vSphere 5.0 Features

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/08/vsphere-50-features.html

DELL racadm on CentOS 5.7

Here are 4 simple steps to get, setup and use DELL RACADM cli tool.

1. Install and configure minimal installation of CENTOS 5.7 x86_64
2. wget http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/platform_independent/rh50_64/racadm/mgmtst-racadm-6.1.0-648.i386.rpm
3. yum install compat-libstdc++-33
4. rpm -i mgmtst-racadm-6.1.0-648.i386.rpm

and here we go ...

You can use racadm to query for example DELL M1000e CMC
racadm -r 10.10.1.54 -u root -p calvin getsysinfo

Bellow are links to some other posts about RACADM ...

RACADM Command Line Interface for DRAC ...
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/racadm-command-line-interface-for-drac.aspx

How to setup racadm on Centos ...
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/#yum

Here is some blog about ...
http://yo61.com/install-dell-racadm-on-fedora-11.html

Here is the software repository for racadm install package
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_6.1/platform_independent/rh50_64/racadm/

CISCO LISP - Google Talk - Part 1

VMware vCenter Orchestrator

http://www.vcoteam.info/newsflash/vmware-released-the-vcenter-orchestrator-plug-in-update-for-vcloud-director-15.html

vCD Custom Portals and Backend Integrations in a Service Provider Environment

http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2011/11/vcd-custom-portals-and-backend-integrations-in-a-service-provider-environment.html

Scaling VMware deployments with Cisco UCS and VMware Auto Deploy

http://infrastructureadventures.com/2011/12/11/scaling-vmware-deployments-with-cisco-ucs-and-vmware-auto-deploy/

MDS Fibre Channel Switching Basics for Network Engineers

http://routerjockey.com/2011/12/23/mds-fiber-channel-switching-basics-for-network-engineers/

Apache PaaS - Hadoop

http://hadoop.apache.org/

PassMark - CPU, disk, net benchmark software

http://www.passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm

VMware vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/uploads/AdvancedTroubleshooting.pdf

What's new in performance in VMware vSphere 5

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Whats-New-VMware-vSphere-50-Performance-Technical-Whitepaper.pdf