Hyper-V: Do you want to run HA OR Linux?
Last night, after my son’s first birthday, I checked my missed twitter messages and a retweet from Duncap Epping caught my eye. It was a link to an article from Eric Gray on vCritical about HA for Linux guests on Hyper-V. Now you will probably…
Get Ready for all Microsoft virtualization products? Why should I?
Yesterday I attended the ‘TechNet – Get Ready for all Microsoft virtualization products’ session in Utrecht (NL). This was a new style paid (€99,-) Technet session, max of 20-30 professionals in a classroom. The program consisted of Hyper-V, App-V, Med-V, Terminal services and System Center…
Tripwire introduces vWire
Yesterday Tripwire Announced their new VI monitoring and automation tool, vWire, which gives you full control over virtual infrastructure. With vWire you monitor the health of your virtual infrastructure, correlate this information to provide context and insight into potential issues, and act to prevent and…
Virtualization: from hype to foundation seminar (NL)
In June our employer, Centric, is organizing a virtualization seminar for current and future clients. The title is: ‘Virtualization: from hype to foundation’ or in dutch ‘Virtualisatie: van hype naar fundament’. The description and program (in dutch) can be found below (NL) Programma Direct…
VMware View 3.1 – Fun and Pain
For about three weeks ago I was asked by my colleague Erik Scholten to help him out with his VMware View project for our Service Center. I thought this is my change to explore the ins and –outs of VMware View. The infrastructure for VMware…
Is VMware becoming the bad guy?
It may be clear to you that we at VMGuru.nl are huge VMware fans but when we claim to inform you about all the virtualization related news, we owe it to you to bring positive as well as negative news about VMware, Microsoft, Citrix (2)…
VMware View performance issue
As you may have read we are busy implementing a VMware View environment and have encountered numerous chalenges already. Most of them have been solved by hard and innovative work or the upgrade from VMware View 3.0.1 to 3.1. Especially the upgrade to VMware View…
Do the math correctly
Browsing through Planet V12n I stumbled upon a great article by Steve Kaplan, which I didn’t want to keep from you. As we all know we’re in the midst of a hypervisor battle. VMware vs (Microsoft / Citrix). VMware focuses on their broad range of…
Want to become VCP on VMware vSphere 4?
May 21th VMware released their new flagship product VMware vSphere 4. With a new product comes a new set of courses, we (VMGuru.nl-crew) already attended the ‘What’s new in VMware vSphere 4‘ course given by Eric Sloof. And there’s also a new ‘VMware vSphere, Install…
Low cost shared storage for test/home lab
A few weeks ago I attended the ‘What’s new in VMware vSphere 4‘ course given by Eric Sloof. Eric pointed us to a very nice and cheap shared storage solution from Iomega which he also uses in his home lab, the Iomega Storcenter ix-series. I…
Cisco Nexus 1000V released
Last night I received an e-mail from Cisco thanking me for my work in the Nexus 1000V beta program and announcing the availability of the final product. For those of you that don’t know the Cisco Nexus 1000V, it is a pure software implementation of…
Enterprise Hypervisor comparison (updated 04-06-09)
April 25th we published our Enterprise Hypervisor comparison and we got very positive comments on it. A few people were kind enough to provide us feedback so we could improve the document, thanks for that. I collected all comments and feedback and created version 5.5…
Upgrade VMware View 3.0 to 3.1
This morning I told you that VMware had released VMware View 3.1 and that I would upgrade our 3.0.1 installations to 3.1 as soon as possible and let you know how the improvements work out for us. Well, it is time. After reading the release…
VMware View 3.1 released
As you all have seen on VMGuru.nl we’re very busy implementing VMware View solutions. These solutions were based on VMware View 3.0.1 but yesterday evening VMware released the new version of their VDI solution VMware View 3.1. So what’s new in VMware View 3.1? Performance…
Don’t let Microsoft “Quick” on you again
As you may have noticed, we at VMGuru.nl have been extremely busy the last few week. Tons of work accompanied with the right amount of stress, illness and personally the build of my new house. This certainly shows in the amount of article we posted…