VMware GO & VMware vCenter Product Family
At VMworld 2009, which started yesterday, VMware launched two new products. VMware GO and VMware vCenter Product Family. VMware launched VMware GO which is targets small to medium sized businesses. VMware GO is a free beta service that makes it simple for clients to get…
VMware vSphere 4 video contest. And the winner is ……..
As they do every year, VMware has asked their customers to put their creativity to the test. The assigment was to create a video that shows why business-critical applications run best on VMware vSphere 4. Last week VMware announced the five winners and from August…
VCP410 booked
Today was the first day to become a VCP on VMware vSphere 4. I wanted to become one of the first VCP’s on vSphere 4 within our company and tried to schedule the exam last week but due to voucher problems I didn’t succeed. A…
New articles published for week ending 8/30/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d released
Last week Iomega announced a new NAS appliance called the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. It is based on EMC storage technologies and contains four SATA-300 drivebays. With a storage capacity of 2, 4 and 8 TB it is the ideal NAS appliance for small businesses, distributed…
VMware vSphere 4 reference card
On the site www.vReference.com I came across a post announcing the “vSphere 4 reference card”. Wondering what this was I started reading the post. It seems that Forbes Guthrie made a document containing hard limits for the vSphere 4 products. I found the list of…
VMware View: Design Best Practices course
Last weekend VMware launched a new course called ‘VMware View: Design Best Practices’. It’s a hands-on training course which explores the foundations of designing VMware View architectures and is meant for System architects, system administrators, IT managers, and individuals responsible for designing VMware View architectures….
vSphere 4 HA may not work with certain IP addresses
Filtering through my e-mail after a short, one week, holiday I ran into an e-mail from one of my colleagues pointing me to VMware KB Article 1013013. This KB article describes one of the first patches for vCenter Server 4. The problem is that High…
New articles published for week ending 8/23/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Getting your money back
To get a new project funded is often hard work. You have to calculate how much it costs to build your virtual infrastructure and how fast you can save money so you can justify the investment. Even after you started the project and you are…
New articles published for week ending 8/16/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Virtualization increases risk of data loss?
‘Virtualization increases risk of data loss?‘ Let it be very clear that this is not my opinion but a quote from an article published today by the ‘Automatiserings Gids’ (NL) in which it quotes James Lyne, security specialist at Sophos. Lyne made his statements during…
Great new VMware whitepapers
Usually everybody is on holiday during this period and because of that we lack new projects and great news. ‘Komkommertijd‘, as we call it in the Netherlands. Fortunately (for us) Duncan Epping, known from Yellow-Bricks, isn’t on holiday (yet) and he pointed me to some…
Website update
‘ello Folks! Today we’ve updated WordPress to its latest version. There was a serious bug in a previous version and we already had some nice people testing our security. So, from this spot, I’d like to thank them all for their work of probing our…
VMware to Acquire SpringSource
VMware announced yesterday that they are into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held SpringSource, a leader in enterprise and web application development andmanagement. SpringSource is the innovator and driving force behind some of the most popular and fastest growing open source developer communities, application…