Three Dimensions of Storage Sizing & Design – Part 1: Overview
Why do we build ICT infrastructures? What is the most important part in those infrastructures? It is Data! With the digital era we need to store bits of information, or so called data, so we can process, interpreter, organize or present that as information by…
Working with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance
While working with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) the last couple of years I came across several bits and pieces of information that I collected which, I think, are useful for working with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) and combined them in this…
The Software Defined Enterprise – Part 1: The Digital Workspace
The Software Defined Enterprise is becoming reality in a world that is changing around us in an ever increasing pace. Organizations which do not organize their business processes to absorb and adopt change will remain behind. Functionality is increasingly being delivered through software, where the…
Best Practices running VMware with NFS
Best Practices running VMware with NFS There are several ways to store your Virtual Machines that run on your VMware Cloud Backend storage. You can store them locally on internal storage or on direct attached storage (DAS). Another way is to tie your ESXi servers…
How to exchange VMs between VMware Workstation and Fusion
Occasionally I exchange VMs, this time with my brother, who uses VMware Workstation on Microsoft Windows 10. I on the other hand use VMware Fusion Pro on my Mac with El Capitan as operating system. First time I had to move an Android VM from…
Please wait, loading VMworld 2015 Europe…
Get ready for VMworld 2015 Europe – the world’s #1 cloud and virtualization technology conference! From 12 to 15 October VMworld Europe will be returning to Barcelona’s Fira Gran Via. VMworld 2015 Europe is almost upon us! For the eighth consecutive year, VMworld is visited…
VMworld 2015: HyTrust Announces CloudControl for VMware NSX
VMware NSX software-defined networking offers unprecedented flexibility to support rapid infrastructure deployment and scaling with micro-segmentation to segment the network. HyTrust has partnered with VMware to deliver enterprise-class administrator controls for NSX that allow an organization to provide very segmented controls for administrators. HyTrust announced…
VMworld 2015: Nexenta offers free File Services for current VMware VSAN customers
Current VMware Virtual SAN customers can now get File Services free of charge!, courtesy of VMware & Nexenta. When you are using VMware VSAN and you want to put your ISO images on VSAN you can’t at the moment. With NexentaConnect for VSAN you will…
VDI done Right! with NexentaConnect
In this blog post, VDI Done Right! with NexentaConnect, I will dive deeper into VDI as a solution and how you can use NexentaConnect with local storage to achieve a great user experience. The most important part of a VDI project, in my opinion, is…
Hybrid Cloud Data Encryption with VMware vCloud Air
HyTrust Expands Agreement for Hybrid Cloud Data Encryption with VMware vCloud Air. VMware is going to resell HyTrust Encryption and Key Management Solutions to support data security and compliance. This way it opens up the way for enterprises to migrate to a hybrid cloud model….
Top vBlog 2015 Results are in VMGuru on #25
The Top 25 of the Top vBlog 2015 results are in. VMGuru on #25. We made it once again to the top 25. Thanks to our supports! This year there were +2.200 votes compared to the 1.400 from last year. Also the total number of…
Microsoft SQL 2014 Licensing in a VMware environment
I still get a lot of requests to explain how Microsoft SQL 2014 Licensing in a VMware environment works. More and more business critical workloads find their way to the Software Defined Data Center as a virtual workload. For virtual workloads licensing was a bit…
Come join the fun and visit VMworld 2015!
Come join the fun and visit VMworld 2015. The #1 Cloud and Virtualization Technology worldwide event will be held at US, San Francisco from August 30 – September 3, 2015 and Europe, Barcelona from October 12-15, 2015. VMworld is four full days of innovation to…
VMware vRealize Rebranding
In the last quarter of 2014, VMware rebranded, their Cloud Management products with vRealize names. VMware vRealize Rebranding is complete now. Several customers asked me since then were some products have gone/are named. So after many requests I compared the products and compiled a table…
Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere a book review
As VMGuru we are virtualizing all kind of business critical applications since 2005. Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere is often part of those projects. I must express tho that none of us is an Oracle DBA, but we are often involved in virtualization projects were their…