Teradici APEX 2800 PCoIP Server Offload Card available now
Today Teradici announced the availability of their long awaited Server Offload Card, the Teradici APEX 2800. VDI implementations are typically constrained by the servers’ CPUs. The many tasks a CPU performs, together with PCoIP® protocol image encoding, limits the number of virtual machines that can…
Hyper-V removed from OpenStack
The new version of OpenStack, which will be released in Q2 of 2012, does not support Microsoft Hyper-V anymore. The developers have had enough with the buggy code. One of the developers of OpenStack has written a patch with which the Hyper-V code and support…
Trend Micro Deep Security 8 available now
At VMworld last year Trend Micro already announced their new version Deep Security 8, but now it is finally available. Deep Security is specifically designed for virtual environments. Its agent-less architecture addresses AV storms, minimizes operational complexity of security and allows organizations to increase VM…
RAID 5 and 6 support for VMware VSA
Yesterday VMware announced that it will be supporting RAID 5 and 6 with their Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). With the release of vSphere 5, VMware also released their VSA, a shared storage solution for the SMB market. VMware VSA uses the local storage in each…
Save the date: VMworld Europe 2012 Barcelona from 9-11 October
The date for VMworld Europe is now final. The 2012 edition will take place from Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 October in Barcelona. San Francisco August 27-30 Barcelona October 9-11 The event in Copenhagen last year was a great success. There were more than 200…
New iSCSI software release by Starwind brings all new features
Today we received the press release of the new Starwind iSCSI software with the all new VM Backup technology. 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. Now,…
VMware vCloud Director design guidelines
After VMware vSphere and View, VMware vCloud Director is the next big thing to setup and customers start asking for it. But the problem is that the knowledge and available resources are limited. So for real life implementations of vCloud Director we have to rely…
Review QNAP TS-459Pro II
Recently QNAP gave us the opportunity to review their QNAP TS-459Pro II NAS solution. We gladly accepted this opportunity and we got the NAS shipped to us a few weeks ago. The TS-459Pro II is a NAS device that is aiming at the SMB market….
VKernel vOps 4.5
On December 19th VKernel released version 4.5 of its vOps management software. vOps 4.5 addresses the increasing volume of routine virtual machine management tasks in virtualized environments. This increase is caused by the enormous growth in the number of virtual machines. Nowadays we provision many…
Top 5 – Best articles/videos
The past year has been great. The VMGuru.nl-crew posted 105 articles and 7 videos which have and been read by many visitors. This all resulted in 1.3M webpages served, 400.000 visits, 240.000 unique visitors and 556GB of traffic. Great numbers and steady growth over the…
Happy & virtual 2012!
This year has almost come to an end and what a year it has been. During 2011 VMware released a lot of new great products like vSphere 5, View 5, Workstation 8, Fusion 4, Horizon App Manager, vFabric Data Director, etc. We also visited some…
VMGuru.nl interview at VKernelTV
December 9th was the day of the annual dutch VMUG event in Nieuwegein (NL). It was a great day with many interesting sessions, labs, great people to meet and of course the MonsterVM. During the day Edwin and I had the chance to talk to…
And the Winners are….
Congratulations to our 2011 Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security winners, Edwin Broeken and Michael Jonker. Thank you all again who joined us at the Dutch VMUG 2011 event and whom retweeted the tweets. Also a big thanks go out to Trend Micro for giving away…
MonsterVM party crashes the Dutch VMUG!
[fancygallery id=”5″ album=”13″] During the Dutch VMUG event 2011 the MonsterVM was more or less party crashing on behalf of Steve Herrod. During the keynote Viktor got a call from Steve Herrod announcing that the MonsterVM was about to enter the Dutch VMUG event. During…
PHD Virtual Back-up & Replication 5.3
Last month PHD Virtual released version 5.3 of their Backup and Replication and PHD Virtual has really stepped up their game with this new release. There are a handful of new features and improvements but the biggest improvement is the enhanced scalability and performance. The…