Palo Alto plane crash: Power outage, VMware Support still available
According to news reports a small plane has crashed in Palo Alto this morning, causing a power outage. At 7:50 AM, shortly after take-off a small plane crashed into the power lines and exploded on impact, killing all three people onboard which were all employees…
Finally received VCP 4 certificate & benefits
Regularly I receive question from worried colleagues who have passed their VCP410 exam but haven’t received their certificate and welcome kit yet. The only answer I had until now was the one I picked up on the VMware communities website stating that VMware had delayed…
Valentine’s Day
It was Valentine’s Day, February 14th, the day the boys and girls at Partner Exchange exchange business cards with their business partners. They draw hearts and flowers and write funny poems. VMware awoke early and looked over at the stack of cards ready and waiting to be…
VMworld 2010 News – Talk to the experts
Today VMware organized the vForum 2010 in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, and during this day Dutch VMUG-er Viktor van den Berg interviewed Richard Garsthagen. Richard is one of the organizers of VMworld and during this interview he revealed some news about VMworld 2010. First of all…
Want to know more about the Cisco Nexus 1000V?
The Cisco Nexus 1000V is the first switch that can be placed in your vSphere virtual infrastructure, giving back network control back to the people that know the most about networking: The network admins. The Nexus 1000V is built on the distributed vSwitch technology in…
The workplace in 2020
Have you ever wondered what the world of work would look like in 2020? I have. With the huge technological progress, it’s hard to imagine what we will be doing and how the world around will look. If you look at the way we do…
Apple iPad announced, can it change daily operations?
Apple finally annoumced their tablet officially,dubbed the iPad. The last months more and more rumors appeared on the internet. You probably wonder why this is interesting for the virtualization community. Although a lot of people over at Gizmodo complain that it’s just an iPhone on…
vSphere 4: 9 months later
May 21th VMware released their new flagship product VMware vSphere 4 which should bring us tons of new features and performance improvements. But how is the vSphere experience almost 9 months later? Starting with the installation and setup experience, my personal experience with vSphere is…
Please tell me: ‘What is MED-V?’
This week I got the question if I could draw up a short lists of pro’s and cons for MED-V. Since I’m doing virtualization in the widest possible way, this fits well in my job description. But heck, what a question! Before I could even…
And the winner is ……
January 3rd, Eric Siebert, started the Top 25 VMware/Virtualization bloggers contest. During two weeks everybody in the community could vote for their favorite Top 10 and the challenge was to get VMGuru.nl into the Top 25 and to knock Duncan Epping from the top spot…
VMware to acquire Zimbra
It was a rumor for some time but 45 minutes ago Steve Herrod, CTO of VMware, acknowledged that VMware has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra from Yahoo. First of all, for those of you that don’t know, Zimbra delivers open-source…
Oracle VM, things they do not tell
Last week a colleague, who sells applications running on an Oracle Database, had some questions regarding Oracle and running it in a Virtual Machine (VM) on top of a VMware infrastructure with a customer. 1) How to license Oracle in a virtual environment? I pointed…
Vote VMGuru.nl!
Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land is running a new blog contest which let you decide who the most favorite blogger is. Can anyone knock Duncan Epping from the top spot? With the last elections VMGuru.nl entered the voting list so make us proud and kick…
Deciphering the Cisco 3750 product code
When designing a virtual infrastructure an important bit in the design is the storage infrastructure also called the Storage Area Network (SAN). In a SAN based on iSCSI we often use Cisco 3750 switches, but when you are going to select the right Cisco 3750…
VMGuru.nl: how did we do in 2009?
hey folks! First of all, a happy newyear to you all! With 2009 behind us, we look forward to a new and intense 2010. Personally, I think 2010 will be a very interesting year. With the world economy leaving the ruins of the crisis and…