The real value of Project VRC
About two weeks ago I attended a session at the VMware User Group meeting here in the Netherlands about Project VRC. After the presentation I asked myself: ‘What is the value of this project?‘. For you who don’t know what Project VRC is: “Project Virtual…
Best practices XenApp on vSphere
Based on the real life results when virtualizing XenApp I thought it was about time to summarize some of the best practices for virtualizing XenApp servers. Why we DO want to virtualize XenApp? For server consolidation: vSphere enables scale up XenApp deployments; For mixing server…
VMware Communities Roundtable
Almost every week I listen to the podcast from the Communities Round-table, just to make sure that I didn’t miss anything important. What is this Communities Round-table? Well, who better than John Troyer, Sr Mgr VMware Communities, can explain what it is. Each week,…
VMware licensing management – a proposal for change
A couple of weeks ago I talked to a co-worker who is responsible for selling VMware licenses and other VMware related stuff. As a VMware partner it isn’t always easy to manage the licenses for customers nor selling or upgrading their licenses if they bought…
VMware View sizing & best practices
November 4th we published an article on Virtual Infrastructure best practices and the response was overwhelming. During the last month we received a lot of questions regarding best practices on VDI/VMware View. When I then read a comment from VMware’s evangelist, Richard Garsthagen, that the…
New articles published for week ending 12/20/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
New articles published for week ending 12/13/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Dutch VMUG video extravaganza
Yesterday was the big day for over 600 VMware enthusiasts in the Netherlands because the fifth Dutch VMUG event took place at the Nieuwegein Business Center. As usual Eric Sloof from NTPro.nl performed his usual video extravaganza which can be viewed at his website. Eric created…
vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop @ DutchVMUG
The last breakout session we attended the XTG vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop, a quick way to get familiar with a new VMware product. The instructor first introduced us to the product and discussed some installation and configuration hints and tips. After that we quickly started…
VMware Fusion 3.0.1 now available
The VMware Fusion Team has been working around the clock to add new features, improve performance and fix over 50 bugs to give out a very nice product to the Apple loving colleagues. The new automatic update feature for VMware Fusion helps to keep Fusion…
Demo Virtualization EcoShell by Eric Sloof
Gerben Kloosterman put up a video of Eric Sloof while demoing Virtualization EcoShell at http://blog.virtualarchitect.nl
Dutch VMUG Breakout 2 pictures
Pictures from Breakout session 2 by Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nu) can be found here. Breakouts in sessions 2: – Virtualiseren van Exchange by Jan Willem Lammers – VMware – How to monitor, manage & optimize a virtual environment by Danny Claproth – Vizioncore – Project VRC…
Dutch VMUG Breakout 1 pictures
Pictures from Breakout session 1 by Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nu) can be found here. Breakouts in sessions 1: – VMware’s latest Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by Rory Clements – VMware – Managing VMware vSphere 4 m.b.v. de Virtualization EcoShell by Eric Sloof – NTPro.nl – Why the…
Virtualization EcoShell @Dutch VMUG
For all the folks that didn’t hear about the EcoShell yet: The Virtualization EcoShell makes it possible to create scripts to automate management tasks for your virtual infrastructure, all from a user friendly user interface. These scripts can be saved for later use. This is…
Dutch VMUG Keynote pictures
Keynote pictures by Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nu) can be found here.
