End-User Computing track on VMworld 2014 Europe
VMworld 2014 Europe is rapidly approaching. If you are interested in End-User Computing than there is an EUC track with lots of interesting sessions on the schedule. Within the EUC track their are two different currents, technical or business. In the technical current you see…
VMware releases first ShellShock patch
A few hours ago, VMware released the first fix for the shellshock bug. The fix is for vCenter Log Insight 2.0. We expect patches for other products to be available soon. The list of products to patch is not the shortest one, there is a…
VMware and ShellShock bug – What it means for you
The internet is in a twist. A bug in BASH recently has been published. It’s called ShellShock, like the disorder soldiers suffered from in WW1. This bug has been there for a long time, but nobody knew. Apparently it’s the oldest bug known to date…
Trend Micro to help tackle Shellshock vulnerability
A brand new vulnerability has been discovered that will have widespread impacts. Trend Micro to help tackle Shellshock vulnerability. The vulnerability, known as Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169), is found in Bash, the dominant shell for Unix and Linux (default), and can also be found in…
Translate VMware Workspace Portal
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 customizing colors and images just isn’t enough. Even the language should…
VMware Fling – PowerActions for vSphere Web Client
VMware released a new fling called ‘PowerActions for vSphere Web Client’ which integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere management client. In short, PowerAction can now run PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts from the Web Client! How does it work?…
Top VMware Horizon support issues
VMware’s Support Insider, Rick Blythe, has put together a great list of the top VMware Horizon support issues by studying the support trends and identifying the top issues driving calls into the VMware support centers. So if you are a VMware Horizon admin or implementer supporting a single…
Graphic workload testing with Login VSI
Last week Floris van der Berg, an R&D engineer at Login VSI, blogged about testing graphic workloads with Login VSI. More and more companies want to use graphics software in their virtual environment. But, before you implement it throughout your complete organization, you want to…
vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance
vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance. Often when designing an infrastructure there is a choice to be made between the two options. Go for the easy and fast to deploy appliance or go for the scalable and flexible installation. Where with the previous version of ESX…
StarWind compared to VMware and Hyper-V
With both VMware and Microsoft developing software based storage solutions, we started to wonder what kind of edge a product like StarWind still would have on these solutions. When we asked StarWind, they quickly replied with a couple of feature comparison documents. These documents point out…
Webinar: Optimizing Business Value and Minimizing Risk
Sifting through the marketing hype from VMware and Microsoft regarding their “server-side software-defined storage models” can be almost as challenging as understanding the underlying technical issues that software-defined storage seeks to solve. What is needed is a clear headed analysis of the storage challenges created…
VMware Fling – XenApp2Horizon
Fresh from the VMware labs, this time it’s all about migrating published applications and desktops from Citrix XenApp to Horizon View. One XenApp farm is migrated to one or more Horizon View farm(s). It’s called XenApp2Horizon. XenApp2Horizon helps you: Validate the View agent status on RDS…
Login VSI introduced Login VUM Beta
At VMworld 2014 in San Francisco Login VSI announced a new product, Login VUM. Login VUM is based on Login VSI, but instead of simulating with multiple users to test the capacity of a system, it simulates just one user on a production system. A…
Webinar: Storage Best Practices for Hyper-V & SQL Server
What is the trick to supporting growth for your Microsoft environment without breaking your budget, or causing performance problems? Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) is the Microsoft solution for enabling a flexible, scalable resilient data infrastructure supporting Windows, Hyper-V and SQL Server environments. New Microsoft Storage…
VMware Workspace Portal 2.1 available now
Last week at VMworld, VMware introduced VMware Workspace Suite, a unified platform that delivers enterprise mobility management from AirWatch, application and desktop virtualization from Horizon, and file sync and share with Secure Content Locker. Part of the VMware Workspace Suite is the VMware Workspace Portal….