Database mirroring as alternative to clustering and FT
There are a lot of products and product features available for creating a (more or less) high available environment. If you look at Microsoft SQL Server you have the option to create a Microsoft Cluster, you can use Marathon everRun, VMware Fault Tolerance if you have…
VMGuru.nl, 13th in Top 25 VMware blogs
We are very proud and honored to tell you that VMGuru.nl finished 13th in Eric Siebert’s blogger contest on vSphere-land.com which was won by Duncan Epping! Last week we all asked you to vote for us if you appreciated our blog and apparently a lot…
Build numbers database updated
We updated our build number database again with the most recent build numbers we could find on VMware products. The database has been updated with, amongst others, VMware View, vCloud Director, vSphere 4.1 and VMware Fusion. Go to https://vmguru.com/build-numbers/ for the database.
t minus 20 days
We are finally going to VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen! No thanks to our employer but many many thanks to Richard Garsthagen who provides us blogger invitations. So we are counting down the days as we are very exited to attend VMworld again this year. I’m…
VMware vSphere 4.1 and View 4.5 launch news
Last Thursday we attended the VMware vSphere 4.1, vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 launch event at Amerongen (NL). We already brought you all news regarding vSphere and vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 but we heard some interesting thing we would like to share with you….
Blog competition, vote VMGuru.nl #1
It is time again for a new top blogger voting survey. Eric Siebert started the second competition of this year and again your votes will decide the winners and help decide the Top 25 VMware bloggers. Last time we, at VMGuru.nl, were very honored to…
Download VMware View 4.5 now
After the announcement of VMware View 4.5 at VMworld 2010, VMware released the new version of View yesterday. If you are interested in the new features and improvements see our previous post. If you want download an evaluation of the VMware View 4 .5 visit…
Bad network performance on new ESX host (part 2)
Some weeks ago I posted an article about some bad network performance when moving VMs to a new ESX host. Last week I got an e-mail which announced some updates and among it was the one promised to us by the engineer that helped us with…
VMGuru Tuning
Hello Folks! In the past we had several major and minor issues regarding the website performance. As we have also moved to new hardware a few months ago, we had to reconfigured the complete backend construction. Last weekend I spend some time rounding up the…
The END of ESX, Long Live ESXi !
With the release of vSphere 4.1 it will be the last version of ESX to be released in an ESX and an ESXi version. After this version only the ESXi flavor will be released. We at VMGuru.nl predicted that this would happen a few years…
VMworld 2010 update
This week VMworld 2010 is held but unfortunately VMGuru.nl is not there to bring you the latest news from San Fransisco. But of course we scan the Internet, follow twitter and have close contact with VMware personnel on-site. First of all, if you can…
VMware View 4.5 announced
Today, at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, VMware announced the launch of VMware View 4.5. VMware View 4.5 is packed with loads of new features which increases VMware View use cases and definitively narrows the gap with Citrix XenDesktop. In fact, Chris Wolf from Gartner…
VMware Visio Stencil for vSphere 4 manuals
While designing and writing administrator guides, I often use pictures instead of words. In my opinion: a picture says more then 1000 words. When VMware vSphere 4 went live I started collecting pictures from Sphere and the Virtual Infrastructure client, I combined them in a…
No VMGuru.nl in China
Hello folks, Yesterday we noticed a huge increase in the amount of traffic. After some in-depth investigation, we discovered that some ‘friends’ in China found a loophole which quadrupled our traffic within a few hours. Fortunately no real harm was done. Our systems were not compromised. During…
Use Core Server when deploying Windows on a virtual infrastructure?
Since Microsoft introduced Windows 2008 back in 2007, there is the opportunity to install a Core Server. It was the first time Microsoft introduced a lean-and-mean server, where a lot of the Linux and Unix admins always complained that the GUI on a server eats…