Today 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 …
Continue ReadingAfter attending the VMware View 4 Talkshoe podcast the following information about the announced VMware View 4 was discussed: VM’s per core: VM’s per core, In VMware View 3 the number was 6-9 VM’s per core, now in View 4 with for example the Intel Nehalem processors you can get to 12-16 VM’s per …
Continue ReadingToday VMware has View 4 announced. VMware View 4 is supported on VMware vSphere and has a new protocol named PCoIP (View 3 uses RDP). Here’s a list of new and/or improved features: FEATURE NEW/IMPROVED DESCRIPTION Quad monitor …
Continue ReadingOn 11 December 2009 the 5th Dutch VMUG event will be held. It is a technical one day event about virtualization. Last year there were more than 600 visitors. Here’s a list in my opinion of must see presentations: Managing VMware vSphere 4 m.b.v. de Virtualization EcoShell by Eric Sloof - VMUG / …
Continue ReadingI ‘am testing an unattended installation of VMware ESXi from an USB drive. After every change, I needed to test if the unattended still worked. I tried to use VMware workstation to test the unattended installation. VMware Workstation doesn’t support boot from USB. There is an unofficial solution to …
Continue ReadingYesterday i did the VCP4 exam and passed with a score of 475. The exam has 85 questions and for a non English speaker you get 90 minutes to complete the exam. The passing score is 300 out of 500. The exam has 90 multiple choice/selects questions. The exam is harder than the VCP3 exam, but with …
Continue ReadingThere are four possible paths to achieve VCP4 certifiaction: If you are NEW to VMware Attend the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course OR attend the VMware vSphere 4: Fast Track (available in Q4) Take and pass the VCP4 exam If you are currently a VCP3 Take and pass the VCP4 exam. This …
Continue ReadingThe last three days i attended Microsoft TechDays in Antwerpen (Belgium). The first day (pre-conference) was dedicated to Windows 2008 R2. The other 2 days I attended sessions such as Windows 7, Powershell V2, SYSVOL replication and Remote Desktop Services (former Terminal Services). Here is an …
Continue ReadingI to VMworld Europe with two colleagues from our company Ictivity, we fly on tomorrow (Monday) from Rotterdam (The Netherlands) at 10.50. I have made a personal list with the session (and meetings/parties) who got my interest. There are lot interesting hands-on labs but the are not on the session …
Continue ReadingHere a new PowerShell report-event script. figure 1. Output reports-event script You can specify multiple servers in a text file, select how many hours from the current time to look in the eventlog and e-mail the HTML file after generation. The following syntax can be used: get-content …
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