New articles published for week ending 7/5/2009
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RES software
A few days ago Edwin and me had some employees from RES software visiting us, giving us a demo of the RES Powerfuse and RES Wisdom products. While both these products introduce interresting features, RES Powerfuse is the one I would like to eleberate on…
Free Hyper-V training from Microsoft
I use TWeetDeck on my laptop to follow the news concerning virtualization. vSphere, Hyper-V and Xen have their own column. It’s because of these queries I noticed a tweet from @ilijabrajkovic about a free Hyper-V training from Microsoft.
New articles published for week ending 6/28/2009
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Our first XEN-Experience, a XenServer 5.5 testdrive
As I am in the final week before my holiday and all projects are finished, I thought it might be a good idea to check out the competition. So I downloaded the free version of Citrix’s XenServer 5.5 to see what the fuss is all…
New articles published for week ending 6/21/2009
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Version update
This morning I was bored a bit so I upgraded the website to the new version and updated some plugins too. If all went well, you should not have noticed anything and services should be up as usual. Cheers, Froos
New VMGuru.nl street sign released
The VMGuru.nl-crew :-D congratulates the VMGuru.nl founder and his family with their beautiful new home. After receiving notice the founder of VMGuru.nl got the keys to his new home, we urged to apply a street name change to the local government. Unfortunately the request to…
VMware EVC cluster, what is that?
I have had several customers asking me for advice on what to do with new ESX hosts who should be joined into the VMware cluster, but after adding to the cluster problems with vMotion arose. It just didn’t work anymore because of some minor CPU…
Vote VMGuru.nl for Top VMware blogs
We all know Eric Siebert from his vLaunchPad were he publishes his VMware Top 20 blogs. Yesterday Eric started an election to determine the Top 5 in VMware blogs. VMGuru.nl is not on the list yet and I doubt if we could enter the Top…
New articles published for week ending 6/14/2009
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Hyper-V: Do you want to run HA OR Linux?
Last night, after my son’s first birthday, I checked my missed twitter messages and a retweet from Duncap Epping caught my eye. It was a link to an article from Eric Gray on vCritical about HA for Linux guests on Hyper-V. Now you will probably…
Get Ready for all Microsoft virtualization products? Why should I?
Yesterday I attended the ‘TechNet – Get Ready for all Microsoft virtualization products’ session in Utrecht (NL). This was a new style paid (€99,-) Technet session, max of 20-30 professionals in a classroom. The program consisted of Hyper-V, App-V, Med-V, Terminal services and System Center…
Tripwire introduces vWire
Yesterday Tripwire Announced their new VI monitoring and automation tool, vWire, which gives you full control over virtual infrastructure. With vWire you monitor the health of your virtual infrastructure, correlate this information to provide context and insight into potential issues, and act to prevent and…
Red Hat subscriptions on a VMware infrastructure
The world of licenses and subscription models is a complex whole, by adding a virtual component it even got more complex. Virtual machines aren’t bound to one physical server and can move freely across several physical servers or even in and out of a cloud….