Frame the VMworld Europe shirt!
The slogan for VMworld Europe 2009 was ‘Virtually anything is possible‘ and after filling out the questionaire we all received a shirt with this slogan on it. So is virtually anything possible? Apparently it is virually impossible to create a good VMworld shirt! Gabrie already…
VMware Powerpoint and Visio shapes
A few weeks ago I downloaded the new ‘Diagram & Icon library’ from VMware, with this you can create the most amazing presentations. But what about Visio drawings to be used in design documents? I did have a Visio stencil with a few VMware shapes…
vCenter 2.5 update 4 restores ‘vmkusage’
With the release of ESX 3 and VirtualCenter 2 we got a lot of new features but we lost ‘vmkusage’, a graphical interface which was a great help in solving problems. But today I read the release notes of vCenter 2.5 update 4 and now…
Centric promoted to VIP Premier Partner!
Today I got some great news! Our employer, Centric, has been promoted to VMware VIP Premier Partner! This is great news as there are only 3 other Premier Partners in the Netherlands, SLTN, PQR and Imtech ICT Brocom. This is a great acknowledgment of our…
VI Toolkit for Java (Technology Preview) available
VMware puts a lot of effort into the development of toolkits so you can write your own programs for the virtual infrastructure. This morning all people who downloaded the VI Toolkit for Java received an e-mail stating that the technology preview of the next version…
New articles published for week ending 3/1/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Back home!
life is hard.. one minute you’re at the french Riviera (Nice/Cannes,17 degrees Celcius, sunny) and the next minute you’re struck by reality (Amsterdam, 5 degrees Celcius, drizzle). Grissa and myself went to Schiphol Airport to pick the boys up. Fortunately they had a good flight,…
VMworld Europe 2009 – Au revoir
Last night we finished publishing the last two videos and now it’s Friday Febr 27 8:15, we are eating breakfast and getting ready to leave Cannes. Our flight leaves at 12:05 and we hope to touch down at Schiphol Airport at 14:20. We had a…
VMworld Europe 2009 – THE party
VMworld Europe 2009 party It was an excellent party again. Just look at all the pictures already published by various people. You could hardly tell that there were that many people in the Palais to party. Like someone said “VMware engineers know how to party”…
VMworld Europe 2009 – VMware ‘Unplugged’ [text]
This year the VMworld organization organized a ‘VMworld Unplugged’. The idea was to let the attendees ask questions to a panel. The members of this panel were: Paul Maritz, Maritizio Carli, Tod Nielsen and Steve Herrod. You could ask questions by microphone or send them…
VMworld Europe 2009 – vExpert awards
As you probably read earlier VMware started a new program, vExpert. Today both Erik and me got the mail from John Troyer with: “Congratulations. You received a vExpert award!’ This is great news as there are only 25 vExperts in the Netherlands and 300 worldwide….
VMworld Europe 2009 – EcoShell introduction
At the booth of Vizioncore Scott Herold gave a presentation and demonstration about the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI). The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI) is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold. The goal of The VESI community is…
VMworld Europe 2009 – vSphere
VMware uses the name vSphere for their Virtualisation Infrastructure product also known as ESX. Here in Cannes in the hands on labs I have used the new interface and some of its nifty features. You have to get used to the new interface, but when…
VMworld Europe 2009 – vCenter Data Recovery hands-on lab
Yesterday I tried out the VMware vCenter Data Recovery Appliance in a hands on lab. It’s a disk-based backup and recovery solution that enables quick, simple and complete data protection for virtual machines. I didn’t have to load an agent on the virtual machines since…
VMworld Europe 2009 – Free t-shirt @ VMTN meet & greet
Duncan Epping was a bit disappointed with the number of people who turned up at the VMTN meet & greet at the Community Lounge. So as a incentive he will give a free t-shirt to everyone that comes and drops a question to the Experts…