Want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales force? (Updated)
If you want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales Force now seems the time again! Back in Juli 2009 I had the first collisions with the Oracle Sales force about licensing Oracle on top of VMware environments. Instead of trying to help…
How to license Microsoft Windows 7 for VMware View deployments
I often get questions about Licensing Windows 7 in a VMware View deployment. I will try to elaborate what is needed in general and for specific scenarios. By understanding how they apply to common VMware View scenarios you can calculate and try to get the…
VMware ready for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Yesterday VMware announced that it is ready to deliver the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud Datacenter services. For now this is only available from BlueLock and Colt and through beta services from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free…
vSphere Licensing and Options Overview
Last week we got a question concerning the licensing options around vSphere and how to choose the correct edition and options from all the flavors and options offered by VMware. So while answering the questions concerning the licensing I thought back to a nice overview…
Virtualize your remote offices using VMware Essentials RoBo
Some of you might already have been there. I know I have: You have a large organization with more than 10 remote or branch offices. You have virtualized your entire back-end but those nasty site servers still remain a physical nuisance. Some regional offices have…
The VMware Infrastructure 3 Support Life Cycle
If you haven’t upgraded to VMware vSphere 4 by now, you should consider it and rethink your strategy. VMware has removed all but the most recent versions of their Virtual Infrastructure product binaries from their download page on June 17th. As of May 2010, the…
Hyper-V R2 vs vSphere: A feature comparison
At the end of May of this year we wrote a article concerning Hypervisor comparisons and we got a lot of positive feedback on it. The downside to that is that people want an update as soon as one of the companies launches a new…
Virtual Infrastructure best practices
[Updated: 8-11-2009 10:00] Lately I keep receiving questions from colleagues regarding virtual infrastructure design using VMware products. So I decided to sum up the best practices I use when designing a new virtual infrastructure. Some of the best practices are based on numbers and calculations…
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….
Enterprise Hypervisor comparison
The last few weeks many blogs and forums have spend time on hypervisor comparisons and I have read tons of articles on the subject. Many only compare hypervisors based on performance, features or cost. I think it’s a bit more complicated then that. After Citrix…
Virtualisation: it isn’t an app, it’s an infrastructure
Now most of our loyal followers know, I usually do not post any content on this blog other than things related to the hosting of website. It’s my “job” to keep this part of the infrastructure running (well, that’s not quite how it is, but…
Software Vendors with Support Policies for Customers Running in VMware Environments
I get more and more the question does vendor x with application y support their software running in a VMware environment. There are several questions to ask: Can the application be virtualized? or in other words does the application run without problems in a VMware…