vSphere 4: 9 months later
May 21th VMware released their new flagship product VMware vSphere 4 which should bring us tons of new features and performance improvements. But how is the vSphere experience almost 9 months later? Starting with the installation and setup experience, my personal experience with vSphere is…
And the winner is ……
January 3rd, Eric Siebert, started the Top 25 VMware/Virtualization bloggers contest. During two weeks everybody in the community could vote for their favorite Top 10 and the challenge was to get VMGuru.nl into the Top 25 and to knock Duncan Epping from the top spot…
VMware to acquire Zimbra
It was a rumor for some time but 45 minutes ago Steve Herrod, CTO of VMware, acknowledged that VMware has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra from Yahoo. First of all, for those of you that don’t know, Zimbra delivers open-source…
Best practices XenApp on vSphere
Based on the real life results when virtualizing XenApp I thought it was about time to summarize some of the best practices for virtualizing XenApp servers. Why we DO want to virtualize XenApp? For server consolidation: vSphere enables scale up XenApp deployments; For mixing server…
VMware Communities Roundtable
Almost every week I listen to the podcast from the Communities Round-table, just to make sure that I didn’t miss anything important. What is this Communities Round-table? Well, who better than John Troyer, Sr Mgr VMware Communities, can explain what it is. Each week,…
VMware licensing management – a proposal for change
A couple of weeks ago I talked to a co-worker who is responsible for selling VMware licenses and other VMware related stuff. As a VMware partner it isn’t always easy to manage the licenses for customers nor selling or upgrading their licenses if they bought…
VMware View sizing & best practices
November 4th we published an article on Virtual Infrastructure best practices and the response was overwhelming. During the last month we received a lot of questions regarding best practices on VDI/VMware View. When I then read a comment from VMware’s evangelist, Richard Garsthagen, that the…
Dutch VMUG video extravaganza
Yesterday was the big day for over 600 VMware enthusiasts in the Netherlands because the fifth Dutch VMUG event took place at the Nieuwegein Business Center. As usual Eric Sloof from NTPro.nl performed his usual video extravaganza which can be viewed at his website. Eric created…
vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop @ DutchVMUG
The last breakout session we attended the XTG vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop, a quick way to get familiar with a new VMware product. The instructor first introduced us to the product and discussed some installation and configuration hints and tips. After that we quickly started…
Dutch VMUG Breakout 2 pictures
Pictures from Breakout session 2 by Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nu) can be found here. Breakouts in sessions 2: – Virtualiseren van Exchange by Jan Willem Lammers – VMware – How to monitor, manage & optimize a virtual environment by Danny Claproth – Vizioncore – Project VRC…
Dutch VMUG Breakout 1 pictures
Pictures from Breakout session 1 by Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nu) can be found here. Breakouts in sessions 1: – VMware’s latest Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by Rory Clements – VMware – Managing VMware vSphere 4 m.b.v. de Virtualization EcoShell by Eric Sloof – NTPro.nl – Why the…
Virtualization EcoShell @Dutch VMUG
For all the folks that didn’t hear about the EcoShell yet: The Virtualization EcoShell makes it possible to create scripts to automate management tasks for your virtual infrastructure, all from a user friendly user interface. These scripts can be saved for later use. This is…
Dutch VMUG Keynote pictures
Keynote pictures by Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nu) can be found here.
Dutch VMUG keynote live blog
Today is the fifth Dutch VMUG event and the interest is overwhelming with 600 attendees. VMGuru.nl attends for the first time this year, helping out with the event build up and attendee registration. The first pictures can be found at the website of Bouke Groenescheij…
Follow the annual Dutch VMUG
Tomorrow is the big day for more than 600 VMware enthusiasts in the Netherlands with the start of the annual dutch VMUG event. Anne Jan, Arjan and I will be attending the VMUG event, you can follow us on VMGuru.nl or follow us using twitter….