Palo Alto plane crash: Power outage, VMware Support still available
According to news reports a small plane has crashed in Palo Alto this morning, causing a power outage. At 7:50 AM, shortly after take-off a small plane crashed into the power lines and exploded on impact, killing all three people onboard which were all employees…
Finally received VCP 4 certificate & benefits
Regularly I receive question from worried colleagues who have passed their VCP410 exam but haven’t received their certificate and welcome kit yet. The only answer I had until now was the one I picked up on the VMware communities website stating that VMware had delayed…
VMworld 2010 News – Talk to the experts
Today VMware organized the vForum 2010 in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, and during this day Dutch VMUG-er Viktor van den Berg interviewed Richard Garsthagen. Richard is one of the organizers of VMworld and during this interview he revealed some news about VMworld 2010. First of all…
vSphere 4: 9 months later
May 21th VMware released their new flagship product VMware vSphere 4 which should bring us tons of new features and performance improvements. But how is the vSphere experience almost 9 months later? Starting with the installation and setup experience, my personal experience with vSphere is…
And the winner is ……
January 3rd, Eric Siebert, started the Top 25 VMware/Virtualization bloggers contest. During two weeks everybody in the community could vote for their favorite Top 10 and the challenge was to get VMGuru.nl into the Top 25 and to knock Duncan Epping from the top spot…
VMware to acquire Zimbra
It was a rumor for some time but 45 minutes ago Steve Herrod, CTO of VMware, acknowledged that VMware has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra from Yahoo. First of all, for those of you that don’t know, Zimbra delivers open-source…
Vote VMGuru.nl!
Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land is running a new blog contest which let you decide who the most favorite blogger is. Can anyone knock Duncan Epping from the top spot? With the last elections VMGuru.nl entered the voting list so make us proud and kick…
The real value of Project VRC
About two weeks ago I attended a session at the VMware User Group meeting here in the Netherlands about Project VRC. After the presentation I asked myself: ‘What is the value of this project?‘. For you who don’t know what Project VRC is: “Project Virtual…
Best practices XenApp on vSphere
Based on the real life results when virtualizing XenApp I thought it was about time to summarize some of the best practices for virtualizing XenApp servers. Why we DO want to virtualize XenApp? For server consolidation: vSphere enables scale up XenApp deployments; For mixing server…
VMware View sizing & best practices
November 4th we published an article on Virtual Infrastructure best practices and the response was overwhelming. During the last month we received a lot of questions regarding best practices on VDI/VMware View. When I then read a comment from VMware’s evangelist, Richard Garsthagen, that the…
New articles published for week ending 12/20/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
New articles published for week ending 12/13/2009
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Dutch VMUG video extravaganza
Yesterday was the big day for over 600 VMware enthusiasts in the Netherlands because the fifth Dutch VMUG event took place at the Nieuwegein Business Center. As usual Eric Sloof from NTPro.nl performed his usual video extravaganza which can be viewed at his website. Eric created…
vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop @ DutchVMUG
The last breakout session we attended the XTG vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop, a quick way to get familiar with a new VMware product. The instructor first introduced us to the product and discussed some installation and configuration hints and tips. After that we quickly started…
Dutch VMUG Breakout 2 pictures
Pictures from Breakout session 2 by Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nu) can be found here. Breakouts in sessions 2: – Virtualiseren van Exchange by Jan Willem Lammers – VMware – How to monitor, manage & optimize a virtual environment by Danny Claproth – Vizioncore – Project VRC…