VMware vExpert 2013 !
VMGuru.nl is very proud to announce that for the fifth year in a row, we can proudly put the VMware vExpert logo on our site. Alex, Edwin and myself have been given the vExpert award 2013 for our contributions to the VMware virtualization community. This is…
Veeam Back-up & Replication v7
Today Veeam announced 2 more secret features of their new and improved version of Veeam Backup & Replication, version v7.0. The ‘Back-up from storage snapshots’ and ‘Build-in WAN Acceleration’ features now complete the list of 9 new features. The new version now contains the following new features,…
VMware Horizon View 5.2 Performance and Best Practices and 3D graphics
At VMGuru.nl we’ve done a lot of articles on VDI performance and best practices. Recently I’ve done an article on ‘How to improve VMware View video performance‘ and Edwin did an article on ‘Boosting Google maps and video with VMware View‘. Researching the possibilities and…
Looking for a reliable hypervisor?
Every time a vendor releases a new hypervisor, it’s always more reliable and stable than all the previous versions and certainly better than the competition. But was the previous version all that bad? Of course with the addition of more and more advanced features it…
vSphere 5 memory management explained (part 2)
As I said earlier this week, VMware memory management is still a topic which a lot of VMware administrators don’t understand. Tuesday I discussed the virtual machine memory allocation graphs. Today we will deal with VMware vSphere uses transparent page sharing (TPS), memory compression, host…
vSphere 5 memory management explained (part 1)
VMware memory management is still a topic which a lot of VMware administrators don’t understand. I often come across people who have no idea when VMware vSphere uses transparent page sharing (TPS), memory compression, host swapping or ballooning. They even mention disabling or removing the ballooning…
Hyper-V? Not in my datacenter… (continued)
In 2008 I wrote an article named “Hyper-V, not in my datacenter!” which was based on Hyper-V version 1. In 2009 I wrote an article named “Hyper-V, the laughter continues” and “ESX vs Hyper-V mythbusting myth” which was based on Hyper-V version 2. Microsoft promised/warned…
VMware Fling – View Pool Manager
Yesterday I was busy trying some things in my VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment and after a while I got tired of repeating the same tasks on different desktop pools over and over again. Looking for a way to make things easier I came across…
VMGuru.nl #4 Favorite Independent Blog
Last month we asked to vote for us if you appreciated our blog and apparently a lot of you did. This year almost 1.300 votes were recorded compared to 1.200 last year, also the total number of blogs on the list increased from 187 to…
Do you want to attend TechEd 2013?
So you want to attend TechEd 2013? In March, Veeam is giving away a free pass to TechEd 2013. All you have to do is register. The winner will be selected on March 18, so you have two weeks left to win! …
Please vote VMGuru.nl, #1 VMware/virtualization blog 2013
Last year VMGuru.nl dropped for the 13th to the 19th spot in the top VMware/virtualization blogs 2012. Now, it is time again to vote the top VMware/virtualization blogs for 2013. Please help us to reclaim the 13th position or even leap into the top 10!…
VMware acquires Virsto Software
Today, VMware announced the acquisition of Virsto Software, a company which creates storage optimization software for virtual environments. Any administrator will tell you that managing performance and data services for virtual machines can be challenging, especially in I/O-intensive environments like virtual desktops. With Virsto storage…
Software Defined Datacenter Roadshow (Benelux)
Would like to hear more about Software Defined Datacenters from experts like Frank Denneman, Mike Laverick, Cormac Hogan, Kamau Wanguhu and many others? VMware and IBM are organizing an awesome event in the Benelux. It is a full day event and it is free for…
PCoIP Support for Microsoft RDS
This week Teradici, creator of the PCoIP protocol, released a technology preview of their new product named Teradici Arch. Teradici Arch is asoftware-based solution that enables the use of the PCoIP protocol for Microsoft RDS as an alternative to Microsoft RDP. This should provide better user experience…
How to improve VMware View video performance
During the last weeks we’ve been busy implementing a large VMware View deployment for one customer and planning an even larger VMware View deployment for another customer. At the first site we ran into some video performance issues which we definitely want to avoid during…