vSphere4 GA minus 3 days
We are now 3 days from the day we, VMware enthusiasts, have all been waiting for. The general availability of vSphere 4! According to the information that VMware has published officially goes on sale on Thursday May 21st. As VMware Premier Partner we received numerous…
Spaces in LDAP
With one of our deployments of VMware View we had problems with the linked clones. Adding the computer accounts to Active Directory failed everytime. Even after recreating the pool it failed. Computer accounts weren’t created in Active Directory. After a lot of troubleshooting, logfile reading…
Website maintenance
Due to an IP address change at our hosting service this website may be temporarily unavailable during the coming two weeks. We will try to limit the disruption as much as possible. Because of the DNS replication time this may take a maximum of two…
New articles published for week ending 5/10/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
The name is Epping, Duncan Epping….
This morning I received a tweet from Duncan Epping, Duncan works at VMware Benelux and is the owner of Yellow-Bricks.com. In the community it was a public secret that Duncan was in the USA to defend his case to become one of the fist VCDX…
Short outage
The site has been down for about an hour or so. Due to a shortage on another server in the rack, the powerbar decided to close down the whole rack for damagecontrol. The cause has been found and the machine removed, so we’re back up…
Template customization problem solved
As it is VMware View season I ran into a new problem deploying new virtual desktops in the virtual infrastructure I presented to you in this article. The people who read it know that the infrastructure serves various clients/customers so I have to deploy various…
New articles published for week ending 5/3/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
VMware View log viewing
With the addition of VMware View your environment gains complexity. Before adding components like VMware View or Lab Manager you only have one point of logging in your virtual enviroment, vCenter Server. Now you have to look into the textfiles itself if you want to…
Centric promoted to VMware Premier Partner
We already reported this in March as we had some inside information but now it is official. Centric has been promoted to VMware Premier Partner and to celebrate we had a little get-together with VMware two weeks ago. This is great news as there are…
Spam abuse on the site
Hello Folks, Recently we opened up the site for comments without registration. We really love the feedback we get from you guys out there. It’s a motivator to keep up the work we’re doing. So keep commenting! :) However, there is one downside to this….
What’s new in VMware vSphere 4 training
Today we attended the new ‘What’s new in VMware vSphere‘ 4 training and who better to get us up-to-date than Eric Sloof from NTPro.nl. Eric already caught us on camera this morning while we were doing the labs so we thought we should return the…
New articles published for week ending 4/26/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Thoughts on high availability
With all the news and buzz around vSphere it’s easy to get carried away by all the new stuff appearing. But even with all these new features we still need to think about High Availability and how to design the infrastructure. Everytime we design a…
VMware View problems
After a long day configuring various pools for VMware View I got some strange warning in the log from VMware View: Missing VM was not in the original query: vm-234 I don’t like errors, especially in a newly configured server. in this case it also…