Manage multiple Cisco UCS domains with one tool
Today I visited the Cisco booth here at VMworld 2012 in Barcelona and got a inside view of the UCS Central. UCS Central is a tool Cisco is working on to manage multiple Cisco UCS systems/domains. At the moment it is still in beta but…
A VMworld party hangover
Wednesday evening is traditionally the evening for the VMworld party. At VMworld we work very hard but we party harder but yesterday it got a bit too wild. This morning I woke up with a large VMGuru-logo-tattoo on my arm ;-) There’s just no…
Impressions of VMworld 2012 Europe in Barcelona Day 3
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VMworld Europe 2012 – General Session Wednesday 2012
Transcript of this mornings General Session with Steve Herrod. There are all kinds of discussions about access, applications and infrastructrures and how that looks. In the past the pc was the device of access. IT could dictate the rules. Now the user…
Impressions of VMworld 2012 Europa at Barcelona Day 2
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Licensing Oracle in a virtualized environments
Licensing Oracle servers in a virtualized environment has always been a difficult issue. Edwin wrote an extensive article on that in the past. At VMworld 2012 in San Francisco an Oracle employee made some statements regarding Oracle licensing on VMworldTV but they were…
Demo of the new VMware vSphere Multi-Hypervisor Management
As we heard in the keynote this morning you can now manage multiple hypervisors with VMware vCenter. Eric Sloof visited the VMware booth and got a demo.
VMware releases Mobile Knowledge Portal
Is it hard for you to locate the latest VMware documentation? Wouldn’t it be great to have the VMware documentation with you on your mobile device? Now you can! VMware just published a cool application which just does this all, the VMware Mobile Knowledge…
Trend Micro Deep Security 9 on its way
During VMworld 2012 in San Fransisco Trend Micro announced the next version of their hypervisor based security product. They announced a lot of new and cool features and improvements which are probably gonna make into the final product. I just got a demo…
vFoglight Storage 2.0 released
Storage and server teams have historically had difficulty working together and often end up “finger-pointing” to each other. Today vKernel/Quest released the new vFoglight Storage 2.0 which can perform end-to-end performance monitoring across the entire data path from application to disk. Many issues…
VMworld Europe 2012 – General Session
(This article reflects the general session of Tuesday. It isn’t a literal transcript) Before the first keynote starts the General session was opened with a spectacular show with dancers and music, etc. First on stage is VMware’s Chief Marketing Officer Rick Jackson. It’s 11…
How to deliver Services powered by VMware vCloud (PAR1519)
The first day of VMworld Europe was, as always, reserved for partners. During this day a lot of partner specific sessions are presented. In the session “How to deliver Services Powered by VMware vCloud (PAR1519)” by Bart Schneider (VSSP manager VMware EMEA). Some…
Built to last: Why VMware vCloud (PAR2172)
Today was the first day of VMworld 2012 in Barcelona, Partner Day. After a few lab sessions I attended breakout session PAR2172 – Built to last: Why VMware vCloud should be the corner stone of your (customer’s) Private Cloud by David James. The…
VMware Cloud Computing Roadshow 2012
Nowadays Cloud Computing is the new buzz word. Numerous companies are now offering various new Cloud Computing products. Literature is buzzing and the Internet and blogosphere is exploding from Cloud-fever. For customers this is a very confusing time because what’s cloud, what’s not and how…
VMworld 2012 San Francisco behind the Scenes
VMworld 2012 San Francisco is already 5 weeks behind us and VMworld Barcelona is about to start in a couple of days. The US edition was packed with over 20.000 people visiting VMworld. To make sure everyone could follow everything 100% a lot…