Challenge: vCenter, EVC and Distributed Virtual switches.
Yesterday a colleague asked me to add four blades from our old test environment to our new VMware vSphere 4.1 test environment. Of course this was no problem (yet), I had an hour or two to spare, so I started immediately. Download the ESXi 4.1…
Support Alert: Issue with IBM hardware running ESX/ESXi 4.1 (update)
A few minutes ago On November 12th VMware issued a Support Alert regarding an issue that affects users with IBM hardware, running ESX/ESXi 4.1. The symptoms are mentioned below. When using IBM x3650 M3 or BladeCenter HS22V servers, you may experience these symptoms: HBAs stop…
VMworld 2010 – The New Zimbra
I’ve written about Zimbra before. Actually, we here at vmguru.nl use Zimbra for all our email and collaboration. So, today we were invited to join the Zimbra Breakfast Meeting at the Scandic Hotel in Copenhagen. Zimbra, for the ones who don’t know…
t minus 20 days
We are finally going to VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen! No thanks to our employer but many many thanks to Richard Garsthagen who provides us blogger invitations. So we are counting down the days as we are very exited to attend VMworld again this year. I’m…
How to: Upgrade to VMware View 4.5
With the release of VMware View 4.5 comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation to this new version. The upgrade is not that difficult but because I promised you all a ‘How to upgrade to VMware View 4.5‘ I will provide this service anyway….
VMware vSphere 4.1 and View 4.5 launch news
Last Thursday we attended the VMware vSphere 4.1, vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 launch event at Amerongen (NL). We already brought you all news regarding vSphere and vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 but we heard some interesting thing we would like to share with you….
Download VMware View 4.5 now
After the announcement of VMware View 4.5 at VMworld 2010, VMware released the new version of View yesterday. If you are interested in the new features and improvements see our previous post. If you want download an evaluation of the VMware View 4 .5 visit…
VMworld 2010 update
This week VMworld 2010 is held but unfortunately VMGuru.nl is not there to bring you the latest news from San Fransisco. But of course we scan the Internet, follow twitter and have close contact with VMware personnel on-site. First of all, if you can…
VMware View 4.5 announced
Today, at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, VMware announced the launch of VMware View 4.5. VMware View 4.5 is packed with loads of new features which increases VMware View use cases and definitively narrows the gap with Citrix XenDesktop. In fact, Chris Wolf from Gartner…
Exchange CCR cluster on VMware with iSCSI
A few weeks ago I got an assignment to review a colleague’s infrastructure design based on VMware. The design was fine (because they used my design document as template :-) ) but one thing triggered me. There was a special port group on one of…
New Enterprise Hypervisor comparison
Last year we published an Enterprise Hypervisor comparison and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. During the last few weeks I received many update requests so I decided to update the old hypervisor comparison but this time I changed the setup…
How to: Optimize guests for VMware View
We’ ve been doing quite a few VMware View POC’s and the question that colleagues keep asking me is: ‘How do I optimize my Windows guest OS for use with VMware View?’. First of all, I primarily use x86 versions of Windows XP and 7….
Bad network performance on new ESX host
At a client site we came upon a problem with Windows 2003 VM’s. They would get low network performance when we moved them to a newly formed ESX cluster consisting of HP 460c G6 blades. In some cases logging on to the server with a…
How to: Upgrade to vSphere 4.1
With yesterdays release of vSphere 4.1 comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation to this new version. Because I have been testing the beta for a while now, I couldn´t wait to try it in our new testing environment. However, there are a…
VMware vSphere 4.1 released
A few minutes ago VMware has released the new version of VMware vSphere, version 4.1. This new vSphere version contains 150 new features and has improved scalability, memory management, DRS, etc. Besides all the new features the greatest news is that vSphere 4.1…