Using Ravello cloud for the bandwidth embarrassed

Ravello Systems kindly provide vExpert’s with 1000 hours per month of usage. This is great for building almost no holds barred environments within the cloud for labbing etc. However for me it does have one huge drawback, there are no available windows OS’s to choose from. With the Ravello system you can upload your own ISO files or vm files to the cloud system for use which is great excRead More…

Quick Tip: VMware Workstation 12 and Take Ownership message

One thing I’ve noticed when upgrading to VMware Workstation 12 is that I saw a marked increase in the messages such as “The VM appears to be in use” and prompting you to “take Ownership” of the vm which always fails.   Now this is a new thing as I very rarely saw it on previous versions however it appears that VMware have changed the release vm process within workstation 1Read More…