The Dutch ICT website Computable _ recently raffled a VMworld 2010 Copenhagen ticket among his followers on Twitter. Last week i was the lucky winner of the free ticket for VMworld Europe 2010. How cool is that! Yesterday i had a interview about my expectations on VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen. The …
Continue ReadingEric Siebert from vSphere-Land has opened the voting for the top 25 virtualization bloggers list. Voting is very easy by clicking on the link provided. It takes only one minute. Choose your 10 favorites blogs and rank them in order of preference. The voting is from 14 September till 24 September …
Continue ReadingThis week a lot of “new” announcements made at the VMworld 2010 conference in San Francisco. Here are some highlights: VMware View 4.5 VMware 4.5 is released. Here are some improvements in version 4.5: Support for VMware vSphere 4.1 Full Windows 7 support Offline support View client for Mac ThinApp …
Continue ReadingDuring a health check of a vSphere environment i notices dropped packets on several VMs. In ESXTOP the %DRPRX value showed dropped receive packets on several VMs. In the screenshot an example: The customer uses vSphere 4.0 build 244038. All the VMs that experiencing the dropped packets problem were …
Continue ReadingThe new vSphere 4.1 release offers a lot of new cool features and enhancements. Here’s a list What’s New in vSphere 4.1. When upgrading to vSphere 4.1 there are a couple of things to think about before starting: Make sure your systems and components are supported, check the Hardware Compatibility …
Continue ReadingVMware HealthAnalyzer automates the collection of VMware Infrastructure or VMware vSphere™ inventory, configuration and utilization data, analyzes data and recommends grades, and generates a report card that presents observations, findings and data categorized by VMware Health Check best practices. …
Continue ReadingVMware released last week the desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC). When validating VMware View designs it is important to simulate real world usage as closely as possible. The Desktop Reference Architecture Workload SImulator (RAWC) can be used to simulate a user workload in a …
Continue ReadingThe vSphere Quick Start guide is released and available from Amazon. This guide is written by 6 virtualization guru’s named: Duncan Epping Alan Renouf Dave Mishchenko Bernie Baker Thomas Bryant Stewart Radnidge The book summary from Amazon: vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide continues from an idea …
Continue ReadingThe long awaited VMware View with the PCoIP protocol has landed and is available for download. VMware View 4.0 includes the following new features: VMware View with PCoIP – PCoIP provides an optimized desktop experience for the delivery of the entire desktop environment including applications, …
Continue ReadingToday when i woke up there where a lot of VMware updates available (to much to handle for one day 🙂 ). I did an upgrade of my lab environment, it went smooth with any issues. VMware did a great job with the new improvements! Here’s a list of improvements with some screenshots: VMware ESX 4 Update 1 …
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