A recap of the London VMUG January 2016 meeting, covering VMware ecosystem talks on security, storage, automation, and case studies.
A PowerCLI one-liner to calculate total allocated memory for powered-on VMs in a VMware vCenter environment.
Analysis of Intel's strong 2015 market performance contrasted with the emergence of serious CPU bugs and the expectation of more in the future.
Guide to creating dual-boot profiles on Windows to switch between Hyper-V and VirtualBox, as they cannot run simultaneously.
A guide on fixing a bug in the Convert-WindowsImage script to successfully create a Nano Server TP4 VHD, including updated installation steps.
A summary of key technical takeaways from the final day of VMworld Europe 2015, covering VMware Horizon, VSAN, vSphere Replication, and VM forking.
Highlights from VMworld Europe 2015 Day 3 sessions covering VMware's VDI leadership, NSX, Virtual Volumes, SDDC transformation, and PowerCLI automation.
A summary of five key announcements and technologies from VMworld US 2015, focusing on VMware's virtualization and cloud innovations.
A blogger's preview and preparation for attending VMworld Europe 2015, covering virtualization and cloud technology conference tracks.
Explains the importance of containers, contrasts them with VMs, and discusses their role in cloud computing and microservices, including Microsoft's new Docker support.
A quick tip to prevent accidentally booting and corrupting sysprepped Hyper-V template VMs by setting their VHD files to read-only.
An introduction to Docker, explaining containerization, how it differs from virtual machines, and its practical applications in software deployment.
An update to the New-NanoServerVHD script to support a new version of Convert-WindowsImage, adding VHDx and GPT support for Generation 2 VMs.
A guide and script for installing Windows Server Nano from the 2016 Technical Preview, detailing manual steps and an automated PowerShell method.
A technical guide on using PowerCLI to calculate and report on virtual machine disk space consumption in a VMware vSphere environment.
A PowerShell workflow for automating the optimization of multiple Hyper-V VHD/VHDx files across hosts, including parallel processing.
A guide to installing and troubleshooting Intel HAXM for Android emulator acceleration on a ThinkPad T440p, including BIOS settings.
A summary of the London VMware User Group meeting, covering storage performance with PernixData, community lightning talks, Docker integration, and DR solutions.
An overview of major CPU developments since the 1980s, focusing on features programmers can leverage for performance.
Tips for improving Rails development performance in Vagrant by addressing logging and filesystem bottlenecks.
