Windows applications on Chromebook with BLAST
In September 2011 VMware gave us a sneak peek at Project AppBlast and with VMware Horizon View we can use AppBlast technology to access desktops using a HTML5 compatible browse. But as of today we can experience the true power of AppBlast. Today VMware and…
VMworld 2014 – Save The Date!
The VMware Partner Exchange is due in one week, but we are already looking forward towards VMworld 2014! This year the conference will also be held in San Francisco in August and six week later the Europe edition in Barcelona. Aug. 24-28 VMworld 2014 U.S….
Manually delete protected replicas in Horizon View
Two weeks ago Sander wrote an article on ‘How to link VMware View desktop to its replica‘. Unfortunately in my case my server died and because I had to reinstall my Horizon View environment. Because the View desktops were provisioned on another server and on…
VMware acquires AirWatch
VMware and AirWatch just announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which VMware will acquire AirWatch. Airwatch is a leading provider of enterprise mobile management and security solutions. VMware will acquire AirWatch for approximately $1.175B in cash and approximately $365M of installment payments…
Review: Synology Diskstation DS1513+ with VMware – Part 3
In part 1 we finished the hardware installation of the Synology and setup of the DSM software. In part 2 we finished setting up the ESXi environment with iSCSI and the networking part which includes multipathing. In this final part 3 we will setup the…
IBM Cognos licensing in a VMware environment
IBM makes it possible with their licensing to run IBM Cognos on a virtualisation hypervisor like VMware ESXi and make full use of vMotion, HA and DRS. Many IBM products can be licensed as User-Based or Capacity-based. If the product has a server component, it…
How to link VMware View desktop to its replica
A while back I was looking at a VMware View environment that had Storage DRS enabled and set to automatic. If I recall correctly, one of the first things the installation document from VMware mentions is not to use Storage DRS in a View enviroment….
Top 10 articles of 2013
For VMGuru 2013 was a great year in which we wrote 104 blog posts and introduced our new, more responsive and bandwidth-friendly website-layout. Due to this served 2.2M pages to 426.338 visitors, using 346,5GB bandwidth last year. But which are the most popular blog posts…
Happy new year! Happy 2014!
We finished 2013 on a high with our new website-layout and a increasing number of visitors. In 2013 we served 2.2M pages to 426.338 visitors, using 346,5GB bandwidth. In comparison: in 2012 we served 1.4M pages to 371.669 visitors, using 632.4GB bandwidth. in 2011 we…
Cisco released UCS Manager 2.2
Last week Cisco released an early Christmas present, Cisco UCS Manager (code name: El Capitan), which includes a ton of new features. For those of you who don’t know Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM), it provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components of…
VMware Fling – Real-time audio/video test
VMware Labs has released a great new fling, an application with which you can verify and test the real-time audio/video performance. The application includes a player that displays the ‘virtual webcam’ feed, and also loops back the audio if required. This allows for testing without a…
VMware Horizon View 5.3 is available
At VMworld 2013 in Barcelona VMware announced the new version of their EUC product Horizon View 5.3. Now it is finally available for download! VMware Horizon View 5.3 includes a significant number of new or improved features. Direct Pass-through Graphics Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration (vDGA)…
Free vSphere Hypervisor limitations removed!
Last week I ran into another discussion about the hypervisor under a XenApp deployment it had to be free or very cheap. So the customer was thinking about loading Hyper-V below it. Ok can be a viable option but the admins hoped it would be…
How to: Install VMware NSX
Hany Michael from Hypervizor.com, has made series of videos showing the installation ease of VMware NSX. Unfortunately NSX is not GA yet, but in the videos you can see how the installation goes. Check these out: Deploying the NSX vAppliance Deploying the NSX Controllers Preparing…
VMGuru at Geek Whisperers
Way back in time, when we started VMGuru, we actually had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Full of ideas and energy we went to all the events (VMworld Cannes, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Dutch VMUG, Belgian VMUG, etcetera), packed with laptops, photo- and videocameras…