July 2012, Munishpal's Blog

vSphere 5.0 – Configuration Maximums

July 4, 2012munishpalmakhija

Today I was going through my documents and realised that while preparing for the VCP in Feb 2012. I had created this sheet to test how much i know or how much i remember This spreadsheet has been designed to help learn the many tables of maximums associated with the…Continue readingvSphere 5.0 – Configuration Maximums

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Dell buying Quest for $2.4 billion

July 4, 2012munishpalmakhija

Dell announced Monday that it is buying Quest Software for US$2.4 billion, following weeks of speculation over its interest in the infrastructure software vendor. The deal is expected to close later this year. Quest\’s products include the Toad database management toolset, Quest One Identity management software, and the SonicWALL and…Continue readingDell buying Quest for $2.4 billion

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VMware acquiring cloud automation vendor DynamicOps

July 3, 2012munishpalmakhija

DynamicOps provides software for running virtualized workloads across different cloud platforms VMware is acquiring DynamicOps for its heterogenous cloud management offerings as it expands beyond the delivery of software for its own cloud platform.For Complete Article Click Here

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Virtual Machine Compression

July 3, 2012munishpalmakhija

For some purposes i had to copy the VMs and ship it across for which I wanted to compress the VM files. I have done comparison between 3 different tools for same VMs. I noticed the best Compression Ratio was for 7zip Original Size 24 GB 7Zip 2.19 GB WinRar…Continue readingVirtual Machine Compression

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Latest fling from VMware Labs – VMware Guest Reclaim

July 3, 2012munishpalmakhija

VMware Labs presents its latest fling Guest Reclaim . Guest Reclaim reclaims dead space from NTFS volumes hosted on a thin provisioned SCSI disk. The tool can also reclaim space from full disks and partitions, thereby wiping off the file systems on it. As the tool deals with active data,…Continue readingLatest fling from VMware Labs – VMware Guest Reclaim

Month: July 2012