For the Dutchies: 19 March, Dutch VMUG Event – Mark your calendar!
It has been a long standing tradition: The dutch VMUG event. Last year in March the event was held in Den Bosch for the first time in a new format. And as we dutchies are fanatical lovers of virtualization in almost any form, this year…
VMware Fling – Horizon Toolbox
Recently, VMware updated the Horizon Toolbox, a fling for Horizon. The Horizon Toolbox was formally known as the “View auditing portal” and acts as an extension to the Horizon View Administrator (Horizon 6.0 or above is required). This new web portal offers several functions that…
vRealize Orchestrator Puppet plugin is available now
vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Puppet plugin enables vRealize Automation (vRA) and Puppet to work together to achieve infrastructure configuration, application deployment, and lifecycle management. vRO Puppet plugin is a collection of vRO workflows which work with embedded or external vRealize orchestrator, and it supports Puppet enterprise…
End of Support for old OS-es in VMware Horizon
Microsoft retired XP April 8, 2014. Now, 8 months later, it’s time for VMware Horizon to accept that loss and plan a memorial. With Microsoft dropping support, it is time for VMware to align with Microsoft’s decision. Therefor VMware announced End of Support for some old OS-es in…
Register for VMware’s next BIG product launch
Join VMware’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger, on February 3, 2015 (10:00–11:00 CET), to usher in a new era in IT that will further enable your cloud journey. It’s the ONE industry-defining product launch event you won’t want to miss. REGISTER HERE! All launch event registrants will…
Happy New Year and a vFantastic 2015
Happy New Year and a vFantastic 2015 from the VMGuru crew. Lots of things have happened in 2014. The VMGuru crew split up so we could attended both VMworld conferences in San Francisco and Barcelona! We got the opportunity to acquire VMGuru.com from Scott, so…
Login PI Release Candidate Available
The Login PI (formerly Login VUM) Release Candidate is now available for download and evaluation. In August this year Login VIS announced Login VUM beta at VMworld US. Yesterday they announced the product will officially be called Login PI because it delivers performance insights. You can think of it…
Webinar: How to build Microsoft Scale-Out File Server
Microsoft Scale-Out File Server is a new efficient storage solution for Hyper-V and SQL. SoFS uses SMB 3.0 to eliminate all the complexity of traditional shared storage and leverages the clustering capabilities to maintain true storage high availability. While most of the vendors show how…
VMware Horizon FLEX Solution Brief
Last week VMware announced the availability of VMware Horizon FLEX, a policy-based, containerized desktop solution that allows IT administrators to create, secure, and manage local desktops to meet the needs of workers with their own computers, road warriors, and Mac users in the enterprise. Now VMware published…
NetApp joins EVO with NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL
NetApp announced a new integrated solution designed to speed the deployment of virtual servers and virtual desktops in departmental IT settings and branch offices. Designed with the IT generalist in mind, NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL Solution is the first integrated system to combine cloud-ready enterprise NetApp…
VMware Horizon FLEX is available now
At VMworld Europe 2014 in Barcelona VMware introduced VMware Horizon FLEX. Today, VMware announced the general availability of VMware Horizon FLEX. VMware Horizon FLEX is a comprehensive enterprise solution that enables organizations to provision and manage local, corporate Windows-based virtual desktops to groups of employees that…
Webinar: Building a Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster
Join the Experts from 5 nine Software and StarWind Software in a session on the creation of cost effective and highly available Hyper-V cluster. Join them to continue receiving the essential insight and valuable information on: Building The Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster on Free Microsoft Hyper-V…
Moving on to a new challenge
The cat is out of the bag …… After 4 years at Imtech ICT, I have accepted a new challenge and on January 1st I will be joining VMware Benelux in the role of Cloud Management Specialist. I want to thank Imtech ICT for giving…
Webinar: Protecting Virtual Machines Using Data Replication
With a need for 24/7 operations, protecting virtual machines in ways that minimize downtime is an essential requirement for all IT departments. Data replication is a key tool that enables virtualization administrators to deliver continuous operations in virtual server environments by protecting virtual machines. There are…
How to easily License Microsoft Windows with VMware Horizon View
How to easily License Microsoft Windows with VMware Horizon View deployment is a big challenge for any organisation. We just want to pay Microsoft what we contractual owe them, nothing more, nothing less. With a new licensing option starting December 1, 2014 you can now…