Cloud Automation Services in action
On March 21 I presented at the Dutch VMUG. If you don’t know the Dutch VMUG, it’s the biggest VMware User Group event in the world and this year there were about 900 attendees. I had two sessions on VMware Cloud Automation Services (CAS), a…
Join us at Dutch VMUG UserCon 2016!
There are times when I’m especially proud to be Dutch. Last year, the Dutch VMUG UserCon was the largest VMUG gettogether in the world. Almost 1.000 particpants gathered in the venue in Den Bosch to exchange knowledge, listen to sessions, network and enjoy a drink….
Dutch VMUG Roundup
Last thursday, 19 March 2015, the dutch VMUG boys organized the VMUG Usercon again. Venue was the 1931 conference center in Den Bosch. This year the total amount of participants went through the roof. The all-time-record for a VMUG conference was not broken, but with…
For the Dutchies: 19 March, Dutch VMUG Event – Mark your calendar!
It has been a long standing tradition: The dutch VMUG event. Last year in March the event was held in Den Bosch for the first time in a new format. And as we dutchies are fanatical lovers of virtualization in almost any form, this year…
Great VMUG Belgium event
Last Friday Alex and I were invited to speak at the Belgium VMUG. Erik Schils, the Belgian VMUG leader, had setup a VMUG conference at Cisco in Diegem. After a 3 hour drive to Belgium, the conference turned out to be pretty busy, Erik managed…
VMGuru.nl at VMUG.Be – The Blogger Edition: Register now!
The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is…
VMGuru.nl interview at VKernelTV
December 9th was the day of the annual dutch VMUG event in Nieuwegein (NL). It was a great day with many interesting sessions, labs, great people to meet and of course the MonsterVM. During the day Edwin and I had the chance to talk to…
Dutch VMUG: PowerCLI is for administrators!
Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf did a great presentation on PowerCLI. PowerCLI is based on PowerShell. PowerShell is designed by Microsoft with the SysAdmin in mind. It’s the universal language for Windows data centers. Most of the time GUI interfaces are single purpose and rigid….
Dutch VMUG: VMware HA and DRS – Q&A
Duncan Epping, Consulting Architect, Cloud Practice Frank Denneman, Consulting Architect, PSO Duncan and Frank are the authors of the VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deep dive. It is available from Amazon, and from Monday it will also be available at Computer Collectief. You…
Dutch VMUG: vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting
Eric Sloof, instructor and blogger for NTPro.nl, gave a great presentation on advanced troubleshooting on vSphere. Eric shows that you can use esxtop for troubleshooting on almost every level. He said a lot about troubleshooting. Below you’ll find the things I could write down during his…
Dutch VMUG: vCloud Director presentation and demo
Willem van Engeland (VMware) and Duncan Epping (VMware, Yellow Bricks) did a presentation on vCloud Director. Paul Maritz said earlier: Cloud-based infrastructure will become the new hardware”, shifting from running your applications on HP, IBM or Dell hardware to Terremark. With vCloud Director you can create…
Dutch VMUG: Keynote
Today the 6th edition of the Dutch VMUG has started. Viktor van den Berg, Dutch VMUG leader, opened the VMUG around the 9.30 with a couple of facts and figures around the Dutch VMUG: There are more than 50.000 VMUG members in the world The…
Live from the VMUG.
Today is V-day, the day of the annual dutch VMUG and the complete VMGuru.nl will be there to report live from Nieuwegein (NL). So check out VMGuru.nl regularly today to see and hear what happens at the VMUG event. You can also follow us on…
Only two weeks until an impressive dutch VMUG
It’s only two weeks until the annual dutch VMUG with a very impressive speaker line-up. Many international speakers are going to deliver great sessions, workshops and Q/A-sessions at the Nieuwegein Business Center (NBC) on December 10th. If you’re interest and work involves virtualization and you…
The real value of Project VRC
About two weeks ago I attended a session at the VMware User Group meeting here in the Netherlands about Project VRC. After the presentation I asked myself: ‘What is the value of this project?‘. For you who don’t know what Project VRC is: “Project Virtual…
