Just a quick note to let you know that EMC Consulting is hiring within the Cloud & Virtual Data Center practice. I joined EMC Consulting in early October, and I’m very glad that I did. I’ve met a number of terrific professionals within the IT transformation space, and I’ve had an opportunity to influence the […]
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If you’ve been following the national news as of late, you might be aware of the record-breaking drought & high temperatures that have been plaguing Texas this year. As I understand it, our weather conditions are a direct result of La Niña, a weather phenomenon (and naturally occurring cycle) that produces slightly cooler ocean temperatures […]
Austin’s first vBeers! #vBeersATX #vBeers
Love VMware or virtualization in general? Love beer? Then let’s combine them! Join us for the first in a series of Austin Texas vBeers at Opal Divine’s Marina, in front of Fry’s at Mopac/1325 and Parmer. Any and all are invited, all you need is your winning smile and a love for good virtualization conversations […]
vSphere 5 swap to host cache: forcing & reporting
Quick & dirty post: If you ever need to demonstrate ESXi 5’s new swapping to host cache feature, I’ve found the easiest way to do that is to create two VMs that over-commit the host memory (and have very little disk allotted). You can power on the VMs, open up each VM’s console and boot […]
Quick tip: PowerShell here-strings don’t like whitespace
Today I was writing a bit of raw XML to be used as a SOAP message. Being a person who enjoys writing easy to read code, I declared my variable using here-string notation, pasted in the appropriate XML between the @” and “@, making sure to indent everything along the way including the last “@. […]