VMware Virtual SAN Sizing Tool
Just before VMworld 2014 VMware released the Virtual SAN Sizing Tool. It’s now live and available to the general public. The Virtual SAN Sizing Tool provides assistance for design considerations and automates storage sizing calculations for Virtual SAN infrastructures. All you will need to do is provide a few…
VMware acquires CloudVolumes
Yesterday VMware announced the acquisition of CloudVolumes, a product which enable real-time desktop application delivery. Delivering desktop applications to users, especially in Windows environments, can be very challenging. Adding or removing applications based on the user context, incompatibilities or conflicts with existing apps, all problems…
VMworld 2014 Europe Schedule Builder Live!
The VMworld 2014 Europe Schedule builder is Live! It offers access to over 115 technical and content-rich sessions and labs. Covering the latest in virtualization innovations in the data center for storage, networking, security, management, workforce mobility and hybrid cloud services. You’ll also have the…
Untangle the mess! Network issues with VMware VMs
In the last couple of weeks my colleagues and I encountered several issues with virtual machines in relation to network configurations. These issues where relatively easy to fix but I wanted to write them down for myself and share them with you all. Problems first arose when…
The cloud is a mystery? Visit VMworld 2014 or tune in on VMGuru! (video)
The cloud is a mystery to you? We will solve that, just tune in on VMGuru during VMworld 2014 and we will bring you the latest news. VMGuru will attend VMworld US from August 24-28 and VMworld Europe from October 13-16. If there is news…
New release – Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V
If you’re a Hyper-V administrator, you need all the information you can get about host and guest VM resource utilization. However, when you don’t have any Hyper-V monitoring framework in place, you still can’t afford to work blind. Veeam released a new tool for the Hyper-V admins…
VMware Fling – VMware I/O Analyzer
VMware released a new version of their VMware I/O Analyzer Fling. VMware I/O Analyzer is an integrated framework designed to measure storage performance in a virtual environment and to help diagnose storage performance concerns. I/O Analyzer, supplied as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance, automates storage performance…
VMware Fling – ViewDbChk tool
VMware released a new VMware Fling, the ViewDbChk tool. The ViewDbChk tool allows administrators to scan for, and fix provisioning errors that can not be addressed using View Administrator. Provisioning errors occur when there are inconsistencies between the LDAP, vCenter and View Composer databases. These…
Login VSI 4.1 is out with new workloads and more
Today Login VSI, Inc. announced a new version of Login VSI: Login VSI, Inc. announces Login VSI 4.1, a substantial update to its flagship product. Login VSI is the industry-standard performance validation solution for centralized virtualized desktop and server-based environments. The new release, which has…
VMware Fling – VMware OS Optimization Tool
The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps optimize Windows 7/8/2008/2012 systems for use with VMware Horizon View. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. Since most Windows system services…
Sign up for the vSphere Beta now, It’s public!
Do you want to try the newest and latest in VMware technology? You want to play with cutting edge technology? Sign up for the vSphere 6 Public BETA! Join VMware’s newest vSphere Beta Program to help define the direction of the world’s most complete, trusted,…
Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 patch 4 released
Yesterday Veeam released patch 4 for their Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 product. Normally a patch release is not that appealing to write about, but besides a full list of bug fixes this patch of Veeam Backup & Replication also introduces some new features to…
VMworld 2014 Europe Registration Now Open
For over a decade VMworld has been the source for the knowledge and connections you need to leverage virtualization and cloud computing technologies in your business. You can try out several new or improved solutions through the Hands-On-Labs (HOL) get deeper insights through great breakout…
VMware Horizon 6 available for download NOW
While browsing the VMware site today, we discovered that VMware released the Horizon 6 suite. Horizon 6, as you might already know, not only contains VMware’s VDI solution View. Mirage and Workspace are also part of the product range. VMware wants to offer a complete…
Resolved: VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 NFS disconnects
A new issue has been discovered with vSphere 5.5 Update 1 that is related to loss of connection of NFS based datastores. The result is an All Paths Down (APD) of the NFS datastores meaning that vSphere loses connection to the virtual machine files and/or the…