Microsoft SQL 2012 Licensing in a VMware environment – Part One
More and more Microsoft SQL Servers are being deployed virtually in a VMware environment, but how can you license them correctly? Microsoft changed their licensing again on April 1st, 2012. With the general availability of SQL Server 2012, the changes around SQL licensing are live….
Attend VMworld for free? Sign-up for VMware NOW.
Could not convince your boss to attend VMworld? But you do want to hear the latest product announcements and product news? You can! Just Register for VMware NOW, a digital experience where you can watch the Keynotes and then dive into the new demos and…
vKernel releases Environment Explorer
Today vKernel released a new free utility for VMware admins within vOPS Server Explorer, called vKernel Environment Explorer. This new free utility provides a rapid assessment of the state of the virtual environment, helping quickly determine critical environment health statistics. Environment Explorer can locate: Identify…
Win a VMware vSphere Lab
As VMware enthusiasts we’re always busy testing new software, running beta’s, practicing migration scenarios, etcetera. To do this you need a server, some storage and a network. Some of us use old server hardware, some build their own whitebox ESXi server. This can all become…
VMguru.nl VMworld US & Europe 2012 – Trailer
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VMware Believe! Dream. Invent. Revolutionize.
It looks like VMware is preparing a major launch in the next coming days/weeks? Start Believing it yet? If we look down the path and see what vision VMware spread from the early years this century (2002/2003) up to the point we are today they…
VMware acquires Nicira, the next step in cloud solutions.
Yesterday VMware announced their acquisition of Nicira, a 5 year-old company that has pioneered software-defined networking (SDN). VMware will pay $1.26B to buy Nicira, a company that has built software that has done for networking what VMware has done to virtualize computing. Nicira was created…
Paul Maritz to leave VMware
There have been rumors for a few days but now it’s final, Paul Maritz is out as the CEO of VMware. Former Microsoft man Paul Maritz spent the last four years at VMware and and will be replaced by EMC COO Pat Gelsinger. It not…
StarWind Offers Free NFR Licenses for Lab Testing, Demonstration, and Training Purposes
Starwind is an innovative company and one of the first to offer an iSCSI initiator on the Microsoft Windows platform without a lot of hassle. The company offers Not For Resale (NFR) licenses to some specific groups of IT professionals. If you hold or are…
RES HyperDrive released
In January of this year RES announced that they where working on a secure way to deliver ‘follow me data‘ and file-sharing with a product they call RES HyperDrive. As of Yesterday (June 5th 2012) RES HyperDrive is available. As was made clear in the announcement…
Available now: VMware vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide
Last Friday, VMware released their vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide v1.0. It’s a great and extensive guide to completely secure your VMware vSphere 5 Infrastructure from ESXi host to vCenter server and from the vNetwork to virtual machine. The coincidence is that yesterday I had…
Great VMUG Belgium event
Last Friday Alex and I were invited to speak at the Belgium VMUG. Erik Schils, the Belgian VMUG leader, had setup a VMUG conference at Cisco in Diegem. After a 3 hour drive to Belgium, the conference turned out to be pretty busy, Erik managed…
VMGuru.nl at VMUG.Be – The Blogger Edition: Register now!
The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is…
The pRoad to vExpert
I often get several questions regarding how I started in IT, how I became an Enterprise Architect, how did I get where I am nowadays, what did you do in the past years and what my advice would be if someone wanted to get a…
VMware announces View 5.1
VMware announced today that VMware View 5.1 will be available Q2 2012. Several new features and benefits will be included, like a good security enhancement to add two-factor authentication through Radius integration. Also the whole rewritten USB implementation rocks. VMware View 5.1 Features and…