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Carter Shanklin
San Jose, CA
Product Manager at VMware specializing in automation.
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Love data? The SQLFire and GemFire teams are hiring.
Posted Jan 20, 2012 at VMware vFabric SQLFire Blog
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Using SQLFire as a read-only cache for MySQL.
Posted Jan 10, 2012 at VMware vFabric SQLFire Blog
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SQLFire 1.0 - the Data Fabric Sequel
Posted Dec 14, 2011 at VMware vFabric SQLFire Blog
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SQLFire at VMworld.
Posted Aug 23, 2011 at VMware vFabric SQLFire Blog
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SQLFire and Grails
Posted Jul 5, 2011 at VMware vFabric SQLFire Blog
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SQLFire 1.0 beta released! Structured data now with performance and scale.
Today we're very happy to announce that our beta of vFabric SQLFire has been released! There's tremendous change underway today in data management. These days people are looking for databases that are faster, more scalable, more reliable, and can effortlessly serve users around the globe. We believe SQLFire does a... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2011 at VMware vFabric SQLFire Blog
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There's one more dimension here -- vihostupdate via COS or vihostupdate via the vSphere vCLI.
If you're using ESXi in *diskless* mode, the vCLI-based vihostupdate has some bugs and you should use VUM until these are worked out. If you've used ESXi installable (i.e. you have a local disk) either will work fine.
Also, the COS-based vihostupdate for ESX works fine.
How should we patch 3rd party vmkernel modules?
I’ve been pushing the PowerPath team to make patching done via VUM – but this little snafu with the Cisco Nexus 1000v patch has me thinking… How would you like 3rd party vmkernel module patching to be handled? It seems to me that these are our options: Don’t use VUM (manual via vihostupdate) ...
@Tejas
Not in the current releases. We are working on ACL, so stay tuned.
Managing VM guests using vmrun.
The easiest way to get started with VIX is by using the vmrun command which is packaged inside of VIX. It's a command-line executable that doesn't require a development environment, and is pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it. Since I mostly use ESX, I want to take an ESX-centric view...
What if the person was smiling, but they were busily torturing Iraqis or smothering kittens when the photo was taken? Does that portend a long and happy marriage?
Childhood Photos Are Predictors of Success in Marriage
Those who usually frowned in photos when they were children and teenagers are five times more likely to get divorced later in life than those who smiled in their photos. The more intensely you smiled in childhood photos, the less likely that you’ll divorce later in life. (I’ll bet parents...
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