Horizon View in a stretched cluster environment: Can I have that? No!
Ever since VMware started selling View as a desktop solution, we’ve had these discussions with colleagues and customers. You probably are familiar with the topic: Many companies have more than one location, but they all want to manage their IT infrastructure as if it was…
Look at the Horizon! VMware’s Horizon Suite is finally here
For years VMware has been busy creating a range of Horizon-like products. At VMworld 2009 there was already a preview of what the folks in Palo Alto were working on. Since then a lot has changed, AppBlast was shown, Octopus came (and went again). 30…
Upgrading your vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.0 to 5.1 – A Howto
VMGuru used to run on an “ESXi only” install with no extra management. It’s a single server in a data center in Amsterdam, so there never was a need for a vCenter Server. When the VMware Octopus Beta started in which we participated, the deployment…
VMguru.nl at new hosting
Last Friday we moved to a new co-locating party. We experienced too much drop out in performance, connectivity or even power in the datacenter of our previous hoster. Therefore we decided to move to a first class hosting party, TransIP. As far as we can…
Impressions of VMworld 2012 Europe in Barcelona Day 3
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QNAP announces firmware update with full VMware VAAI support.
Yesterday at the VMworld 2012 Europe event in Barcelona I spoke with an engineer from QNAP at their booth. He told us that QNAP will be introducing a new firmware release for their Pro line. The version number will probably be 3.8 (current…
VMworld Europe 2012 – General Session Wednesday 2012
Transcript of this mornings General Session with Steve Herrod. There are all kinds of discussions about access, applications and infrastructrures and how that looks. In the past the pc was the device of access. IT could dictate the rules. Now the user…
Impressions of VMworld 2012 Europa at Barcelona Day 2
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VMware releases version 5.1 of vSphere and vCloud Director
Today VMware announced a whole list of new major releases of their product portfolio. A few big features up front? How about these: No more vRAM limits, vRAM = GONE vMotion without shared storage the MonsterVM got even stronger, going for 64 vCPU’s,…
Yet another VMware View book.. But wait, this one is different!
As a vExpert, we have a special place with VMware. Not just socially, but really, in the community pages. Usually this place is filled with news about new stuff coming out, reviews about software, technical questions, opinions and so on. A few months ago Mike…
VMguru.nl VMworld US & Europe 2012 – Trailer
See you in Frisco or Barca :)
Review: QNAP TS-869-Pro with VMware
A couple of weeks ago we unboxed the QNAP TS-869-Pro to test-drive in our test lab. As we concluded in this article, we quite liked the appliance. It has a solid build quality, the management software is really easy to use and with a bit…
Unboxing the QNAP TS-869-Pro TurboNAS
A while ago, the folks at QNAP sent us one of their NAS devices for a test run around the block. You can read the article over here. Now, we were quite fond of the device and the capabilities and QNAP was pretty pleased with…
VMGuru.nl at VMUG.Be – The Blogger Edition: Register now!
The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is…
VMGuru.nl prolongues the vExpert status in 2012
The word is out! The judges have decided and we here at VMGuru.nl are very happy to conclude that Edwin, Erik and myself can call ourselves vExpert 2012 again! This year, the process was a bit different, as VMware decided that vExperts can be appointed…