New articles published for week ending 8/9/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
WMworld Europe 2010 scheduled after VMworld 2010
The rumors were already on the internet, but last week it was confirmed: VMworld Europe is scheduled after VMworld in the US. So now it will be held in Q4 of 2010. The official statement: We are pleased to announce that VMworld Europe will be…
VMware View and templates
Moments after Erik posted about vCenter vs VDI, I got problems with the VMware View 3.1.1 environment I’m setting up. I wanted to adjust the quality settings of Adobe Flash in a certain desktop pool. I started to edit the settings for the desktop pool…
vCenter vs VDI?
It sounds a bit strange, ‘vCenter vs VDI‘, as both are VMware products but it’s true. As usual a twitter contact pointed me to a VMware KB article which states the following. ‘VirtualCenter tasks that conflict with VMware Virtual Desktop functionality‘ My first thought was…
VMware View with software Teradici PCoIP on the horizon?
Today Virtualization.info published the news that VMware View 4.0 went into private beta with the Teradici PCoIP software implementation. I was unable to verify this but I assume it’s correct. So why am I so excited about the upcoming version?
New articles published for week ending 8/2/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
New memory management HP DL360/380 G6
Scouting the Internet on information about the new G6 evolution of HP servers I ran into a valuable article from Martijn Lohmeijer’s blog. In a lessons learned article he warns about the new memory management in the new HP ProLiant DL360/380 G6. We all know…
VMware vs Citrix @ Burton Group Catalyst event
Burton Group is in their last day of their annual Catalyst Conference in San Diego (July 27 – 31, 2009). Wednesday they had their announced VMware vs Citrix battle and I just watched their video feed. It was a very interesting ‘battle’ between VMware’s Scott…
10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
So has anyone come up to you to wish you a Happy Sysadmin Day today? No? Why not? You deserve it! Even if you are a Virtual Sysadmin! Like most Virtual Sysadmins, you spend your days (and sometimes your nights and weekends) installing hypervisors, creating…
Having trouble digging through the VMware View log files?
As you may have read here on VMGuru.nl we are great fans of VMware View and spend a lot of time testing and implementing various versions. One thing which is still missing, despite the new(er) versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1, is a proper way to view…
New articles published for week ending 7/26/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Veeam nWorks 5.0 released
Do you want to monitor your VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager or HP Operations manager? No Problem! Veeam just released their new nWorks 5.0 which has native support for vSphere, vCenter 4.0 and ESX 4.0. It allows for preconfigured monitoring…
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has been Released To Manufacturing
I was checking out the news and was checking out the competition on Microsoft’s Virtualization Team Blog and ran into some interesting news. Microsoft just announced that their Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft hyper-V Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing. I guess…
Virtualise Microsoft Exchange: Can you really?
As Microsoft Exchange server is one of my area’s of expertise (or so they keep telling me :) ) I have had numerous discussions in the past whether you should virtualize Exchange or not. For ages Microsoft has claimed it cannot be done, performance would…
Vacation update (week 27-29)
The post frequency on VMGuru.nl has been a bit low because I have been on ‘holiday’ for the last three weeks. During these three weeks I’ve been very busy moving to my new house. Now I’m back and the first thing to do is to…