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 ReadingVMware Desktop RAWC 1.2 provides support for 64-bit Windows 7 on target desktop VMs, so your desktop VMs can now run Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit), or Windows XP with SP2 or SP3. For more information check earlier other post on RAWC. VMware Desktop RAWC 1.2 provides support for 64-bit Windows 7 on …
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 View & ThinApp Presented by David Davis covers the following topics: View Overview and introduction Installing VMware View 4 Deploying Virtual Desktops with View Automated Virtual Desktop Deployment with View Pools Adding a Terminal Services Pool in View Understanding View Composer Linked …
Continue ReadingWhen you install VMware ESX 4 by using the default installation method from for example the DVD, the NIC speed and duplex setting are set to fixed for each NIC. This means that the network switch port must be set to fixed too. In VMware ESX 3 the default NIC mode was Auto Negotiate In the vCenter …
Continue ReadingThere are different ways to patch your VMware ESX(i) 4 hosts. The most common utilities are VMware Update Manager (VUM), vSphere Host Update Utility and the esxupdate command line utility (run from the Service Console) to patch your VMware environment. Here’s explained the differences between them. …
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