The VMworld 2009 Lab Cloud
Yesterday we showed you how VMware designed and build an awesome infrastructure just for one week of VMworld 2009. Awesome figures! 776 ESX servers, 37TB RAM, 6.208 cores, 348TB storage and 37.248 virtual machines. But what is this infrastructure used for? Well VMware primarily uses…
Long distance VMotion
Just as Microsoft is proud to present users with live migration in Hyper-V 2.0, VMware announces that it supports long distance VMotion up to 200 Kilometers. As a VMware Premier Partner we already heard this was coming but we never realized it would be available…
VMware View software PCoIP demo
VMware announced their effort to produce a software implementation of PCoIP together with Terradici at VMworld 2009 in Cannes. Since then I have been anxiously waiting for a demo or beta. During today’s keynote at VMworld 2009 VMware gave a demo of their long awaited…
Building and maintaining the VMworld 2009 Datacenter
It is becoming a sequel, the datacenter VMware has build for this weeks VMworld 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In addition to our two previous articles (art1, art2), today we found two very nice videos loaded with tons of techno porno! The…
Virtual Machine configuration maximums
I’m in IT for more then 12 years and during that period I learned, never to trust something another professional tells you. So as I am studying for my VCP410 exam, coming Friday, I came across the Virtual Machine configuration maximums. I saw the info…
VMware launches vCloud Express
Today in his keynote speech Paul Maritz announced vCloud Express. vCloud Express is an Infrastructure as a Service offering which is delivered by the leading VMware service provider partners like Logica, BlueLock, MelbourneIT and Terremark. It provides reliable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure that ensures compatibility with…
Citrix HDX 3D with host-side GPU-based encoding
Yesterday Citrix announced HDX 3D which is an enhancement to the ICA protocol which, according to Citrix, delivers 3D applications by only using one-tenth of the bandwidth. This is fierce competition for VMware’s PCoIP which they developed with Teradici and which VMware will demo at…
VMware GO & VMware vCenter Product Family
At VMworld 2009, which started yesterday, VMware launched two new products. VMware GO and VMware vCenter Product Family. VMware launched VMware GO which is targets small to medium sized businesses. VMware GO is a free beta service that makes it simple for clients to get…
VMware vSphere 4 video contest. And the winner is ……..
As they do every year, VMware has asked their customers to put their creativity to the test. The assigment was to create a video that shows why business-critical applications run best on VMware vSphere 4. Last week VMware announced the five winners and from August…
VCP410 booked
Today was the first day to become a VCP on VMware vSphere 4. I wanted to become one of the first VCP’s on vSphere 4 within our company and tried to schedule the exam last week but due to voucher problems I didn’t succeed. A…
Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d released
Last week Iomega announced a new NAS appliance called the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. It is based on EMC storage technologies and contains four SATA-300 drivebays. With a storage capacity of 2, 4 and 8 TB it is the ideal NAS appliance for small businesses, distributed…
VMware View: Design Best Practices course
Last weekend VMware launched a new course called ‘VMware View: Design Best Practices’. It’s a hands-on training course which explores the foundations of designing VMware View architectures and is meant for System architects, system administrators, IT managers, and individuals responsible for designing VMware View architectures….
vSphere 4 HA may not work with certain IP addresses
Filtering through my e-mail after a short, one week, holiday I ran into an e-mail from one of my colleagues pointing me to VMware KB Article 1013013. This KB article describes one of the first patches for vCenter Server 4. The problem is that High…
Virtualization increases risk of data loss?
‘Virtualization increases risk of data loss?‘ Let it be very clear that this is not my opinion but a quote from an article published today by the ‘Automatiserings Gids’ (NL) in which it quotes James Lyne, security specialist at Sophos. Lyne made his statements during…
Great new VMware whitepapers
Usually everybody is on holiday during this period and because of that we lack new projects and great news. ‘Komkommertijd‘, as we call it in the Netherlands. Fortunately (for us) Duncan Epping, known from Yellow-Bricks, isn’t on holiday (yet) and he pointed me to some…