Can we beat Kasparov with a single virtual machine?
14 years ago, on May 11, 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue II chess-computer won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer achieving 11.38 GFLOPS running 30…
Cisco, a serious player in the server market
In the past, when I had to design a virtual infrastructure, I had a limited range of server hardware to pick from. Mainly HP and Dell or an occasional IBM server. But since the beginning of this year I can not bypass Cisco. It is…
Registration for VMworld Europe 2011 is open
Every year VMware is organizes VMworld. It offers attendees informative sessions and hands-on labs, plus access to a wealth of technology partners. The U.S. edition of VMworld takes place in the The Venetian in Las Vegas from August 29th until September 1st. The European edition…
The V-team is complete again!
After 5 years at Centric Alex has accepted a new challenge and on May 1st he will be following Edwin, Anne Jan and myself to Imtech ICT. At Imtech ICT his new job will be Solution Architect. We are very excited that Alex is coming…
Finally, it’s a success!
After a busy and hectic weekend VMGuru.nl is back online. During the first two years of VMGuru.nl Alex provided the hosting services. He was a member of a co-locating club and owned a personal web server with adequate bandwidth. But during the years our demands…
How to setup the vSphere client for iPad
Earlier today we reported that VMware has released it’s iPad client for vSphere. But how do you set it up? Below you will find the way how to setup the iPad access to your virtual environment. It is an easy two step process. First of…
vSphere client for iPad released
A few minutes ago VMware released their long awaited vSphere client for the iPad and it is available at the AppStore for FREE. VMware’s goal is to provide a tool which can be accessed anywhere to perform essential tasks and view performance metrics in a…
Cisco UCS competitive update webinar
Cisco has been around for years and years on the networking and security side but since a year or so they are a real upcoming player on the server market. Personally I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems first hand and WOW…
VMware View client for iPad released
A few minutes ago, VMware released the VMware View client for the iPad. As of today the VMware View client for the iPad is available from the Apple AppStore for free. The iPad View client fully supports PCoIP and contains a few unique new gestures….
VMware View 4.6 released
Last night VMware released the new version of VMware View. The new version 4.6 includes new features, product improvements and more than 160 bug fixes. Here is a list: Security servers PCoIP support Security servers now include a PCoIP Secure Gateway component which offers the…
Windows 7 unable to connect to View Connection Server
After installing the patches described in Microsoft Knowledge Base articles 2482017 or 2467023 Windows 7 clients are unable to connect from the View Client to the View Connection Server. According to a VMware Knowledge Base article there is a conflict with two security bulletins issued…
Love is in the air!
Today a real Valentines article. I always knew that Anne Jan is really in love with anything virtual and after last week I also knew that Anne Jan extended his love to the physical world with the Cisco UCS. But tonight between Cisco UCS and…
VMware released vSphere 4.1 Update 1
Tonight VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server 4.1. Update 1 for ESX/ESXi contains a few new/improved features: Enablement of Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) — ESXi 4.1 Update 1 can be configured to boot with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). This boot…
VMware ready for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Yesterday VMware announced that it is ready to deliver the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud Datacenter services. For now this is only available from BlueLock and Colt and through beta services from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free…
HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator
In May 2010 HP introduced the new HP Storageworks IO Accelerator modules for HP Blade and ProLiant servers. So what is this IO module. It is a mezzanine card that is available for HP C-class Blades or a PCI-e I/O card for HP ProLiant servers….