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New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2015-0005

New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2015-0005 New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2015-0005 Today VMware has released the following new advisory VMSA-2015-0005 This addresses an issue in VMware Workstation, Player and Horizon View Client for Windows that may lead to a host privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2015-3650 to this […]

Mostafa Khalil 
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Find the ESXi that owns the VMDK lock or other…

Find the #ESXi that owns the VMDK lock or other file lock on a VMFS datastore Find the ESXi that owns the VMDK lock or other… Unfortunately from time to time you can end up in a situation where your virtual machine is not reacting anymore on operations like vMotion, power-on or releasing a snapshot. […]

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VMworld Session – NET6256SPO Advanced Network…

Dennis’ Session – NET6256SPO Advanced Network Architecture in SDDC to deploy highly automated IT Service Delivery based on NSX VMworld Session – NET6256SPO Advanced Network… Here is a link to the VMworld session I will be presenting with Brocade. The session is based on the project I am currently engaged on for a State of […]

Mostafa Khalil 
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Great Feats of Deployment: OpenStack in 90 Minutes

Great Feats of Deployment: OpenStack in 90 Minutes Great Feats of Deployment: OpenStack in 90 Minutes A few weeks backI had the pleasure to attend Cisco Live in San Diego, this came right on the heels of the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. Both events were great opportunities for the team at SolidFire to interact with […]

Mostafa Khalil 
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Removing disaster recovery from your business…

Plan your #DR with Insight, which installs within your #VMware enviornment Removing disaster recovery from your business… Let’s face it! We all have enough to worry about with our production environments! We’ve got servers, storage, switches, fabrics, subnets, hypervisors, cabling – ugh cabling! Anyways the p VMware Advocacy

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Can You Replace Your Home Lab with Ravello…

Can You Replace Your Home Lab with Ravello Systems? Can You Replace Your Home Lab with Ravello… Note: This is a cross post of an original colaboration between Jason Langer and myself. It is also posted on his blog atvirtuallanger.com The idea of this blog post came up during a conversation I was having with […]

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