Hyper-V: Do you want to run HA OR Linux?
Last night, after my son’s first birthday, I checked my missed twitter messages and a retweet from Duncap Epping caught my eye. It was a link to an article from Eric Gray on vCritical about HA for Linux guests on Hyper-V. Now you will probably…
Get Ready for all Microsoft virtualization products? Why should I?
Yesterday I attended the ‘TechNet – Get Ready for all Microsoft virtualization products’ session in Utrecht (NL). This was a new style paid (€99,-) Technet session, max of 20-30 professionals in a classroom. The program consisted of Hyper-V, App-V, Med-V, Terminal services and System Center…
Tripwire introduces vWire
Yesterday Tripwire Announced their new VI monitoring and automation tool, vWire, which gives you full control over virtual infrastructure. With vWire you monitor the health of your virtual infrastructure, correlate this information to provide context and insight into potential issues, and act to prevent and…
Red Hat subscriptions on a VMware infrastructure
The world of licenses and subscription models is a complex whole, by adding a virtual component it even got more complex. Virtual machines aren’t bound to one physical server and can move freely across several physical servers or even in and out of a cloud….
Virtualization: from hype to foundation seminar (NL)
In June our employer, Centric, is organizing a virtualization seminar for current and future clients. The title is: ‘Virtualization: from hype to foundation’ or in dutch ‘Virtualisatie: van hype naar fundament’. The description and program (in dutch) can be found below (NL) Programma Direct…
New articles published for week ending 6/7/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
VMware View 3.1 – Fun and Pain
For about three weeks ago I was asked by my colleague Erik Scholten to help him out with his VMware View project for our Service Center. I thought this is my change to explore the ins and –outs of VMware View. The infrastructure for VMware…
Is VMware becoming the bad guy?
It may be clear to you that we at VMGuru.nl are huge VMware fans but when we claim to inform you about all the virtualization related news, we owe it to you to bring positive as well as negative news about VMware, Microsoft, Citrix (2)…
VMware View performance issue
As you may have read we are busy implementing a VMware View environment and have encountered numerous chalenges already. Most of them have been solved by hard and innovative work or the upgrade from VMware View 3.0.1 to 3.1. Especially the upgrade to VMware View…
Do the math correctly
Browsing through Planet V12n I stumbled upon a great article by Steve Kaplan, which I didn’t want to keep from you. As we all know we’re in the midst of a hypervisor battle. VMware vs (Microsoft / Citrix). VMware focuses on their broad range of…
Want to become VCP on VMware vSphere 4?
May 21th VMware released their new flagship product VMware vSphere 4. With a new product comes a new set of courses, we (VMGuru.nl-crew) already attended the ‘What’s new in VMware vSphere 4‘ course given by Eric Sloof. And there’s also a new ‘VMware vSphere, Install…
New articles published for week ending 5/31/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
IP Change
As Froos announced earlier we moved to a new IP address today. It seems that the site is up and running fine but it is possible that some folks get a “host not found” due to DNS record replication. We hope all will be updated…
Low cost shared storage for test/home lab
A few weeks ago I attended the ‘What’s new in VMware vSphere 4‘ course given by Eric Sloof. Eric pointed us to a very nice and cheap shared storage solution from Iomega which he also uses in his home lab, the Iomega Storcenter ix-series. I…
Cisco Nexus 1000V released
Last night I received an e-mail from Cisco thanking me for my work in the Nexus 1000V beta program and announcing the availability of the final product. For those of you that don’t know the Cisco Nexus 1000V, it is a pure software implementation of…