The VMware Infrastructure 3 Support Life Cycle
If you haven’t upgraded to VMware vSphere 4 by now, you should consider it and rethink your strategy. VMware has removed all but the most recent versions of their Virtual Infrastructure product binaries from their download page on June 17th. As of May 2010, the…
Consolidation ratios. Picture vs thousand words…
When we are selling, designing and/or building a virtual infrastructure, we brag about consolidation ratios we can accomplish. But what’s a consolidation ratio of 8 to 1 or 10 to 1? In this case a picture says more than a thousand words …….. On the…
Problem with Update 2 for ESX 4.0 and View clients using PCoIP
VMware has given out a VMware Alert for customers who are using VMware View in combination with PCoIP and ESX 4.0 to NOT update with ESX Update 2 yet. After upgrading ESX 4.0 hosts with Update 2 VMware View clients are unable to connect to…
Determining VMware Build Numbers – view online
[Updated 12-06-2010] Not all VMware products return their version number nicely. They often come in a long build number. Edwin has done a nice job collecting various build numbers of the VMware products. Now it is possible to view these build numbers online. Check out the Build…
Dell EqualLogic 2010-2011 product roadmap
We recently received an update about the new stuff that is coming from Dell EqualLogic. Because a lot the information was under NDA so I can’t go into details or give you release dates. What’s here already? Last year Dell released the 10GB connections for…
vExpert 2010!! [Update]
Yesterday I already reported on Edwin being awarded vExpert 2010! Today Anne Jan and myself received the identical e-mail from John Troyer, so we’re excited to tell you that we extended our vExpert 2009 and are also VMware vExperts 2010!
vExpert 2010!!
This weekend Edwin received an e-mail from John Troyer (VMware) confirming his 2010 VMware vExpert award! Edwin congratulations! For those of you who aren’t familiar, the VMware vExpert Award is given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of VMware users over the…
VMware Fusion, an essential Mac app
Last week VMware released the new 3.1 version of their Mac workstation virtualisation application and according to VMware it is better, stronger, and faster than ever before and it is a free update for all VMware Fusion 3 customers. When I started my VMware…
Gartner: VMware, the market leader
Today, Gartner published the first-ever Magic Quadrant for the x86 Server Virtualization market, naming VMware as the only vendor in the leadership quadrant, with a sizeable advantage over all competitors. Simply put, from the most trusted voice in the IT market, VMware, the market leader!…
Recovering from lost snapshot on RDM
A couple of weeks ago I had a problem where the connection between a snapshot and its parent disk was gone. The parent was a raw device mapping pointing to a LUN on a SAN. This all happened during a migration from one type of SAN…
Trade in XenApp for VMware View part 2
It is always nice to see how Citrix fan-boys reacts on publications about VMware View. Especially when it comes to an comparison or XenApp for View trade in. It is often said that Citrix listens to their customers but they are seldom heard! People need…
Trade in XenApp for VMware View
As a reaction on the Citrix program to trade in your VMware View licenses for XenDesktop, VMware comes with a program to trade in your XenApp licenses for VMware View. The trade in program is quite simple: For the price of 3 years XenApp SA…
Changing volume access from command line for EqualLogic
Last week Erik encountered a small issue which required him to change the access to almost all volumes on an EqualLogic storage infrastructure. Although EqualLogic has a great interface compared to others, it doesn’t allow changing volume access for multiple volumes at the same time….
EqualLogic blog
Dell EqualLogic has a integration kit for integrating their storage solution with VMware and various Mirosoft products. In this Host Integration Kit you find AutoSnapshotManager/VMware Edition and the AutoSnapshotManager/Microsoft Edition. While I was searching for information about when to use which edition of AutoSnapshotManager for…
VMworld 2010 registration open
Every year VMware is organizing 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 Moscone Center, San Fransisco from August 30 till September 2nd. The European edition will…