Plain Virtualization

Recently, someone came to me and ask me below? This has been a question that I haven't been answering for awhile. How can I be alerted of new product releases or patches that are available for any VMware Products? This is actually part of your profile in my VMware portal . Log in to your my VMware portal . Under Profile Under Subscriptions You can check on the products of your interest to make aware of any patches and release update related information. When there is any, an email will be sent to you.

Starting from today, 10th March 2014, the recertification agreement and policy takes into effect as stated here .  What this means from this policy, any VCP certification be it VCP-DV, VCP-DT or VCP-Cloud earned prior to 10th March 2013, would be affected by this policy. What this means in short, anyone who has a VCP-x earned prior to 10th March 2013, will need to do another VCP-x or a VCAP certification by 10th March 2015 to be recertified (extended to 8th May 2015). Those who have earned a VCP after 10th March 2013, will have 2 years to recertified any VCP or above to renewed another 2 years from last date of passing. This process is not a painful process as this encourage professionals to be up to date with their skills and validiate their knowledge. Taking e.g. of myself, who did VCP-DV back in Oct 2012, by this year it would be almost 2 years.  If a professional like myself who earned the VCP but hardly apply this knowledge, it is as good as gone.  Doing ano...

I have many people asking me how to share or what can I share to a user on Horizon Workspace.  So Here I am going to share with you some screenshot and understand what can or cannot be done. We will be able to have a preview of normal office documents, pictures as well as PDF files in Horizon Workspace.  However if its a unknown format or files that cannot be display per se e.g. zip files, it will not be display. Now let's talk about sharing of files and folder. First of all, you are able to share file or folder to outside external parties from your domain.  This enable users to share file with third parties outside the domain.  External party will not be able to install the Horizon Workspace client as his account are not connected to the internal Horizon Workspace server. Below is a screenshot on the context menu you will see when you click to share a Folder or a File. Sharing a Folder Sharing a File When you share a File you will be provided w...