PNY XLR8 SATA Review

I am preparing for the VCAP-DCA exam, the first step for the exam coming is to build a computer for lab. I decided to upgrade my old Thinkpad T410 for this purpose. My laptop already have a Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge, 16GB of RAM. The weakness is a traditional HDD with large capacity but low performance. I decided to upgrade my HDD only. I go to amazon and search for a suitable SSD. Yes, i am a fan of Amazon. My expectation is a new SDD with high performance, capacity and low cost. After days of searching, I picked PNY XLR8 SDD up with 240GB of capacity. This SSD offers high speed data transfer of up to 500MB/s read, 475MB/s write; random IOPS up to 60,000. Another really cool thing is PNY offers a five-years warranty. In overal, I am really happy about performance, capacity and cost also.

• Capacity: 120GB/ 240GB/ 480GB
• Best Value: Premium grade flash to handle a wide variety of workloads
• Transfer Rates: Up to 500MB/s read, 475MB/s write
• Capacities: 240GB
• Controller: SandForce 2281
• 3 year warranty plus an additional 2 years when registered with PNY
• Price: Amazon

How to access VMFS Datastore on Windows

May you need to access VMFS datastore for some reasons. Here is the quick guide which let you do the task.
1. Make sure java is installed
2. Download VMFS driver: http://adf.ly/TZ13d
3. Unzip the file, for example C:\vmfs
4. Test fvmfs.jar by running these commands in cmd as administrator:
cd \vmfs 
java -jar fvmfs.jar
5. Connect the external drive to your computer and check its disk number in Windows Disk Management. Disk 1 will be named \\.\PhysicalDrive1 in vmfs

6. Make sure you can access the drive: java -jar fvmfs.jar  \\.\PhysicalDrive1 info

7. Share using webdav: java -jar fvmfs.jar \\.\PhysicalDrive1 webdav

8. Make sure the webclient service is running

9. Mount the drive: net use * http://localhost:50080/vmfs

10. The drive is mounted as below. The content on this drive is read-only.

 Enjoy!

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Yes, it's not a joke, it's completely free for 48 hours offer, Wednesday June the 5th and Thursday June the 6th. In US Kindle Store you can download the kindle copy of both these books for free. Duncan Epping (the author of these ebook) put this promotion on his blog on 28 May

So don't forget either Wednesday June the 5th or Thursday June the 6th, it might be the only time this year it is on promo.
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Free What’s New with Horizon View 5.2 Video Series

VMware Education Services have been public some free great new Horizon View videos. These videos are done by VMware Certified Instructor, Linus Bourque. He creates what's new video series, including:

• What’s New with Horizon View 5.2 user experience (part 1)
• What’s New with Horizon View 5.2 ease of management and cost of ownership (part 2)
• What’s New with Horizon View 5.2 Demonstration
• Horizon View 5.2 Mac Client Update
• Horizon View 5.2 Mac Client Update Demonstration
• Horizon View 5.2 HTML Blast Client 
• Horizon View 5.2 HTML Blast Client Demonstration
• Optimizing PCoIP GPO Settings
• Optimizing PCoIP GPO Settings Demonstration

What’s New with Horizon View 5.2, Part 1 
Check out VMware Education Video Site to see these and more other free videos too.