RAID 5 and 6 support for VMware VSA
Yesterday VMware announced that it will be supporting RAID 5 and 6 with their Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). With the release of vSphere 5, VMware also released their VSA, a shared storage solution for the SMB market. VMware VSA uses the local storage in each…
VMware vCloud Director design guidelines
After VMware vSphere and View, VMware vCloud Director is the next big thing to setup and customers start asking for it. But the problem is that the knowledge and available resources are limited. So for real life implementations of vCloud Director we have to rely…
VKernel vOps 4.5
On December 19th VKernel released version 4.5 of its vOps management software. vOps 4.5 addresses the increasing volume of routine virtual machine management tasks in virtualized environments. This increase is caused by the enormous growth in the number of virtual machines. Nowadays we provision many…
Top 5 – Best articles/videos
The past year has been great. The VMGuru.nl-crew posted 105 articles and 7 videos which have and been read by many visitors. This all resulted in 1.3M webpages served, 400.000 visits, 240.000 unique visitors and 556GB of traffic. Great numbers and steady growth over the…
Happy & virtual 2012!
This year has almost come to an end and what a year it has been. During 2011 VMware released a lot of new great products like vSphere 5, View 5, Workstation 8, Fusion 4, Horizon App Manager, vFabric Data Director, etc. We also visited some…
VMGuru.nl interview at VKernelTV
December 9th was the day of the annual dutch VMUG event in Nieuwegein (NL). It was a great day with many interesting sessions, labs, great people to meet and of course the MonsterVM. During the day Edwin and I had the chance to talk to…
PHD Virtual Back-up & Replication 5.3
Last month PHD Virtual released version 5.3 of their Backup and Replication and PHD Virtual has really stepped up their game with this new release. There are a handful of new features and improvements but the biggest improvement is the enhanced scalability and performance. The…
New PCoIP firmware released
Today VMware’s partner Teradici announced a significant new releases from their PCoIP zero client and host card firmware and the PCoIP Management Console. The following releases are now available for download on the Teradici support site (techsupport.teradici.com): Firmware 3.5.0 for PCoIP Zero Clients and PCoIP…
Updated Enterprise hypervisor comparison
During the last few years we published several Enterprise Hypervisor comparisons and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. With the release of vSphere 5, XenServer 6 and a service pack for Hyper-V it was time for an update. It very interesting to…
VKernel acquired by Quest
Just 15 minutes ago I heard the ‘news’ that, last Wednesday, VKernel was acquired by Quest Software. VKernel will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Quest, building, selling and marketing the same performance and capacity management solutions. So, it will be business as…
New ThinApp and Horizon Application Manager released
Last Wednesday, November 16th, VMware announced the availability of ThinApp 4.7 and Horizon App Manager 1.2. The combination of the two products enables cloud-based deployment of ThinApp packages with VMware Horizon Application Manager. ThinApp 4.7 includes the following features: The ThinApp Setup Capture wizard includes…
Check out vExpert Spotlight
Have you ever wondered how I rolled into the IT business, when I got involved with VMware, why I started VMGuru.nl and was rewarded vExpert 2009-2011? Today I’m in the vExpert Spotlight on the VMware Communities VMTN Blog. Check out: http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2011/11/vexpert-spotlight-erik-scholten.html
The return of VMTN?
Over the years there have been a lot of outcries in the VMware Community to re-instate the VMware Technology Network (VMTN). The VMTN started in 2005 and is much like Microsoft MSDN or TechNet, for a reduced yearly fee you could use the VMware software…
New VMware View clients for iPad and Android released
Today VMware released a new client for the iPad and Android devices. Version 1.2 is optimized for VMware View 5, has support for iOS 5 including AirPlay and contains presentation mode for use with external displays and AirPlay. VMware View Client for Android makes it…
VMware and Nvidia join forces
One of the announcements I missed at VMworld Europe 2011 in Copenhagen was the announcement of VMware and Nvidia delivering 3D graphics to VMware View. VMware announced that they are in a partnership with NVIDIA to deliver high-end virtual workstations with 3D graphics…