The road to VCP 4 certification
After becoming a VCP4 I regularly get questions from my colleagues on how to become a VCP4. Can I take the VCP410 exam without further training? I attended the VI3, Install & configure course but didn’t take the exam yet. Can I take the VCP…
New articles published for week ending 9/13/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
CDG Technical update
Yesterday, the three of us attended one of the quarterly CDG(1) Technical update sessions which was held at ‘de Glazen Ruimte‘ in Maarssen. The three subject were: RES Software and VMware View by Bart van Winden (RES) en Ton Hermes (VMware); Citrix reduces traffic jams…
New articles published for week ending 9/6/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Wyse Pocket Cloud demo
Just before VMworld 2009 Wyse released a great application for the iPhone called Wyse Pocket Cloud. It’s a great new application which enables you to connect to servers of desktops using RDP or VMware View. So, what do you need and how can you get…
VCP410 certified.
Today I took my VCP410 exam, as announced earlier this week. So I studied hard this week and …………….. succeeded! My score was 344 points of max 400 500. Unfortunately that’s 86%, not enough to become a VMware Certified Instructor :( (Edited after reading VCP…
VMGuru.nl widget for Mac OS X Dashboard
VMGuru.nl widgetI finally got around to it: Installing the development tools for Mac OS X. After a couple of months using the Mac I now enter the world of development again. One of the first things I tried was a dashboard widget with the VMGuru.nl…
The VMworld 2009 Lab Cloud
Yesterday we showed you how VMware designed and build an awesome infrastructure just for one week of VMworld 2009. Awesome figures! 776 ESX servers, 37TB RAM, 6.208 cores, 348TB storage and 37.248 virtual machines. But what is this infrastructure used for? Well VMware primarily uses…
Long distance VMotion
Just as Microsoft is proud to present users with live migration in Hyper-V 2.0, VMware announces that it supports long distance VMotion up to 200 Kilometers. As a VMware Premier Partner we already heard this was coming but we never realized it would be available…
VMware View software PCoIP demo
VMware announced their effort to produce a software implementation of PCoIP together with Terradici at VMworld 2009 in Cannes. Since then I have been anxiously waiting for a demo or beta. During today’s keynote at VMworld 2009 VMware gave a demo of their long awaited…
VMware licenses RTO’s Virtual Profiles
User profiles are a pain in the *. All to often profiles get corrupted by multiple sessions and logons are often slow. RTO has a product for this: Virtual Profiles. This product solves a lot of problems with user profiles. If you are going to…
Building and maintaining the VMworld 2009 Datacenter
It is becoming a sequel, the datacenter VMware has build for this weeks VMworld 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In addition to our two previous articles (art1, art2), today we found two very nice videos loaded with tons of techno porno! The…
Virtual Machine configuration maximums
I’m in IT for more then 12 years and during that period I learned, never to trust something another professional tells you. So as I am studying for my VCP410 exam, coming Friday, I came across the Virtual Machine configuration maximums. I saw the info…
VMware launches vCloud Express
Today in his keynote speech Paul Maritz announced vCloud Express. vCloud Express is an Infrastructure as a Service offering which is delivered by the leading VMware service provider partners like Logica, BlueLock, MelbourneIT and Terremark. It provides reliable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure that ensures compatibility with…
Citrix HDX 3D with host-side GPU-based encoding
Yesterday Citrix announced HDX 3D which is an enhancement to the ICA protocol which, according to Citrix, delivers 3D applications by only using one-tenth of the bandwidth. This is fierce competition for VMware’s PCoIP which they developed with Teradici and which VMware will demo at…