My Week in Geek – March 18, 2011

A weekly post (hopefully!?) of blogs, articles, sites, gadgets, issues, and other stuff I have found that is of interest to me (and I remembered to bookmark).

This kind of made my week

A girl from work that we helped get her home computer up and running got me this as a thank you.

1. VMware vCenter Operations was released this week. Here is what VMware says about it “VMware vCenter Operations uses patented analytics and powerful visualizations to automate performance, capacity and configuration management. It collects and analyzes performance data, correlates abnormalities and identifies the root cause of building performance problems. vCenter Operations provides capacity management to optimize resource usage and policy-based configuration management to assure compliance and eliminate sprawl and configuration drift.” I have licenses for it so I will be installing it to take a look.
    
2. Great article on balancing work and home and other responsibilities. I personally have problems juggling it all – work, family, school, hobbies – sometimes family and hobbies (me time) get overlooked a bit in the shuffle and I should do better. Family should always come first no matter what.
    
3. Are you having a rational discussion with someone? Follow this flow chart to find out.
    
4. The VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) appliance has been updated to support SSL. I installed this a bit ago just to have a look – eh, nothing special but it worked. I don’t use it.
    
5. Jumped on the VCAP Brown Bag on Wednesday night. I was a few minutes late getting on the Webinar but got to see most of the Lab presentation. Lot of good discussion after the Lab presentation but I don’t have a microphone for my home PC so I missed out on that Some very interesting discussions, especially on iSCSI configuration. Looking forward to the next one.
    
6. The first ever human built spacecraft to orbit Mercury! The Messenger spacecraft entered Mercury’s orbit on March 17.
    
7. VMware Labs released a fling of the vSphere client packaged as a ThinApp. Great idea, poor execution. The client is the pre-update 1 client. Hopefully they will have a new ThinApp of the latest version soon. I think this would be a great way for them to deliver the client in the future – at least with the option of using the ThinApp or installing the full client.
    
8. The City of Suffolk, Virginia Police Department launched their new web site this week. Nice.
    
9. The vSphere Client for the iPad has been released. You can download the client for free from the iTunes store. I don’t have much of a desire to get an iPad. I may look into one of the original iPads (iPad 1???), I see there are a lot of them on the used market right now as people are replacing theirs with the new iPad 2.
    
10. Nice How-to on enabling virtual machine logging using PowerCLI.
11. While we are talking about logging here is another one on enabling verbose logging for data recovery. Awesome and very helpful!!!
     
12. Anyone out there have any experience with vCloud Director??? Would like to know how you are using it and what you think about it.
     
13. Here is a good article on Thin Provisioned disks and VMFS fragmentation. We have had several discussions about this in class and this article provides some great information.
     

Have a great weekend!

Related posts:

1. My Week in Geek – March 11, 2011
2. My Week in Geek – March 4, 2011
3. My Week in Geek – February 18, 2011
4. My Week in Geek – January 21, 2011
5. My Week in Geek – January 28, 2011

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