Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect port licensing explained
When you are designing a Cisco UCS Unified Computing environment you will use several components which will work together. One key object in the whole chain is the Fabric Interconnect which connects the chassis, used storage and uplinks to Datacenter Switches like the Nexus 5000…
Managing Amazon EC2 VMs from the vSphere client
Automation and mulitplatformsupport is getting more and more attention. There was already a multihypervisor management tool from VMware for Hyper-V and VMware. From vCloud Automation Center you can create workloads in AWS, etc. Now Amazon comes with its own tool to bring the worlds of…
VMware Fling – Wavemaker Integration for vCenter Orchestrator
VMware Labs has released a great new fling which provides Integration for vCenter Orchestrator. Now you can easily run vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflows from within Wavemaker web applications. It covers much of the Workflow Presentation dialogs available in vCO, with Java services exposing the main…
7 Things You Should Know about licensing Windows 2012 R2 on VMware
Microsoft has adjusted her licensing policy once again regarding the availability of Windows Server 2012 R2 in combination with virtualization and cloud environments. I get a lot of questions regarding how to handle licensing Windows on VMware. Licensing of Windows server products with virtualization technologies…
Network connection lost after vCSA restore
Today we encountered a strange error after restoring a vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) in our vCloud Director environment. You would expect that a restore of a virtual machine would return it to its original state at the time of the back-up. As it turns out…
Nakivo backup & replication v4.0 released
Today Nakivo announced the release of their fourth version for backup & replication. Nakivo backup & replication is build for handeling virtual infrastructures and is certified by VMware. The product works agentless and is meant for both onsite and offsite backup of virtual machines. The…
VMware announces VMware Horizon 6
“VMware to the power of 6” That’s how, a few minutes ago, VMware announced VMware Horizon 6, the next step in VMware VDI solutions. It is an integrated solution that delivers published applications and desktops on a single platform. Horizon 6 is a complete desktop…
VMware vExpert 2014 !
VMGuru is very proud to announce that for the sixth year in a row, we can proudly put the VMware vExpert logo on our site. Alex, Edwin and myself have been awarded the vExpert award 2014 for our contributions to the VMware virtualization community. This is…
Updated: Supported Business Applications on the VMware Platform
More and more applications are supported on the VMware Platform, with the release of VMware vSphere 5.5 the boundaries of virtual machines have been expanded even more. Often we get questions about which applications are supported on the VMware virtual platform. There is a website…
VMware Horizon View graphics – vSGA vs vDGA
As VDI solutions become more and more mainstream for standard office environments, a new challenge appears. We can swap the bulky desktop and replace it with a small thin client, delivering Windows desktops from the datacenter. Enabling a more flexible way of working with free…
VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) is available now!
Today VMware announced the general availability of VMware Virtual SAN, a new and radically simple storage solution optimized for virtual environments. This was done during a VMware Virtual SAN online event of which you can view the replay here. It includes a demonstration of the product, experiences…
Please vote VMGuru.nl #1 vBlog 2014!
Last year VMGuru.nl finished #31 overall and the #4 Independent blog in the top VMware/virtualization blogs 2013. Now, it is time again to vote the top vBlogs for 2014. Please help us to increase our score and vote VMGuru.nl (Overall & Independent) As in last years poll…
How to delete an orphaned desktop pool
Time for a new problem in the VMware Horizon View series. After running into problems which forced me to ‘Manually delete protected Horizon View replicas‘ and ‘Link a VMware View desktop to its replica‘, now I encountered an orphaned desktop pool which could not be…
No internet connection results in slow vSphere client consoles
In the last few weeks a customer that I am working for has been making a lot of changes within their infrastructure. Some big and some (on the surface) small. Somewhere during those weeks a change was made and the consequence of that change has…
Building a new ESXi whitebox
Unfortunately the whitebox ESXi server I build in June 2011 died on me when testing a Nvidia Quadro K5000 graphics card. So I needed a new ESXi server for my home lab. I looked at some HP and Dell mini servers but I decided to…