VMware VCP410 second shot
Today VMware Education Services announced that they will allow a second shot for those who have failed their first attempt at the VCP 410 exam. This second shot is free but you will have to register before you attend your first exam. It is a…
VMware launches View 4.0 beta
As a real VMware View enthusiast I’m really anxious to work with the new VMware View 4 with PCoIP. Just like vCenter Site Recovery Manager, were the new version was released last week, VMware View has to be adjusted to support VMware vSphere 4. The…
VMware View Open Client 4.0 beta
During the last months it has become very clear that the fight in the VDI space is on. Citrix and VMware have released new and better versions of their product and Microsoft stumbles behind with their MED-V ‘solution’. Last February, around VMworld Europe 2009, VMware…
SRM 4.0 released
Back in April we we’re the first to report the limited management and automation support in vSphere, but now VMware has released version 4.0 of vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Besides that vCenter Site Recovery Manager can now be used with VMware’s vSphere 4 it has…
Oracle application support on VMware
According to buzz in the blogosphere, last July VMware COO Tod Nielsen met with Charles Phillips President of Oracle with regards to the ongoing support issues/questions customers experience when using VMware virtualization technology. Tod Nielsen providing Oracle with a list of over 500 VMware customers…
Project VRC: Clock drift and test results
Project Virtual Reality Check finally posted a new document about previous results and possible clock drift when using the “Login Virtual Session Indexer (VSI)”. Previous test setups and results didn’t take into account how different hypervisors handle passing time. In my opinion this is a…
The first security products for VMSafe have arrived
This week I attend the launch party from Trend Micro. They presented their latest products which are fully virtualization aware. First they introduced the new way of defending viruses and malware. Because nowadays the viruses and malware changes signatures so quickly the signatures database grows…
Vizioncore vProduct range
This morning we had a meeting with Vizioncore/Quest. Danny Claproth and Jan-Willem Koppers informed us on their complete range of vProducts. Vizioncore offers a wide range of products which add additional features or deliver VMware-like features. I’ve not had very much time to test their…
The road to VCP 4 certification
After becoming a VCP4 I regularly get questions from my colleagues on how to become a VCP4. Can I take the VCP410 exam without further training? I attended the VI3, Install & configure course but didn’t take the exam yet. Can I take the VCP…
CDG Technical update
Yesterday, the three of us attended one of the quarterly CDG(1) Technical update sessions which was held at ‘de Glazen Ruimte‘ in Maarssen. The three subject were: RES Software and VMware View by Bart van Winden (RES) en Ton Hermes (VMware); Citrix reduces traffic jams…
The VMworld 2009 Lab Cloud
Yesterday we showed you how VMware designed and build an awesome infrastructure just for one week of VMworld 2009. Awesome figures! 776 ESX servers, 37TB RAM, 6.208 cores, 348TB storage and 37.248 virtual machines. But what is this infrastructure used for? Well VMware primarily uses…
Long distance VMotion
Just as Microsoft is proud to present users with live migration in Hyper-V 2.0, VMware announces that it supports long distance VMotion up to 200 Kilometers. As a VMware Premier Partner we already heard this was coming but we never realized it would be available…
VMware View software PCoIP demo
VMware announced their effort to produce a software implementation of PCoIP together with Terradici at VMworld 2009 in Cannes. Since then I have been anxiously waiting for a demo or beta. During today’s keynote at VMworld 2009 VMware gave a demo of their long awaited…
VMware launches vCloud Express
Today in his keynote speech Paul Maritz announced vCloud Express. vCloud Express is an Infrastructure as a Service offering which is delivered by the leading VMware service provider partners like Logica, BlueLock, MelbourneIT and Terremark. It provides reliable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure that ensures compatibility with…
VMware View: Design Best Practices course
Last weekend VMware launched a new course called ‘VMware View: Design Best Practices’. It’s a hands-on training course which explores the foundations of designing VMware View architectures and is meant for System architects, system administrators, IT managers, and individuals responsible for designing VMware View architectures….