VMware Workstation 8 and Fusion 4 released

VMware has today released VMware Workstation 8 and Fusion 4 for general availability. One of the cool new additions of Workstation 8 is “Shared VMs” feature which allows you to remotely connect to VMs on other VMware Workstation instances, ESXi hosts or to even vCenter Server!

With Workstation 8 you can migrate VMs from [...]

EMC Symmetrix VSA is in the works! kind of

I spotted something very unexpected and interesting in the Twitter today, David Robertson (@daverdfw) is working on a EMC Symmetrix virtual storage appliance for VMware vSphere which is actually on display at the VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. Symmetrix VSA is still an unofficial and EMC internal only project but if enough Symmetrix customers [...]

Poll time: Segregating ESXi management and vMotion

A while back I was chatting with a friend of mine at Finnish VMware Users Group IRC channel about best practice on logical level topology of ESXi management and vMotion networks. My friend is used to have only a single VMkernel interface for both ESXi management and for vMotion. I, on other hand, am [...]

Check your WordPress installations for hacked plugins

I noticed a tweet from Mikko Hyppönen of F-Secure warning about popular WordPress plugins been hacked to include a backdoor, WordPress has issued an official notification of this incident http://wordpress.org/news/2011/06/passwords-reset/.

So if you are running a WordPress and have AddThis, WPtouch, or W3 Total Cache plugins installed, please make sure that you are not [...]