VMware to cut prices by 10% next Monday
The talk of the town is that VMware is going to reduce their prices with 10% by next Monday, November 3rd. This news comes from MicroScope. As the articles correctly states this move counter the previous 10% price increase that VMware introduced September 1st, generating…
VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant 1.0
This week VMware released VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant 1.0 (VIMA). VIMA is a free virtual machine on which VMware administrators can execute scripts and install agents that they would normally try to run on the console operating system (COS) like UPS agents, etc. The VMware…
Cisco and VMware networking
Looking for information about iSCSI, Cisco and VMware I stumbled onto a document which I want to share with all of you. Want to know about vswitches, portgroups, security, ether channels, scalability, security, performance, VLAN tagging, N-port ID virtualization, iSCSI implementations? In ‘VMware Infrastructure 3…
Virtualization is to blame
Virtualization is hot! A lot of companies are already virtualized or in the middle of a migration. The physical platform gets replaced by a virtual one. This directly introduces a new whipping boy. In the past users and administrators looked at stuff that could cause…
What if life was a virtual machine..
I spend a lot of hours in traffic jams lately. It’s really driving me nuts. All those break lights, slow moving cars.. Man, your mind starts to wonder.. ‘What if life was a virtual machine’? Life sure would get easier I think. Just look at…
VC Upgrade went haywire
Yesterday was a fun day. What looked like a simple, clean upgrade became something more interesting. After making a before snapshot I started the VirtualCenter installation wizard. Then the fun started. Nothing happened. Let me rephrase that. NOTHING happened. Machine hung. Clicking the reboot button…
Presentations ‘LIVE’ from VMworld 2008
October 13th I met Eric Sloof, the man behind NTPRO.NL, at the VMware Partner Forum 2008 in Brasschaat. He was busy filming various presentations. Today I visited Erik’s site and discovered his video collection. If you are interested in the ‘live’ presentations of VMWorld 2008…
New ESXi4 feature – Fault tolerance
For all who have not seen ESXi4 beta or presentations at VMWorld 2008, VMware announced a new feature called Fault Tollerance (FT). A system with two virtual machines in an active/passive configuration. All instructions that are executed on the active virtual machine are copied over…
Technical challenges
Sorry, my bad! But I cleaned up my own mess….. Grtx, TAZZ Hello folks, Our brand new site is going like crazy. Unfortunately some “not to be named” human element in our infrastructure caused a minor glitch in the website’s config. Therefore subpages may not…
VMware ESX vs Microsoft Hyper-V
On Gabes Virtual World I read an article with the title ‘Unbelievable Hyper-V performance ‘. At first I was a bit shocked by the title. Hyper-V good performance? That the complete opposite to my own experience with Microsofts virtualization attempt. But luckily what Gabe ment…
New VAC Manager for Benelux
I just recieved an e-mail presenting Hervé Clement as the new VMware VAC Manager for the Benelux. […] “This is with great pleasure that I’m joining today the VAC Benelux communauty as the Manager of the VAC Program for Benelux. I’ve been working with VMware…
VMware High Availabilty explained
With the release of VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 U3 VMware implemented a few interesting changes in it’s Availability implementation. In this document VMware HA and the latest changes are described in detail. This document is intended for experienced HA cluster admins who are…
VMware introduces Virtual Desktop Manager 3
Let’s give a big hand to VMware for revealing some details for Virtual Desktop Manager 3 on VMworld 2008. Now we can finally talk about it without violating our NDA. Offline VDI Scalable Virtual Images Universal client
Cloud vServices and Virtual DataCenter OS
On VMWorld 2008 in Vegas VMware announced it’s new vCloud- and Virtual DataCenter OS (VDC-OS) initiative. VMware vCloud offers any customer elastic, on-demand compute capacity for their applications, on or off premise. Virtual DataCenter OS is VMware’s new approach to expand its flagship ‘VMware Infrastructure‘…
No guest customization after upgrade to Update 2
This problem exists since the release of Update 2 but I still get a lot of questions from collegues who run into this. After you upgrade your VirtuaCenter version 2.5 Update 2 guest customization stops working. When deploying virtual machines from a template sysprep does…