VMworld 2011
OK, VMware enthusiasts all over the world, grab your schedules and write this down:
VMware View feature request
Last week I visited a new project at which the client wants to virtualize their desktops. During the kickoff the client mentioned that they use a variety of applications, clients and operating systems and want to deliver all these desktop flavors to their users. Nothing…
Best of 2010
We’re less than twelve hours away from 2011 and we’re bombarded with Top 2010 rankings. And with a great 2010 behind us I can’t resist to do a VMGuru – Best of 2010. My personal highlights for 2010 are my new job at Imtech, the…
Live from the VMUG.
Today is V-day, the day of the annual dutch VMUG and the complete VMGuru.nl will be there to report live from Nieuwegein (NL). So check out VMGuru.nl regularly today to see and hear what happens at the VMUG event. You can also follow us on…
Choosing VMFS block size with vSphere 4.1
Last month I regularly received requests from colleagues concerning VMFS block sizes. Although it’s a simple setting, it still raises a lot of questions and the introduction of vSphere 4.1 has somewhat changed the game. The block size on a VMFS datastore defines two things: The…
Only two weeks until an impressive dutch VMUG
It’s only two weeks until the annual dutch VMUG with a very impressive speaker line-up. Many international speakers are going to deliver great sessions, workshops and Q/A-sessions at the Nieuwegein Business Center (NBC) on December 10th. If you’re interest and work involves virtualization and you…
Challenge: vCenter, EVC and Distributed Virtual switches.
Yesterday a colleague asked me to add four blades from our old test environment to our new VMware vSphere 4.1 test environment. Of course this was no problem (yet), I had an hour or two to spare, so I started immediately. Download the ESXi 4.1…
Support Alert: Issue with IBM hardware running ESX/ESXi 4.1 (update)
A few minutes ago On November 12th VMware issued a Support Alert regarding an issue that affects users with IBM hardware, running ESX/ESXi 4.1. The symptoms are mentioned below. When using IBM x3650 M3 or BladeCenter HS22V servers, you may experience these symptoms: HBAs stop…
And the winners are …
A week ago, Arjan, initiated a VMworld Great Prize Draw giving away some of the items he collected at VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen. Because we had some extra items we introduced an additional fourth prize. I got the honors of naming the winners, so I…
I’m VMGuru.nl and I’ve just been overhauled!
Because we experienced more and more problems with the placement of our content we decided to give the website an overhauling. We changed the theme we started with two years ago and replaced it with a cleaner and fresher look with two sidebars. I hope…
VMworld Great Prize Draw!
When I saw the statistics that Erik published yesterday I was very pleased to see that my contributions to the VMGuru.nl site grew the most of all. When I joined the contributors more than a year ago from now, I never thought blogging for the…
McAfee MOVE anti-virus
Last week we had a meeting with a McAfee Sales Engineer and he told us something I have been waiting for for a long time. McAfee now has a product especially for virtualized environments, McAfee MOVE (Management for Optimized Virtual Environments). After Trend Micro, McAfee…
VMGuru.nl 2 year anniversary
Due to VMworld 2010, my job interviews and the problems with our Zimbra mail server we haven’t had the time to ‘celebrate’ our 2 year anniversary. So a bit late. Two years ago, in October 2008, we started our website/blog called VMGuru.nl and we had…
VMworld 2010 VMware vExpert panel
Yesterday I was blogging at the Bloggers Lounge at VMworld 2010 when John Troyer came in searching for attendees for his next VMworld TV item, the VMware vExperts panel. John asked me, Alex Mittell (xtravirt.com) and Maish Saidel-Keesing (technodrone.blogspot.com) to join him…
VMworld 2010 IBM product demo
Today we visited the IBM booth at the VMworld 2010 Solution Exchange and they showed some great new technology. With the new IBM rack server- and blade server series it’s possible to stack the server or blade with a memory tray or…