VMworld 2010 vExpert CTO meeting
At the end of the first day of VMworld 2010 we as vExperts got a nice treat from our spiritual father and mentor, John Troyer ;-) John arranged a meeting with VMware CTO, Steve Herrod. After a brief introduction from John and…
VMworld 2010 Keynote session
The second day of VMworld Europe 2010, which is actually day one for none VMware Partners, as usual, the key note session opens with a video. This time, it’s a ‘fake’ documentary discussing ‘What is the cloud?‘ The video compares “cloud computing”…
Building the VMworld 2010 Solution Exchange
On the Solution Exchange floor you will find almost every company that has something to offer to the virtualization solution. Next to the sessions this is the place to be to learn about new products and do some networking. As you can…
VMworld 2010 Partner keynote
. For Partners, VMworld Europe 2010, started today with the keynote session. Maurizio Carli opened the keynote session welcoming all VMware Partners. VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen will host more than 6000 attendees in the coming four days, 1500 of which are VMware Partners….
VMGuru.nl, 13th in Top 25 VMware blogs
We are very proud and honored to tell you that VMGuru.nl finished 13th in Eric Siebert’s blogger contest on vSphere-land.com which was won by Duncan Epping! Last week we all asked you to vote for us if you appreciated our blog and apparently a lot…
t minus 20 days
We are finally going to VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen! No thanks to our employer but many many thanks to Richard Garsthagen who provides us blogger invitations. So we are counting down the days as we are very exited to attend VMworld again this year. I’m…
How to: Upgrade to VMware View 4.5
With the release of VMware View 4.5 comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation to this new version. The upgrade is not that difficult but because I promised you all a ‘How to upgrade to VMware View 4.5‘ I will provide this service anyway….
VMware vSphere 4.1 and View 4.5 launch news
Last Thursday we attended the VMware vSphere 4.1, vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 launch event at Amerongen (NL). We already brought you all news regarding vSphere and vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 but we heard some interesting thing we would like to share with you….
Blog competition, vote VMGuru.nl #1
It is time again for a new top blogger voting survey. Eric Siebert started the second competition of this year and again your votes will decide the winners and help decide the Top 25 VMware bloggers. Last time we, at VMGuru.nl, were very honored to…
Download VMware View 4.5 now
After the announcement of VMware View 4.5 at VMworld 2010, VMware released the new version of View yesterday. If you are interested in the new features and improvements see our previous post. If you want download an evaluation of the VMware View 4 .5 visit…
VMworld 2010 update
This week VMworld 2010 is held but unfortunately VMGuru.nl is not there to bring you the latest news from San Fransisco. But of course we scan the Internet, follow twitter and have close contact with VMware personnel on-site. First of all, if you can…
VMware View 4.5 announced
Today, at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, VMware announced the launch of VMware View 4.5. VMware View 4.5 is packed with loads of new features which increases VMware View use cases and definitively narrows the gap with Citrix XenDesktop. In fact, Chris Wolf from Gartner…
Exchange CCR cluster on VMware with iSCSI
A few weeks ago I got an assignment to review a colleague’s infrastructure design based on VMware. The design was fine (because they used my design document as template :-) ) but one thing triggered me. There was a special port group on one of…
New Enterprise Hypervisor comparison
Last year we published an Enterprise Hypervisor comparison and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. During the last few weeks I received many update requests so I decided to update the old hypervisor comparison but this time I changed the setup…
How to: Optimize guests for VMware View
We’ ve been doing quite a few VMware View POC’s and the question that colleagues keep asking me is: ‘How do I optimize my Windows guest OS for use with VMware View?’. First of all, I primarily use x86 versions of Windows XP and 7….