VMware vCenter Mobile Access
As every morning I was browsing on the internet and read an amazing article about controlling your virtual infrastructure by logging into vCenter mobile access from your mobile device. I think almost everyone knows the situation in which you are occupied in a personal situation and…
Citrix’s definition of HA
Today we had a very interesting presentation from Citrix. At one point the discussion was about the Citrix’s definition of High Availability. I really can imagine that this is getting a confusing discussion. VMware says: HA is to resolve a single host failure. Citrix however…
VMware recorded webcasts
I hope you all enjoyed the webcast from yesterday about the next version of vCenter Server. For those who never saw a VMware webcast: It’s a fun and easy way to further your knowledge about VMware and their range of products. Most of the webcasts…
Sneak Peek: VMware vCenter Server
You probably noticed the last couple of weeks that everybody is talking about the next generation of virtualisation software from VMware. In about an hour VMware is going to do a live webcast about vCenter Server.
Cisco & VMware join forces: Cisco Unified Computing System
Yesterday Cisco revealed more details about their Unified Computing System. The term was announced some time ago but nobody really knew what Cisco was planning. Some people even thought that Cisco was about to take over VMware as we already talked about in this article….
New articles published for week ending 3/15/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Thin Client going BSOD
The day before last I had to configure a VMware View proof of concept. For this we used HP hardware and a couple of thin clients from Wyse. People always tell me that thin clients don’t need support, no management needed, nothing can go wrong….
EMC to sell VMware to Cisco?
This has been reason for discussions for quite some time now and I remember that during the ‘VMware unplugged’ session at VMworld in Cannes there were also some questions on this issue. Paul Maritz’s comment on the question ‘Can you tell us more about the…
Oracle buys Virtual Iron
Word on the street is that Oracle has bought Virtual iron. At the end of last week and the beginning of this week there were rumors that Oracle signed a letter of intent to acquire Virtual Iron. Yesterday one of my tweets already reported that…
There is no such thing as a free lunch
XenServer Enterprise for free? Anne Jan and I were asked last week ,while doing work at our companies Headquarters, how we thought about Citrix giving away XenServer Enterprise for free and positions it as “XenServer a complete free Enterprise Virtual Infrastructure solution”. So I asked…
Managing VI3 with SCVMM ?
Erik pointed me to an article from Eric Grey (must be the name that makes it good :P) on VCritical about using System Center Virtual Machine Manager for the management of your VMware virtual infrastructure. Although Microsoft is advertising this as one of the good…
vCenter Server heartbeat available now
This morning my twitter beeped and showed a message form Eric Sloof. The message read VMware vCenter heartbeat released.Finally VMware released their new product to ensure high availability for the VMware vCenter Server which they presented at VMworld Europe 2009 at the end of February….
VMware View vs Terminal Services
Today VMworld.com released a great video of Brian Madden’s ‘VMware View vs Terminal Services‘ presentation at VMworld Europe 2009. I watched it and it is a very humoristic presentation and it is by no means a pro-VMware story. But the future Brian sees and the…
VMware data security best practices
Securing your IT infrastructure is always an ongoing process. One of the best practices that VMware encourages is to renew the SSL keys used for communication between VMware products. The renewal of SSL keys periodically, helps to improve data security of your systems. While reading…
New articles published for week ending 3/8/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com