HA problems caused by BIOS setting?
It may sound a bit strange, BIOS settings causing HA problems…… At the client site were I previously had problems with faulty HP USB sticks I still experience problems. After the problems with the green USBs after 1,5 week we received new black USBs. This…
Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 SP2
While reading some of the RSS feeds I stumbled onto an article about Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 SP2. Now you might say, what is so special about a servicepack? Well in this case it means that you can run IAG 2007 virtual!!! First off what…
VDM: Delete computer accounts afterwards
We did a lot of testing lately with VDM for a proof of concept for a client and for our Centric/VMware seminar. One of the things we found missing was the cleanup of computer accounts after a VM was deleted.
Centric/VMware seminar. It was a success!
Yesterday, after weeks of preparation, it was finally time to treat our clients to a day of VMware delight. The last days especially were very very hard, I must agree with AJ, everyone who claims IT is a 9-to-5 job is insane. Thanks to Marc…
Managing Remote ESX Hosts Over WAN with VirtualCenter
While designing a virtual infrastructure you have to consider a lot of options: Are we going for ‘normal’ server or do we use blades, are we going for an iSCSI SAN or are we going for a FC SAN, etc. If you got your infrastructure…
IT is no 9 to 5 business
IT is no 9 to 5 business. I must admit, some of the time it is my own doing, but sometimes it should be avoidable. I had a discussion with a coworker in the sales department about this. I said that we spend more time…
New KB articles published for week ending 11/23/2008
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Some video’s for the weekend
I just got my hands on a laptop in our dance school (something with digitizing video’s as an excuse :)) so I thought it would be funny to post some links to some VMware related video’s for the slow monday morning.. Just to get back…
VMware licensing change
Today I received a reminder of the September VMware licensing change. In short a processor may now contain a maximum of 6 cores instead of 4. Prices have not changed. This is very good news for VMware end users who can benefit from increased processor…
Centric/VMware event
Title: Centric/VMware event Location: Koperen Hoogte, Zwolle, The Netherlands Language: Dutch Register: Click here Description: An event organised by Centric together with VMware. VDI and SRM presentation and demos will be given. Speakers: Ton Hermes (VMware), Willem van Engeland (VMware), Edwin Weijdema(Centric), Marcel Timmermans (Centric),…
Virtualizing Exchange
A lot of companies still have some doubts or fears for virtualizing Exchange, so I compiled some information on virtualization Exchange on VMware ESX. There are already a lot of articles and posts on this subject. Below you find a couple of links to these…
SRM in a box
It’s a new hype and many blog have reported on this subject, ‘SRM in a box‘ I’m not going to write a totaly new blog on this subject, instead I will give you a few nice links and give all credits to Tomas Ten Dam,…
Faulty HP ESXi 3.5 USBs
At the same client site where we had the problems with VMware Update Manager and ESXi we are now struggling with HA. We can NOT get it to work and even WMware support can NOT get it to work either. We have been on the…
New KB articles published for week ending 11/16/2008
In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com
Storage Expo
Today we attended the Storage Expo in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Basically there was very little news but it was nice to see some nice features live in action and get some hands-on experience. We visited Dell EqualLogic, HP, Lefthand, EMC, etc and…