Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: overpromising and underdelivering
A few weeks ago Microsoft released Windows Server 2012 and with it also Hyper-V 3. The newest release of Hyper-V has some great improvements and new features which will in some cases definitely challenge VMware. To make use of these features and to manage your…
Bye VMworld, until next year?
It is done! VMworld 2012 in Barcelona is over and today I will fly back home. Yesterday I mainly bested by visiting suppliers and sponsors of VMguru.nl. The things that really matter to me and jumped in my daily work directly also can…
VMworld 2012 Barcelona wrap-up with VKernel
A wrap-up of VMworld 2012 in Barcelona with Alex Rosemblat of VKernel/Quest/Dell.
AJ discusses VDI storage solutions
AJ discusses VDI storage solutions with Jonathan Klick from VKernel/Quest/Dell.
Manage multiple Cisco UCS domains with one tool
Today I visited the Cisco booth here at VMworld 2012 in Barcelona and got a inside view of the UCS Central. UCS Central is a tool Cisco is working on to manage multiple Cisco UCS systems/domains. At the moment it is still in beta but…
A VMworld party hangover
Wednesday evening is traditionally the evening for the VMworld party. At VMworld we work very hard but we party harder but yesterday it got a bit too wild. This morning I woke up with a large VMGuru-logo-tattoo on my arm ;-) There’s just no…
Impressions of VMworld 2012 Europe in Barcelona Day 3
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NetApp & Cisco present the Express Pod
Today NetApp will present a new baby FlexPod called the Express Pod. It’s a small FlexPod ideal for smaller customers for whom the full scale FlexPod is too big and expensive. In April 2012 I wrote: So, Cisco and NetApp now include cheaper…
QNAP announces firmware update with full VMware VAAI support.
Yesterday at the VMworld 2012 Europe event in Barcelona I spoke with an engineer from QNAP at their booth. He told us that QNAP will be introducing a new firmware release for their Pro line. The version number will probably be 3.8 (current…
VMworld Europe 2012 – General Session Wednesday 2012
Transcript of this mornings General Session with Steve Herrod. There are all kinds of discussions about access, applications and infrastructrures and how that looks. In the past the pc was the device of access. IT could dictate the rules. Now the user…
Impressions of VMworld 2012 Europa at Barcelona Day 2
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Licensing Oracle in a virtualized environments
Licensing Oracle servers in a virtualized environment has always been a difficult issue. Edwin wrote an extensive article on that in the past. At VMworld 2012 in San Francisco an Oracle employee made some statements regarding Oracle licensing on VMworldTV but they were…
Demo of the new VMware vSphere Multi-Hypervisor Management
As we heard in the keynote this morning you can now manage multiple hypervisors with VMware vCenter. Eric Sloof visited the VMware booth and got a demo.
VMware releases Mobile Knowledge Portal
Is it hard for you to locate the latest VMware documentation? Wouldn’t it be great to have the VMware documentation with you on your mobile device? Now you can! VMware just published a cool application which just does this all, the VMware Mobile Knowledge…
VMware expands vCloud Suite
Today at the keynote at VMworld 2012 in Barcelona VMware announced the expansion of their cloud management software suite and the brand new vCloud Suite with some new updates. VMware also adds a product to the series called VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1, and…