How to fit 100 people in a 9 square foot office?
The solution to that problem isn’t hard, just built virtualized workspaces. Last few weeks I have had several dreams how such a place could look like. Imagine a small 1 person office completely surrounded in glass with lots of plants in it like a green…
New KB Articles published for week ending 12/28/2008
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Creating portgroups with PowerShell
I must be a workaholic. I was browsing my laptop for some movie and I came across a folder with all kinds of plugins for VirtualCenter. Things like addPortgroup and other stuff. Although it’s very handy to use those plugins I like to be able…
Seasons Greetings from VMGuru.nl!
Three months ago we kicked off with our own virtualization blog, with the intention to share our tips, tricks, news and real life experiences. We hope you enjoyed our effort, the statistics say you do more and more. From the end of October until today,…
New KB Articles published for week ending 12/21/2008
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
VMware vSphere?
Several blogs have already reported on this issue, the new version of VMware’s ESX product line will not be called VI4 or ESX(i)4 but VMware vSphere. When I read this I thought which idiot came up with that name? vSphere? What’s that? What is the…
Google GM EMEA switches to VMware
VMware posted yesterday that there will be a new general manager for the EMEA area, Maurizio Carli. He will be responsible for strategic planning, business operations and management of key functions for EMEA including sales, channels, services and marketing. He will report directly to Carl…
VMWorld Europe 2009 tease
Yesterday Matthijs Haverink from Virtualfuture.info posted an interview with Richard Garsthagen (VMware). This video was made at the VMUG meeting in NL last friday. Richard reveals some details about VMWorld Europe 2009 like that there will be around 150 break-out sessions and you won’t have…
Update Manager session disconnects
Recently I experienced problems with VMware Update Manager. When working with the virtual infrastructure the VI client suddenly displays a message stating that my session with VMware Update Manager was no longer valid and that the plugin would be unloaded. At first I suspected that…
HA problem checklist
Last few weeks I have been very busy solving HA issues at a client site. As you may have read I solved the problems by swapping out the USB sticks and troubleshooting BIOS settings. Now my collegues asked me if I could write down all…
Virtual Offices
Virtual Office is so much more than just a virtual working place. Things like VOIP, teleconferencing etc will add up to the ultimate virtual office. I think a lot of companies should strive to create virtual offices. This way they can cut back their expenses….
New KB articles published for week ending 12/14/2008
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
VMware HCL searchable
VMGuy posted a very very useful item today… The HCL is searchable!! No more downloading PDF’s before you give an advice, just search the up to date HCL
nWorks 4.0 VMware management
Since Veeam took over nWorks they been working very hard on the next version of the already pretty decent VMware connectors for management software like SCOM and HP. This resulted in the just released version 4.0 of their VMware Smart Plug-in for VMware (HP) and…
Real thin clients with Sunray
Yesterday AJ and me have been attending a seminar from Sun Microsystems about the Sunray. The Sunray is the next step in moving more processes into the backend and less hardware at the frontend. After a little introduction of the Sunray, Sible Schöne of the Climate…