vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance
vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance. Often when designing an infrastructure there is a choice to be made between the two options. Go for the easy and fast to deploy appliance or go for the scalable and flexible installation. Where with the previous version of ESX…
Introducing vCloud Automation Center 6.1
VMware is Introducing vCloud Automation Center 6.1 today at VMworld US 2014. With vCloud Automation Center 6.1 VMware continues to invest in delivering an extensible, multi-vendor cloud automation framework that allows IT to deliver personalized business relevant infrastructure, applications and other IT services with the…
Patrolling the Cloud border with HyTrust Boundary Controls
With more and more workloads (applications and data) virtualized and cloudinized the need for patrolling the border with Hytrust Boundary Controls is desperately needed. Virtualization and the cloud make data security more complicated. Virtual machines are by nature dynamic and highly portable. The benefits of virtual…
VMworld 2014 Europe Schedule Builder Live!
The VMworld 2014 Europe Schedule builder is Live! It offers access to over 115 technical and content-rich sessions and labs. Covering the latest in virtualization innovations in the data center for storage, networking, security, management, workforce mobility and hybrid cloud services. You’ll also have the…
VMworld 2014 Europe Registration Now Open
For over a decade VMworld has been the source for the knowledge and connections you need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies in your business. You can try out several new or improved solutions through the Hands-On-Labs (HOL) get deeper insights through great breakout…
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect port licensing explained
When you are designing a Cisco UCS Unified Computing environment you will use several components which will work together. One key object in the whole chain is the Fabric Interconnect which connects the chassis, used storage and uplinks to Datacenter Switches like the Nexus 5000…
7 Things You Should Know about licensing Windows 2012 R2 on VMware
Microsoft has adjusted her licensing policy once again regarding the availability of Windows Server 2012 R2 in combination with virtualization and cloud environments. I get a lot of questions regarding how to handle licensing Windows on VMware. Licensing of Windows server products with virtualization technologies…
Updated: Supported Business Applications on the VMware Platform
More and more applications are supported on the VMware Platform, with the release of VMware vSphere 5.5 the boundaries of virtual machines have been expanded even more. Often we get questions about which applications are supported on the VMware virtual platform. There is a website…
VMworld 2014 – Save The Date!
The VMware Partner Exchange is due in one week, but we are already looking forward towards VMworld 2014! This year the conference will also be held in San Francisco in August and six week later the Europe edition in Barcelona. Aug. 24-28 VMworld 2014 U.S….
Review: Synology Diskstation DS1513+ with VMware – Part 3
In part 1 we finished the hardware installation of the Synology and setup of the DSM software. In part 2 we finished setting up the ESXi environment with iSCSI and the networking part which includes multipathing. In this final part 3 we will setup the…
IBM Cognos licensing in a VMware environment
IBM makes it possible with their licensing to run IBM Cognos on a virtualisation hypervisor like VMware ESXi and make full use of vMotion, HA and DRS. Many IBM products can be licensed as User-Based or Capacity-based. If the product has a server component, it…
Free vSphere Hypervisor limitations removed!
Last week I ran into another discussion about the hypervisor under a XenApp deployment it had to be free or very cheap. So the customer was thinking about loading Hyper-V below it. Ok can be a viable option but the admins hoped it would be…
HyTrust acquires HighCloud Security
Where Cloud visibility and control meets security. HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security! Last year I had a very nice conversation with Eric Chiu about everything in the datacenter moving into software and the risky things around that move, today HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, …
VMworld Europe 2013- VMworld Party Impressions
Last night was the night of the annual VMworld Party! The VMworld Europe 2013 Party was at the Fira in Hall 6. In the slideshow below you will see an impression of last night. We had several good performances on stage, including Taio…
VMworld Europe 2013 – Technical Keynote
Today’s General Session (Technical Keynote) is all about the technology behind the solutions provided by VMware and the partner eco system. Featuring Carl Eschenbach, VMware’s President and COO, along with VMware’s engineering leaders they are showcasing state-of-the-art technology that is transforming IT by…