Utility Computing – from Dream to Reality
I have been absorbing, analysing and sharing ideas with lots of people during VMworld Europe 2014 in Barcelona. From executive round-tables, roadmap sessions, panel discussions to one-on-one brainstorms or sharing a dream how the IT landscape would look like in 2020+. Utility Computing is forming…
Veeam Availability Suite v8 released
Today Veeam released their long-awaited Availability Suite v8 (Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam One combined). With this release Veeam aims to enhance the availability for the modern data center and bridge the availability gap found in many companies. Leveraging the technologies of the modern data center,…
Creating Workspace Portal 2.1 HA Cluster
Peter Bjork wrote a great post on how to create a Workspace Portal 2.1 HA cluster using internal databases. You’re probably wondering: ‘internal database? That is for testing purposes only?” VMware Workspace Portal 2.1 documentation recommends the use of an external instance of vPostgres when setting…
The first vBeers The Hague; the VMworld afterparty!
Eric Sloof posted this yesterday on ntpro.nl: Join Eric Sloof (NTPRO.NL), Jeremy van Doorn (VMware) and Viktor van den Berg (viktorious.nl) for the first vBeers The Hague; The VMworld afterparty! Catch up with other peers and discuss VMworld announcements or just have a little drink and…
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5 released
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5 was released this week featuring Flash VM Boot, which provides the ability to run VMware VMs directly from compressed and deduplicated VM backups. Nakivo Backup & Replication NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a complete data protection feature set for virtualized environments,…
Rapid VMware deployment with Virtual SAN Ready Nodes
Lately you hear a lot about EVO:RAIL. But EVO:RAIL isn’t the only thing in the deployment kit. There’s also Virtual SAN Ready Nodes. Virtual SAN Ready Nodes are a preconfigured ready-to-go hardware solution. Virtual SAN Ready Nodes are prescriptive in that they provides the size and quantity of…
Customize VMware Workspace Portal some more
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED BY VMWARE IN ANY WAY. DON’T DO OR USE THIS IN YOUR PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT! If you are like me, and want everything exactly the way you want it, then the limited choice in customizing colors and images just isn’t enough….
PCoIP Zero Client by Philips
Recently a product came to my attention from a vendor I did not expect. Philips introduced an integrated PCoIP zero client they call the Philips Cloud Monitor Base, model SB4B1927VB . It comes in the form factor of a monitor stand, where the zero client…
VMworld Europe 2014 General Session Wednesday Replay
The VMworld Europe 2014 General Session Wednesday Replay is now available in case you missed it. In this session VMware customers share their real-world success with President Carl Eschenbach, transforming their businesses with software-defined architectures and solutions. VMware’s CTO Ben Fathi and other…
Additional capabilities to manage Transparent Page Sharing
Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) is the ability for virtual machines to share identical memory pages. This allows hosts to most efficiently use memory, particularly when those hosts have many almost identical virtual machines running on them. The net benefit is better memory usage, potentially leading…
VMworld Europe 2014 Day 3 Highlights
Today was the last day of VMworld. Time to look back at the VMworld highlights of day 3, wrap up and see you next year. Espero verte en Barcelona!
VMware EVO:Rail – Datacenter deployment EVOlution style and what you should know about it
At VMworld 2014 US VMware’s EVO:Rail was introduced. EVO:Rail is the next step in converged infrastructures, it’s the world’s first hyperconverged infrastructure appliance, fully run on VMware. A number of hardware vendors are on board with EVO:Rail. Dell, Fujitsu and Supermicro are on…
VMworld Europe 2014 Day 2 Highlights
My second day started with attending the general session. This session mostly focused on some use cases told by SAP and Vodafone. Also demos that give a somewhat more in-dept view of the products that where announced on day 1 where shown. I think…
Diablo Memory Channel Storage: The new Flash storage standard?
During VMworld we had the opportunity to sit down with Ricky Trigalo en Kevin Wagner from Diablo technologies to talk about their storage solution called “Memory Channel Storage” (MCS). Basically this means that you insert NAND flash memory into a memory bank instead of your standard…
HP announced as EVO:RAIL partner
Today I visited the HP booth for more information on EVO:RAIL, since they were announced as EVO:RAIL partner during the General Session on Monday. HP now is one of the partners that deliver a complete solution. Other EVO:RAIL partners are Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi…