Review: Thecus N4520 – Part 1
Last year Edwin did a review of the Thecus TopTower N8850, a beautiful enterprise grade NAS with a lot of features. So when the friendly people at Thecus send us the Thecus N4520 to review it was my turn. Thecus positions the N4520 as “the…
VMworld 2013 USA – Keynote day 2
Day 2 kicks off with a keynote by Carl Eschenbach, who is the EVP of VMware. Traditionally, the keynote of day 2 is the technical presentation and demo of the new products. This is my fourth VMworld and I only know the very dynamic presentations…
VMware Labs does it again, ProactiveDRS
Just when you think it cannot get any better VMware comes up with an interesting new fling, Proactive DRS. Proactive DRS was the winning entry in last year’s 2012 Open Innovation Contest. VMware promised to create a Fling of the winning entry, and here it…
VMworld 2013 USA – Day 1 – Pictures and slides
Yesterday the show really kicked off! A lot of sessions, some small news is still pretty big, like the coming support voor XenApp published apps in Horizon. Check out the slides at the end of the slideshow. [fancygallery id=”3″ album=”23″]
What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5
In today’s VMworld keynote VMware announced general availability of VMware vSphere 5.5 which introduces many new features and enhancements that further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. VMware vSphere 5.5 includes the following core vSphere ESXi Hypervisor enhancements: Hot-pluggable SSDPCIe devices Solid-state disks (SSDs) are…
VMworld 2013 USA – Day 0 – An impression
Yesterday VMworld kicked off with the partner day. Not all facilities are open yet and not all attendees are there yet, but it’s nice and busy. Check out the pictures: [fancygallery id=”3″ album=”23″]
Cost analysis: VMware Horizon View vs Citrix XenDesktop
When I’m advising customers on desktop solutions it’s an obvious battle between VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Customers are becoming more and more cost aware due to the economic circumstances but the demand for audio/video and real time communication is growing. When Server Based Computing (SBC)…
VMware OS Optimization Tool
In May 2013 Sander wrote two great articles (post 1, post 2) on optimization of desktop operating systems for use in a VDI environment. Today I ran into a new VMware fling, a VMware OS optimization tool. The VMware OS Optimization Tool allows you to…
VMware continues to lead
The virtualization landscape is evolving. Nowadays two-thirds of x86 server workloads are virtualized, the market is mature and competitive and enterprises are evaluating the cost-benefits of switching technologies more than ever. For years and years VMware has been the clear market leader but Microsoft and…
How to: Shutdown ESXi host in case of a power failure
When running a virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere, you have multiple techniques to create a high available environment. You can create a cluster, use VMware HA or FT but when the power fails you’re done. To buy us a little bit of time, you…
What’s the impact of Microsoft Office on VDI?
I regularly get questions from customers what the impact is of the Microsoft Office version on their VDI deployment. It’s a common misunderstanding that the sizing and performance of a VDI deployment is equal when using Microsoft office 2007, 2010 or 2013. But until now…
Horizon View in a stretched cluster environment: Can I have that? No!
Ever since VMware started selling View as a desktop solution, we’ve had these discussions with colleagues and customers. You probably are familiar with the topic: Many companies have more than one location, but they all want to manage their IT infrastructure as if it was…
VMware View with FlexPod deployment guide
As a Cisco/NetApp FlexPod Partner we deploy a lot of FlexPods with all kinds of workloads. One of the more populair applications of aFlexPod is a VMware View environment. One of the tools to execute a valid and correctly configured FlexPod is a CVD, a…
VMware Technical Journal – Summer 2013
Today VMware Technical Journal (VMTJ) is celebrating its first birthday! VMTJ is a VMware Labs journal with in depth technical information which is published twice per year. Today VMware Labs published a new version of the the 2013 Summer edition of the VMware Technical Journal….
VMware vExpert 2013 !
VMGuru.nl is very proud to announce that for the fifth year in a row, we can proudly put the VMware vExpert logo on our site. Alex, Edwin and myself have been given the vExpert award 2013 for our contributions to the VMware virtualization community. This is…