SRM 4.0 released
Back in April we we’re the first to report the limited management and automation support in vSphere, but now VMware has released version 4.0 of vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Besides that vCenter Site Recovery Manager can now be used with VMware’s vSphere 4 it has…
Citrix HDX 3D with host-side GPU-based encoding
Yesterday Citrix announced HDX 3D which is an enhancement to the ICA protocol which, according to Citrix, delivers 3D applications by only using one-tenth of the bandwidth. This is fierce competition for VMware’s PCoIP which they developed with Teradici and which VMware will demo at…
Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d released
Last week Iomega announced a new NAS appliance called the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. It is based on EMC storage technologies and contains four SATA-300 drivebays. With a storage capacity of 2, 4 and 8 TB it is the ideal NAS appliance for small businesses, distributed…
New memory management HP DL360/380 G6
Scouting the Internet on information about the new G6 evolution of HP servers I ran into a valuable article from Martijn Lohmeijer’s blog. In a lessons learned article he warns about the new memory management in the new HP ProLiant DL360/380 G6. We all know…
Vacation update (week 27-29)
The post frequency on VMGuru.nl has been a bit low because I have been on ‘holiday’ for the last three weeks. During these three weeks I’ve been very busy moving to my new house. Now I’m back and the first thing to do is to…
Cisco Nexus 1000V released
Last night I received an e-mail from Cisco thanking me for my work in the Nexus 1000V beta program and announcing the availability of the final product. For those of you that don’t know the Cisco Nexus 1000V, it is a pure software implementation of…
Limited management & automation support for vSphere
Update April 22th 2009: Today the rumor mentioned below was confirmed during the vSphere 4 launch. Rumor in the VMware community has it that the next version of VMware ESX, vSphere, has very limited support for the VMware management and automation suite. vSphere will of…
Virtualization EcoShell release date
We already reported on this and even made a video of Scott Herold’s demo at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative, VESI for short.The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold….
HP introduces new ProLiant G6 server line
Today HP announced the release of the new ProLiant G6 server line. After visiting an NDA session with HP on VMworld Europe 2009 a lot of new G6 ProLiant servers were shown. Nice new hardware build up for even better supporting virtualization in common. All…
Dell EqualLogic introduces PS6000 Series
Today Dell EqualLogic introduced their new PS6000 series iSCSI SANs. The new models in this serie are the PS6000E, PS6000X, PS6000XV, PS6000S and the PS6500E. One of the most interesting models is the PS6000S. This PS6000S is an enterprise-class iSCSI SAN with SSD technology and…
VMworld Europe 2009 – VMware announces vCenter Management Suite
Today at VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes VMware introduced their strategy for the coming years. VMware combines Chargeback, CapacityIQ, Orchestrator, ConfigControl and self service in the vCenter Management Suite. These are the building blocks that create the foundation for the next level in the virtualization…
VMWorld Euope 2009 – VMware introduces vCenter Server Heartbeat
February 10th I participated in a VMware WebEx on their new vCenter addon, vCenter Server Heartbeat and today the news will be released in Cannes at VMWorld Europe 2009. vCenter Server Heartbeat is an important addon which creates high availability for vCenter Server. vCenter Server…
vCenter Server Heartbeat announced
Yesterday VMware announced a new vCenter Server add-on, VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat. As customers expand their use of VMware, maintaining a highly available management infrastructure is quickly becoming a key requirement. So VMware created a high availability solution for vCenter Server. Today I participated in…
Patch for SCSI issue with VMware ESX
After ESX 3.5 update 3 there was the risk for I/O failure to your SAN. It presents itself like: VMware ESX or ESXi host might get disconnected from VirtualCenter All paths to the LUNs are in standby state esxcfg-rescan might take a long time to complete…
VMware VI Toolkit Update to 1.5
VMware recently introduced the new and improved VI Toolkit, version 1.5 VI Toolkit (for Windows) is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 150 cmdlets for managing and automating your VMware Infrastructure. You can download now this new version…