The cloud is a mystery? Visit VMworld 2014 or tune in on VMGuru! (video)
The cloud is a mystery to you? We will solve that, just tune in on VMGuru during VMworld 2014 and we will bring you the latest news. VMGuru will attend VMworld US from August 24-28 and VMworld Europe from October 13-16. If there is news…
VMware Fling – VMware I/O Analyzer
VMware released a new version of their VMware I/O Analyzer Fling. VMware I/O Analyzer is an integrated framework designed to measure storage performance in a virtual environment and to help diagnose storage performance concerns. I/O Analyzer, supplied as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance, automates storage performance…
VMware Fling – ViewDbChk tool
VMware released a new VMware Fling, the ViewDbChk tool. The ViewDbChk tool allows administrators to scan for, and fix provisioning errors that can not be addressed using View Administrator. Provisioning errors occur when there are inconsistencies between the LDAP, vCenter and View Composer databases. These…
VMware Fling – VMware OS Optimization Tool
The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps optimize Windows 7/8/2008/2012 systems for use with VMware Horizon View. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. Since most Windows system services…
Sign up for the vSphere Beta now, It’s public!
Do you want to try the newest and latest in VMware technology? You want to play with cutting edge technology? Sign up for the vSphere 6 Public BETA! Join VMware’s newest vSphere Beta Program to help define the direction of the world’s most complete, trusted,…
VMware Fling – Wavemaker Integration for vCenter Orchestrator
VMware Labs has released a great new fling which provides Integration for vCenter Orchestrator. Now you can easily run vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflows from within Wavemaker web applications. It covers much of the Workflow Presentation dialogs available in vCO, with Java services exposing the main…
Network connection lost after vCSA restore
Today we encountered a strange error after restoring a vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) in our vCloud Director environment. You would expect that a restore of a virtual machine would return it to its original state at the time of the back-up. As it turns out…
VMware announces VMware Horizon 6
“VMware to the power of 6” That’s how, a few minutes ago, VMware announced VMware Horizon 6, the next step in VMware VDI solutions. It is an integrated solution that delivers published applications and desktops on a single platform. Horizon 6 is a complete desktop…
VMware vExpert 2014 !
VMGuru is very proud to announce that for the sixth year in a row, we can proudly put the VMware vExpert logo on our site. Alex, Edwin and myself have been awarded the vExpert award 2014 for our contributions to the VMware virtualization community. This is…
How to delete an orphaned desktop pool
Time for a new problem in the VMware Horizon View series. After running into problems which forced me to ‘Manually delete protected Horizon View replicas‘ and ‘Link a VMware View desktop to its replica‘, now I encountered an orphaned desktop pool which could not be…
No internet connection results in slow vSphere client consoles
In the last few weeks a customer that I am working for has been making a lot of changes within their infrastructure. Some big and some (on the surface) small. Somewhere during those weeks a change was made and the consequence of that change has…
Building a new ESXi whitebox
Unfortunately the whitebox ESXi server I build in June 2011 died on me when testing a Nvidia Quadro K5000 graphics card. So I needed a new ESXi server for my home lab. I looked at some HP and Dell mini servers but I decided to…
Windows applications on Chromebook with BLAST
In September 2011 VMware gave us a sneak peek at Project AppBlast and with VMware Horizon View we can use AppBlast technology to access desktops using a HTML5 compatible browse. But as of today we can experience the true power of AppBlast. Today VMware and…
VMware acquires AirWatch
VMware and AirWatch just announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which VMware will acquire AirWatch. Airwatch is a leading provider of enterprise mobile management and security solutions. VMware will acquire AirWatch for approximately $1.175B in cash and approximately $365M of installment payments…
VMware Fling – Real-time audio/video test
VMware Labs has released a great new fling, an application with which you can verify and test the real-time audio/video performance. The application includes a player that displays the ‘virtual webcam’ feed, and also loops back the audio if required. This allows for testing without a…