Dutch VMUG: vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting
Eric Sloof, instructor and blogger for NTPro.nl, gave a great presentation on advanced troubleshooting on vSphere. Eric shows that you can use esxtop for troubleshooting on almost every level. He said a lot about troubleshooting. Below you’ll find the things I could write down during his…
Dutch VMUG: vCloud Director presentation and demo
Willem van Engeland (VMware) and Duncan Epping (VMware, Yellow Bricks) did a presentation on vCloud Director. Paul Maritz said earlier: Cloud-based infrastructure will become the new hardware”, shifting from running your applications on HP, IBM or Dell hardware to Terremark. With vCloud Director you can create…
Dutch VMUG: Keynote
Today the 6th edition of the Dutch VMUG has started. Viktor van den Berg, Dutch VMUG leader, opened the VMUG around the 9.30 with a couple of facts and figures around the Dutch VMUG: There are more than 50.000 VMUG members in the world The…
Live from the VMUG.
Today is V-day, the day of the annual dutch VMUG and the complete VMGuru.nl will be there to report live from Nieuwegein (NL). So check out VMGuru.nl regularly today to see and hear what happens at the VMUG event. You can also follow us on…
Virtualize your remote offices using VMware Essentials RoBo
Some of you might already have been there. I know I have: You have a large organization with more than 10 remote or branch offices. You have virtualized your entire back-end but those nasty site servers still remain a physical nuisance. Some regional offices have…
Only two weeks until an impressive dutch VMUG
It’s only two weeks until the annual dutch VMUG with a very impressive speaker line-up. Many international speakers are going to deliver great sessions, workshops and Q/A-sessions at the Nieuwegein Business Center (NBC) on December 10th. If you’re interest and work involves virtualization and you…
Support Alert: Issue with IBM hardware running ESX/ESXi 4.1 (update)
A few minutes ago On November 12th VMware issued a Support Alert regarding an issue that affects users with IBM hardware, running ESX/ESXi 4.1. The symptoms are mentioned below. When using IBM x3650 M3 or BladeCenter HS22V servers, you may experience these symptoms: HBAs stop…
And the winners are …
A week ago, Arjan, initiated a VMworld Great Prize Draw giving away some of the items he collected at VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen. Because we had some extra items we introduced an additional fourth prize. I got the honors of naming the winners, so I…
I’m VMGuru.nl and I’ve just been overhauled!
Because we experienced more and more problems with the placement of our content we decided to give the website an overhauling. We changed the theme we started with two years ago and replaced it with a cleaner and fresher look with two sidebars. I hope…
VMworld Great Prize Draw!
When I saw the statistics that Erik published yesterday I was very pleased to see that my contributions to the VMGuru.nl site grew the most of all. When I joined the contributors more than a year ago from now, I never thought blogging for the…
VMGuru’s browser and OS statistics
As you might or might not know, I’m the hosting dude at VMGuru.nl. Our site runs on a Linux VM with Apache and that gives us the performance and stability we need. The combination of Apache on Linux gives us some nice options to run…
VMGuru.nl 2 year anniversary
Due to VMworld 2010, my job interviews and the problems with our Zimbra mail server we haven’t had the time to ‘celebrate’ our 2 year anniversary. So a bit late. Two years ago, in October 2008, we started our website/blog called VMGuru.nl and we had…
Zimbra is down
This evening I noticed that our Zimbra server wasn’t responding properly. In the end it wasn’t responding at all so I rebooted the VM. Unfortunately that worsened the situation, it now is down and out totally. No luck starting services, error messages making no sense,…
VMworld Europe 2010 Summary
We posted a lot of items when we were at VMworld in Copenhagen, so I thought it would be good to give you a summary so you wouldn’t miss a thing. General VMworld 2010 impression video VMworld 2010 Roundup Ford Donalds, about…
VMWorld 2010 Roundup
VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen is over. It was a huge success as far as us here at VMGuru.nl concerns. We had a fantastic time. Although it was very demanding at times, the team pulled through together. During VMworld, we generated more than…