iSCSI Super Friends
Since last week I’ve got a new assignment which is a long way from home. Next to the downsides of traveling 5 hours a day and staying in hotels, it certainly has advantages. During my 5 hour drive or when I’m staying in a hotel…
Virtual machine resources: Less is more!
This week a colleague called me with a VMware ESX problem. He’s doing a Exchange 2007 implementation and he configured a virtual machine which should function as the Mailbox server. He was complaining that the virtual machine took 13 to 15 minutes just to boot…
VMware Virtualization Forum 2009 – 10 & 11 November
During the coming two days it’s all about the VMware Virtualization Forum 2009. VMware Virtualization Forum event is a free, interactive full day event where you can learn about virtual infrastructure from experts, industry analysts and companies like yours. No matter what your company size,…
New articles published for week ending 11/08/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Virtual Infrastructure best practices
[Updated: 8-11-2009 10:00] Lately I keep receiving questions from colleagues regarding virtual infrastructure design using VMware products. So I decided to sum up the best practices I use when designing a new virtual infrastructure. Some of the best practices are based on numbers and calculations…
VMware View 4 launch November 9th, GA November 16th
Today I received an invitation for a ‘What’s new in VMware View 4’ training. According to this invitation the release of VMware’s new version of View including the long awaited PCoIP will be release November 16th. That is a week later then the date mentioned…
New articles published for week ending 11/01/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
New VMware Partner program, the hunt for competencies
Earlier this year VMware announced their new partner program. In the past there were a whole bunch of titles/statuses you could achieve at VMware, VIP or VAC, Premier, Enterprise or Professional, VAC-only. That’s all going to change. The requirements to become a Premier, Enterprise or…
Emulex releases 10Gb/s Ethernet and iSCSI adapter
Today Emulex announced the general availability of their new OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) Product Family, specifically the OCe10102-I 10Gb/s Ethernet iSCSI Adapter and OCe10102-N 10Gb/s Ethernet Adapter are very interesting. The Emulex OneConnect UCNA is a single-chip, high performance 10Gb/s Ethernet adapter that…
New articles published for week ending 10/25/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
vFoglight training
My week started on a down with me being ill for two days but it finished on a high with two days of Vizioncore vFoglight training. The training was given by Paul Jackson, an external consultant, with a bit of support of Danny Claproth from…
New articles published for week ending 10/18/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Thanks CDG, for pimping my life!
. Last Tuesday was a very good day for me. First of all because the VMware Partner Forum 2009 was very interesting and we got a lot of valuable information but most of all because I won an XBOX360 at the SBK08 competition at the…
VMware Partner Forum 2009
Today was a special day, VMGuru.nl celebrated it’s 1 year anniversary and to celebrate VMware organized a party, how thoughtful ;) Seriously, today we attended the VMware Partner Forum at Bussum in the Netherlands. So at 5:45 my alarm rang because we had to be…
VMGuru.nl 1 year anniversary
One year ago, October 13th, we announced our new website/blog called VMGuru.nl and October 15th we posted our first article ‘No guest customization after upgrade to Update 2’. Much has change since then…. The birth of VMGuru.nl When, in August 2008, I changed my Internet…