Sid Smith

Builds platforms and writes about them. Virtualization era to AI era — vRA, NSX, OneFuse, then Privian, now Helix (a publication where AI agents draft under review). Orlando.

Orlando, FL

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This week in virtualization news: Volume 1

Free ESXi 3.5 Update 4 available, get it here VMware to make big announcement on Aprril21st Many are speculating VMware will be releasing the next version

Looking Back

Its VMware Patch Friday...

VMware just released a round of patches. Go get some -> http://support.vmware.com/selfsupport/download/ Obviously, if you have VMware Update Manager set

desktop hypervisor

Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme

I have been a big fan of VMware products for a very long time, since the release of VMware Workstation 1.0 actually. I run VMware workstation on Windows, o

Automated Deployment

ESX automated deployment email completion notification

How would you like to kick off your ESX installation, then go have some coffee, go for a jog, or just hang out by the water cooler until it is finished wit

Automated Deployment

Network configuration for automated ESX deployment

I have been asked this question a few times so I thought it would be wise to post an article on it. When deploying an automated build script with the kicks

disk partitioning

ESX local disk partitioning

I had a conversation with some colleagues of mine about ESX local disk partitioning and some interesting questions were raised. How many are creating local

ESX

ESX vs. ESXi which is better?

So the question is which is better VMware ESX or VMware ESXi. A lot of die hard Linux fans will always say VMware ESX because of there attachment to the se

Desktop Virtualization

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization. This guide outlines the critical infrast

Automated Deployment

Using the Ultimate Deployment Appliance to test ESX kickstart scripts: Part II

In Part 2 of this series we are going to deploy our virtual ESX host in a VMware Workstation 6.5 virtual machine. We will use the UDA setup that we cre

Automated Deployment

Using the Ultimate Deployment Appliance to test ESX kickstart scripts: Part I

In this series I am going to walk you through setting up the Ultimate Deployment Appliance (UDA) and VMware Workstation 6.5 to test Automated ESX Deploymen

Looking Back

Ken's Networking Tips...and Cracking the ESX Root Password

First...Ken Cline started a blog about a month ago. It has some nice tips for networking, so check it out. My eyes were opened after reading his post about

Automated Deployment

Deploying Automted Kickstart Scripts Over HTTP

Originally I was going to cover all the various options for initiating your automated kickstart installation as "Automated Deployment of ESX Hosts Part IV"