CommVault support for vSphere 5
With the release of service pack 3 for Simpana 9, CommVault adds full support for VMware vSphere 5. Many organizations struggle with rapid data growth, expanding virtual server deployments and increasing data center consolidations because legacy backup and recovery solutions just can’t cope with the…
Waiting is over – download vSphere 5 now!
After the release on July 12th, you can now download VMware vSphere 5 and enjoy the 150 new features. You can find the downloads here. For more information visit: VMware ESXi and VMware ESX Info Center VMware vSphere 5 release notes. If you want to…
How VMware is listening to their clientele: new vRAM limits
Sometimes a company rethinks its strategy and thinks it has found a new edge. This was, or better, is the case with the new licensing model for vSphere 5, that was announced 12th of July. Actually, vSphere 5 has a lot of new and exiting…
VMware View 5.x with PCoIP Optimization Controls
VMware in collaboration with Teradici is working hard to improve the rich user experience even more by adding new features and improving existing ones. The vDesktops running on VMware View can be reached through lots of different devices including Apple iPads or Android-based tablets. The…
Update Build numbers database
With everyone being busy it has been some time since the last update of the build numbers database, but now I found the time and now it updated. Apart from some updates on products that where there already, I also added a few other products to the list. If you…
vRAM licensing with VMware View
Since the announcement of VMware vSphere 5, the attention for the great new features has been swapped by the discussion on the new VMware vSphere 5 licensing model. Because of the processor association it looks complicated and expensive but if you do the math, most…
New VMware licensing explained
With the introduction of VMware vSphere 5, VMware introduces a new licensing model. VMware will retain a per processor model but they removed some restrictions which were in the vSphere 4 licensing model. This is mainly regarding the number of cores per processor and the…
VMware vExpert 2011
VMGuru.nl is very proud to announce that for the third year in a row, we can proudly wear the VMware vExpert logo on our site. Alex, Anne Jan and myself have been given the vExpert award 2011 for our contributions to the VMware virtualization community. This…
To partner or not to partner, that’s the question
In my new job I meet many, many vendors and almost all of them have a partner program in which we can achieve bronze, silver, gold, enterprise, premier, business or any other partner status. In reality the meaning of the term ‘Partner’ is interpreted in…
Next step forward in Cloud infrastructure
On July 12th VMware is going to unveil the next major step forward in Cloud infrastructure. VMware executives Paul Maritz (CEO) and Steve Herrod (CTO) will present a 45 minute live webcast. The webcast will be followed by additional online sessions where you can learn…
How to calculate electrical costs for cooling and power consumption
For putting together a business case costs and revenues are an important part of it. If you want to calculate the direct resource costs associate with hosting a server in your data center, you want to know the direct power consumption by the server in…
ESXi 4.1 installation fails – Unable to find the system image
Earlier this week I already told you that I’ve build a new ESXi whitebox but I had some problems installing it. OK, first of all, what was the situation? I wanted to install VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1 to a USB stick which is VMware certified.I…
VKernel free tools for your utility belt
Most companies I visit have spend a lot of money on hardware and software for their primary process. Operating System software isn’t a problem most of the time, just as the application software. Management and monitoring software on the other hand is a totally different…
StarWind iSCSI SAN Passed VMware’s Certification Program
Yesterday shortly after we posted the review about the StarWind iSCSI SAN software there was a press release by Starwind. The press release announced that they had passed the VMware Certification Program for VMware ESX 4.1 server. The press release can be found here. In short this…
Starwind review
Recently Starwind contacted us and asked if we would be interested in doing a review on their iSCSI SAN software solution. The enthusiasts that we are, we quickly replied that we would take the challenge. After some e-mails back and forth and setting up a small…