Available now: VMware vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide
Last Friday, VMware released their vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide v1.0. It’s a great and extensive guide to completely secure your VMware vSphere 5 Infrastructure from ESXi host to vCenter server and from the vNetwork to virtual machine. The coincidence is that yesterday I had…
Great VMUG Belgium event
Last Friday Alex and I were invited to speak at the Belgium VMUG. Erik Schils, the Belgian VMUG leader, had setup a VMUG conference at Cisco in Diegem. After a 3 hour drive to Belgium, the conference turned out to be pretty busy, Erik managed…
vCenter Operations Manager for View
VMware is rapidly expanding the possibilities of their new management suite VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCops) with their recent release of VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View. This new addition provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of a VMware View virtual desktop…
Update: Storage optimization with Atlantis
Since my article on ‘Storage Optimization with Atlantis‘ on April 3rd, I’ve been in contact with Atlantis and got some additional information I would like to share with you. First of all, in the article it says the following: Another point of interest is, does…
A new entry-level FlexPod is born
NetApp and Cisco have announced an extension to their joint FlexPod solution with a package which better suits smaller companies. The current FlexPod solution consists of a Cisco UCS server platform and a Cisco network infrastructure combined with a NetApp FAS32xx or 62xx storage solution….
It’s a VMware day today.
Today I was working at home when the Easter bunny dropped me two packages. It turned out to be a VMware day today. The first package was the VMware VCP5 certificate for my exam two months ago. The second package contained two VMware vExpert certificates…
Storage optimization with Atlantis
In our quest for native PC performance in a VDI solution we are always looking for better, faster and simpler storage solutions. To improve storage performance several vendors have introduced different solutions like controller cache, SSD disks, flash memory. Last week I received an e-mail…
New VMware View Client for iPad
Today VMware released the new version of their View Client for the iPad. The VMware View Client for iPad is the first iPad client with support for the PCoIP for tight integration with VMware View and increased flexibility for the end-user. This client enables end-users to…
Win a free pass to VMworld or TechEd 2012
Veeam, one of our site sponsors, gives you a change to win a free pass to this years VMworld or TechEd. No difficult questions or questionaires, just sign up to win and Veeam even helps you connect with your fellow Virtualization Lovers. Enter now to…
Passed VCP510 twice
No, don’t worry. I have not taken the VCP510 exam twice because I wanted to get a higher score. This week Edwin and I both passed our VCP510 exam this week. February is almost over and we both had to pass because otherwise we had…
IBM 5000V Distributed Virtual Switch
Finally there’s a second VMware partner who decided to create a third part distributed virtual switch for VMware vSphere. On February 14th IBM announced their IBM 5000V Distributed Virtual Switch. The planned availability date for this product is February 23, 2012. The IBM System Networking…
VMGuru.nl at Microsoft’s Techdays 2012
Last weekend I received an invitation to attend the Microsoft Techdays 2012 in The Hague (Netherlands). Because I’d like to keep a broad view and I want to be able to evaluate and judge techniques based on a complete solution, I changed my calender and…
Teradici APEX 2800 PCoIP Server Offload Card available now
Today Teradici announced the availability of their long awaited Server Offload Card, the Teradici APEX 2800. VDI implementations are typically constrained by the servers’ CPUs. The many tasks a CPU performs, together with PCoIP® protocol image encoding, limits the number of virtual machines that can…
Hyper-V removed from OpenStack
The new version of OpenStack, which will be released in Q2 of 2012, does not support Microsoft Hyper-V anymore. The developers have had enough with the buggy code. One of the developers of OpenStack has written a patch with which the Hyper-V code and support…
Trend Micro Deep Security 8 available now
At VMworld last year Trend Micro already announced their new version Deep Security 8, but now it is finally available. Deep Security is specifically designed for virtual environments. Its agent-less architecture addresses AV storms, minimizes operational complexity of security and allows organizations to increase VM…