Enterprise Hypervisor comparison (updated 04-06-09)
April 25th we published our Enterprise Hypervisor comparison and we got very positive comments on it. A few people were kind enough to provide us feedback so we could improve the document, thanks for that. I collected all comments and feedback and created version 5.5…
Upgrade VMware View 3.0 to 3.1
This morning I told you that VMware had released VMware View 3.1 and that I would upgrade our 3.0.1 installations to 3.1 as soon as possible and let you know how the improvements work out for us. Well, it is time. After reading the release…
VMware View 3.1 released
As you all have seen on VMGuru.nl we’re very busy implementing VMware View solutions. These solutions were based on VMware View 3.0.1 but yesterday evening VMware released the new version of their VDI solution VMware View 3.1. So what’s new in VMware View 3.1? Performance…
Don’t let Microsoft “Quick” on you again
As you may have noticed, we at VMGuru.nl have been extremely busy the last few week. Tons of work accompanied with the right amount of stress, illness and personally the build of my new house. This certainly shows in the amount of article we posted…
New articles published for week ending 5/24/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
New articles published for week ending 5/17/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
vSphere4 GA minus 3 days
We are now 3 days from the day we, VMware enthusiasts, have all been waiting for. The general availability of vSphere 4! According to the information that VMware has published officially goes on sale on Thursday May 21st. As VMware Premier Partner we received numerous…
Spaces in LDAP
With one of our deployments of VMware View we had problems with the linked clones. Adding the computer accounts to Active Directory failed everytime. Even after recreating the pool it failed. Computer accounts weren’t created in Active Directory. After a lot of troubleshooting, logfile reading…
Website maintenance
Due to an IP address change at our hosting service this website may be temporarily unavailable during the coming two weeks. We will try to limit the disruption as much as possible. Because of the DNS replication time this may take a maximum of two…
New articles published for week ending 5/10/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
The name is Epping, Duncan Epping….
This morning I received a tweet from Duncan Epping, Duncan works at VMware Benelux and is the owner of Yellow-Bricks.com. In the community it was a public secret that Duncan was in the USA to defend his case to become one of the fist VCDX…
Short outage
The site has been down for about an hour or so. Due to a shortage on another server in the rack, the powerbar decided to close down the whole rack for damagecontrol. The cause has been found and the machine removed, so we’re back up…
Template customization problem solved
As it is VMware View season I ran into a new problem deploying new virtual desktops in the virtual infrastructure I presented to you in this article. The people who read it know that the infrastructure serves various clients/customers so I have to deploy various…
New articles published for week ending 5/3/2009
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
VMware View log viewing
With the addition of VMware View your environment gains complexity. Before adding components like VMware View or Lab Manager you only have one point of logging in your virtual enviroment, vCenter Server. Now you have to look into the textfiles itself if you want to…