Starwind review
Recently Starwind contacted us and asked if we would be interested in doing a review on their iSCSI SAN software solution. The enthusiasts that we are, we quickly replied that we would take the challenge. After some e-mails back and forth and setting up a small…
Imtech ICT awarded VMware Premier Partner status for 4th time
This is the fourth year Imtech ICT is awarded the Premier Partner status by VMware. Where a few years ago server virtualization prevailed, we now see a large increase in projects around the subjects (internal) Cloud, VDI, Security and Collaboration. Thanks to a lot of…
VMware announces Horizon App Manager
Two of the challenges introduced by cloud, SaaS, web applications is that users need to remember many passwords, and that administrators need to create accounts for each employee for every internal and 3rd party application that the company uses. Yesterday VMware has announced VMware Horizon…
Updated VMware support policy on MSCS
August 2010 I wrote an article on support for Exchange CCR clustering on VMware with iSCSI. VMware’s response then was very simple and straight forward. Exchange CCR clustering on VMware is not supported on iSCSI! When asked if VMware had plans to change this support…
Rumors on vSphere 5
The release of VMware vSphere 5.0 is almost visible on the horizon now. In the online communities and when talking with colleagues the term ESXi 5 and/or vSphere 5 keep coming up. The general expectation is that the release will be announced at VMworld 2011…
EMC Isilon 15PB Storage system
EMC has announced a new storage system called Isilon 108NL. The Isilon storage system consists of 36 disk 4U nodes which can be joined together to create a 144 node storage system with a capacity of 15 PB. It’s a scale-out storage system where each…
Can we beat Kasparov with a single virtual machine?
14 years ago, on May 11, 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue II chess-computer won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer achieving 11.38 GFLOPS running 30…
Connect ISO to VM the PowerCLI way
I recently bought a new server for my home lab, or at least, it was the start of my home lab. After my ESX host crashed two years ago I didn’t took the time to rebuild it. As I started to rebuild every single VM…
Orchestrator plugin for Active Directory released
Last Friday VMware released the Orchestrator plugin for Active Directory v1.0. With the plugin it is possible to manage Active Directory objects straight from within Orchestrator. For those of you that don’t know what VMware Orchestrator is: VMware vCenter Orchestrator provides out of the box…
eLearing: Transition to ESXi Essentials
Yesterday Anne Jan linked me to an article on the VMware website which contained information on a free online training course. The title is Transition to ESXi Essentials. The course is dedicated to ESXi and depending on your learning style it takes about 3 hours to…
VMware Fling – PXE Manager for vSphere
I just fiddled somewhat with the new fling from the VMware site: the VMware PXE Manager for vSphere. And if you ask me, it’s not just a ‘fling’, but it is really, really useful. It’s easy to install and easy to use. PXE Manager for vCenter…
Cisco, a serious player in the server market
In the past, when I had to design a virtual infrastructure, I had a limited range of server hardware to pick from. Mainly HP and Dell or an occasional IBM server. But since the beginning of this year I can not bypass Cisco. It is…
VMware is still the best!
Of course we all knew that already :) Paul Venezia posted an in depth article on Infoworld where he compares the four main server virtualization software competitors on a selection of criteria. Now, you can nit-pick on the measurements he made or the criteria he…
Registration for VMworld Europe 2011 is open
Every year VMware is organizes VMworld. It offers attendees informative sessions and hands-on labs, plus access to a wealth of technology partners. The U.S. edition of VMworld takes place in the The Venetian in Las Vegas from August 29th until September 1st. The European edition…
The V-team is complete again!
After 5 years at Centric Alex has accepted a new challenge and on May 1st he will be following Edwin, Anne Jan and myself to Imtech ICT. At Imtech ICT his new job will be Solution Architect. We are very excited that Alex is coming…