StarWind Offers Free NFR Licenses for Lab Testing, Demonstration, and Training Purposes
Starwind is an innovative company and one of the first to offer an iSCSI initiator on the Microsoft Windows platform without a lot of hassle. The company offers Not For Resale (NFR) licenses to some specific groups of IT professionals. If you hold or are…
Review: VCP5 Study Guide by Brian Atkinson
A few months ago Erik and I passed our VCP-510 Exam, we used several different resources to get the job done. Several people asked us how to prepare for the VCP-510 exam. Fortunately Brian Atkinson a fellow vExpert, wrote a “small” book (almost 800 pages!!)…
RES HyperDrive released
In January of this year RES announced that they where working on a secure way to deliver ‘follow me data‘ and file-sharing with a product they call RES HyperDrive. As of Yesterday (June 5th 2012) RES HyperDrive is available. As was made clear in the announcement…
Available now: VMware vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide
Last Friday, VMware released their vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide v1.0. It’s a great and extensive guide to completely secure your VMware vSphere 5 Infrastructure from ESXi host to vCenter server and from the vNetwork to virtual machine. The coincidence is that yesterday I had…
Great VMUG Belgium event
Last Friday Alex and I were invited to speak at the Belgium VMUG. Erik Schils, the Belgian VMUG leader, had setup a VMUG conference at Cisco in Diegem. After a 3 hour drive to Belgium, the conference turned out to be pretty busy, Erik managed…
Unboxing the QNAP TS-869-Pro TurboNAS
A while ago, the folks at QNAP sent us one of their NAS devices for a test run around the block. You can read the article over here. Now, we were quite fond of the device and the capabilities and QNAP was pretty pleased with…
vCenter Operations Manager for View
VMware is rapidly expanding the possibilities of their new management suite VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCops) with their recent release of VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View. This new addition provides end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and efficiency of a VMware View virtual desktop…
VMGuru.nl at VMUG.Be – The Blogger Edition: Register now!
The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is…
The pRoad to vExpert
I often get several questions regarding how I started in IT, how I became an Enterprise Architect, how did I get where I am nowadays, what did you do in the past years and what my advice would be if someone wanted to get a…
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Demo Day
Red Hat Benelux is organizing a demo day for their virtualisation solution “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization”. During this day they will present the latest news, present the road-map and future releases. Also on the program is a demo of RHEV and the presentation of a…
Trend Micro Deep Security 8.0 SP1 released
Last Friday Trend Micro released Deep Security 8.0 Service Pack 1. The most significant changes in SP1 are: On Demand scan agent based anti-malware on Linux. Supported versions are Red Hat Linux 5, 6 (64 bit only), Suse Linux 10, 11 (32 and 64bit) Protecting…
VMware announces View 5.1
VMware announced today that VMware View 5.1 will be available Q2 2012. Several new features and benefits will be included, like a good security enhancement to add two-factor authentication through Radius integration. Also the whole rewritten USB implementation rocks. VMware View 5.1 Features and…
Updated(2012-03): Build numbers database
It is time for an updated version of our build numbers database. Besides adding the new build numbers I also ‘repaired’ some errors. If you think you’re missing products or build numbers, please leave a comment below. I’ll do my best to add them to…
MigrationWiz: E-mail migration to the cloud
For a recent customers I have been working on migrating e-mail from several completely separated e- mail infrastructures to one Office 365 environment. To achieve this the customer has chosen to use a product called MigrationWiz. This product is offered as a web based service/cloud…
VMGuru.nl prolongues the vExpert status in 2012
The word is out! The judges have decided and we here at VMGuru.nl are very happy to conclude that Edwin, Erik and myself can call ourselves vExpert 2012 again! This year, the process was a bit different, as VMware decided that vExperts can be appointed…