Limited management & automation support for vSphere
Update April 22th 2009: Today the rumor mentioned below was confirmed during the vSphere 4 launch. Rumor in the VMware community has it that the next version of VMware ESX, vSphere, has very limited support for the VMware management and automation suite. vSphere will of…
Virtualization EcoShell release date
We already reported on this and even made a video of Scott Herold’s demo at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative, VESI for short.The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold….
Webcast: Choosing the Right Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Platform
Title: Webcast: Choosing the Right Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Platform Location: Online Link out: Click here Description: Companies today face a myriad of factors when evaluating a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform. In this session, we will explain what sets VMware View™, the next-generation VDI solution…
Hyper-V, the laughter continues
Today my twitter popped up and I saw a retweet from Duncan Epping pointing to an article on VInternals. Duncan added a warning ‘Please sit down before reading my latest post‘, this caught my attention. I read the article and I must say, this is…
Technical Track: Demo of DR Testing with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Title: Technical Track: Demo of DR Testing with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Location: online Link out: Click here Description: In this webcast, we will provide a live demo of the disaster recovery (DR) testing features of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. This solution makes…
Webcast: Intro to Virtualization
Title: Webcast: Intro to Virtualization Location: Online Link out: Click here Description: Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way people compute. You may ask yourself, who should use virtualization? Why should you use it?…
New articles published for week ending 4/5/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
ESX vs Hyper-V mythbusting myth
Last March I wrote an article on vendors trying to market their products by bashing the competition and not having a clean discussion. At that moment I thought ‘Am I the only one making this into a problem?’ Today I read a great post by…
Webcast: Sneak Peek: VMware vCenter Chargeback
Title: Webcast: Sneak Peek: VMware vCenter Chargeback Location: online Link out: Click here Description: Join the VMware Chargeback team as they describe how VMware vCenter Chargeback will deliver a simple cost accounting structure for the virtualized environment in 2009. Using an allocation or utilization model…
The score after 6 months
It is now April and in October 2008, 6 months ago, we started our own virtualization blog. I registered a funny domain name when applying for a private domain name and Anne Jan, Edwin, Alex and I started this website just for the fun of…
Webcast: Sneak Peek: VMware vCenter AppSpeed
Title: Webcast: Sneak Peek: VMware vCenter AppSpeed Location: online Link out: Click here Description: Due for release in 2009, this Application Performance Monitoring product will provide unparalleled insight into the performance of multi-tier applications. In this webcast, we will cover both how the technology can…
VMware renames vSphere
After many complaints from the community VMware finally gave in and renamed their next generation ESX, formerly known as vSphere, to vCloudOS. We at VMGuru.nl already complained at the end of 2008 about the new name and many other did the same. Some even claimed that…
Database size calculation sheets
Last week a collegue asked how big the initial database for VirtualCenter should be and how much it grows. He also needed to know much diskspace he needed to reserve for the database. Since we have to do this more often I thought it would…
HP introduces new ProLiant G6 server line
Today HP announced the release of the new ProLiant G6 server line. After visiting an NDA session with HP on VMworld Europe 2009 a lot of new G6 ProLiant servers were shown. Nice new hardware build up for even better supporting virtualization in common. All…
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 released
Last week I reported a bug to VMware and yesterday I got their reply stating that this issue is solved in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 which they had just released. Damn those VMware guys are fast ;-) Update 4 has build number 153875, requires…