New articles published for week ending 8/9/2009
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vCenter vs VDI?
It sounds a bit strange, ‘vCenter vs VDI‘, as both are VMware products but it’s true. As usual a twitter contact pointed me to a VMware KB article which states the following. ‘VirtualCenter tasks that conflict with VMware Virtual Desktop functionality‘ My first thought was…
New articles published for week ending 8/2/2009
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New memory management HP DL360/380 G6
Scouting the Internet on information about the new G6 evolution of HP servers I ran into a valuable article from Martijn Lohmeijer’s blog. In a lessons learned article he warns about the new memory management in the new HP ProLiant DL360/380 G6. We all know…
VMware vs Citrix @ Burton Group Catalyst event
Burton Group is in their last day of their annual Catalyst Conference in San Diego (July 27 – 31, 2009). Wednesday they had their announced VMware vs Citrix battle and I just watched their video feed. It was a very interesting ‘battle’ between VMware’s Scott…
10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
So has anyone come up to you to wish you a Happy Sysadmin Day today? No? Why not? You deserve it! Even if you are a Virtual Sysadmin! Like most Virtual Sysadmins, you spend your days (and sometimes your nights and weekends) installing hypervisors, creating…
Having trouble digging through the VMware View log files?
As you may have read here on VMGuru.nl we are great fans of VMware View and spend a lot of time testing and implementing various versions. One thing which is still missing, despite the new(er) versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1, is a proper way to view…
Veeam nWorks 5.0 released
Do you want to monitor your VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager or HP Operations manager? No Problem! Veeam just released their new nWorks 5.0 which has native support for vSphere, vCenter 4.0 and ESX 4.0. It allows for preconfigured monitoring…
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has been Released To Manufacturing
I was checking out the news and was checking out the competition on Microsoft’s Virtualization Team Blog and ran into some interesting news. Microsoft just announced that their Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft hyper-V Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing. I guess…
Vacation update (week 27-29)
The post frequency on VMGuru.nl has been a bit low because I have been on ‘holiday’ for the last three weeks. During these three weeks I’ve been very busy moving to my new house. Now I’m back and the first thing to do is to…
New articles published for week ending 7/19/2009
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New articles published for week ending 7/12/2009
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Our first XEN-Experience, a XenServer 5.5 testdrive
As I am in the final week before my holiday and all projects are finished, I thought it might be a good idea to check out the competition. So I downloaded the free version of Citrix’s XenServer 5.5 to see what the fuss is all…
Vote VMGuru.nl for Top VMware blogs
We all know Eric Siebert from his vLaunchPad were he publishes his VMware Top 20 blogs. Yesterday Eric started an election to determine the Top 5 in VMware blogs. VMGuru.nl is not on the list yet and I doubt if we could enter the Top…