but until then….!!

Mike

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