VMWorld Europe 2009 – Party Time
Almost all of our collegues and friends think that VMworld Europe 2009 is one big party. Hereby I want to tell them that they are eh, right?
VMworld Europe 2009 – VMware announces vCenter Management Suite
Today at VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes VMware introduced their strategy for the coming years. VMware combines Chargeback, CapacityIQ, Orchestrator, ConfigControl and self service in the vCenter Management Suite. These are the building blocks that create the foundation for the next level in the virtualization…
VMWorld Euope 2009 – Blogging on the spot
The process of blogging is through several means from making notes during the session the old fashioned way or by using new technology. (Got the laptop charging again). Also lots of photos or video are shot during the process and we will…
VMWorld Euope 2009 – VMware introduces vCenter Server Heartbeat
February 10th I participated in a VMware WebEx on their new vCenter addon, vCenter Server Heartbeat and today the news will be released in Cannes at VMWorld Europe 2009. vCenter Server Heartbeat is an important addon which creates high availability for vCenter Server. vCenter Server…
VMWorld Europe 2009 – New strong leader shown to the public
Today VMware announced a new team member for the EMEA region for the fastest growing market world wide, his name is Maurizio Carli. Carli has more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry, including five years at Business Objects where he was Senior…
VMWorld Europe 2009 – Partner day
We just enjoyed the General Session for Partner day 2009 and the message is ‘the virtualization business is still growing’, ‘2009 is all about client virtualization’ and ‘get up, register opportunities, close deal, dig deap’. The keynote was presented to us by Paul Maritz, CEO of…
VMWorld Europe 2009 – Partner Day, Our first photo’s
Just a couple of minutes ago the keynote ended. Now it’s time to post some photo’s. If you want to see what you are missing check out the pictures in the gallery. [fancygallery id=”3″ album=”29″]
VMWorld Europe 2009 – Partner Day preview
After a short night it all begins, VMWorld Europe 2009! Today we start with Partner Day, a day where VMware shows the latest partner programs, sales and training programs and marketing initiatives. Partner Day is the place for all partners (including Centric) to: • Hear from…
In flight
I dropped the boys off at the airport. They are in flight at the moment and will touch down in Nice in about 20 minutes or so. Let’s hope they make it in time to get the bus to Cannes. I hope we will see…
New articles published for week ending 2/22/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Needed ports and services for a P2V
While reading some documents from Anne Jan and Erik about migrations of physical machines by means of P2V I noticed there was information about the ports that are being used for this migration: Physical machine to the converter server port 443 Converter server to physical…
Troubleshooting Blackberries after P2V
Earlier this week Anne Jan and I migrated a physical server with P2V with Blackberry Entetrprise Server. After the migration we of course asked the client to test all the services and application on that server. At that time all seemed just fine, but today…
Citrix tuning when running on VMware
After making a P2V of a couple of physical Citrix servers at a client, Anne Jan and I did some tuning for the best performance. Since the servers were on old hardware they now are already faster, but we wanted to get the most out…
New timekeeping articles on VMware KB
VMware just posted in one of their blogs a list of new As part of an ongoing effort to improve our understanding of and our external content around timekeeping and virtualization, a new series of articles have been developed. Knowledge base article 1420 has been retired…
Upgrading VMware vCenter server
While building the virtual enviroment for a client we are getting a lot of questions about how they should handle certain aspects in their new enviroment. One of those questions is how they should handle upgrades, best practices etc.