Jan
31
2009

New Website logo

Hello Folks!

Alex Brown was so kind to provide us with a kick-ass new image we could use as our logo.

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TAZZ fiddled it into the website already and I will try to fix the favourite icon later this weekend. We hope you like the new logo, we most certainly do!

Cheers,

Froos

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Written by Alex Muetstege in: Website Maintenance |Other posts by Alex Muetstege|
Jan
30
2009

vCenter physical or virtual? (part 2)

Matthijs Haverink from VirtualFuture.info posted a great article on the ever returning vCenter physical/virtual discussion as Anne Jan has posted on recently.

In his article he describes 4 critical decisions which have to be made:
1. vCenter: physical or virtual
2. SQL database: locally or detached
3. Redundancy options: make it redundant and if so; how?
4. License server: locally or detached

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Written by Erik Scholten in: VMware, vCenter/VirtualCenter |Other posts by Erik Scholten| Tags: ,
Jan
30
2009

VMWorld input wanted!

As you may have noticed, the VMGuru crew will attend VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes at the end of Februari and we recieved a special bloggers invitation. This invitation gives us access to special bloggers seat, the bloggers lounge and an video/interview room. Here we can interview VMware employees and staff.

So here’s our proposal: Do you have any (non technical) questions for VMware?  Do you want us to get answers directly from VMware? Send us you questions and preferably the person we should ask it and we will try to get your answers at VMworld Europe 2009.

Send your question, with a good description, to  meagain@vmguru.nl or tazz@vmguru.nl. The answers will be published on www.VMGuru.nl.

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Written by Erik Scholten in: Life, VMware |Other posts by Erik Scholten| Tags: ,
Jan
29
2009

Guest customization in VirtualCenter 2.5 fails

One of our clients wanted to start using the deployment of virtual machines with the customization wizard in VirtualCenter. For a strange reason this didn’t work. Probably the time of day wasn’t right for me, because I totally forgot the article about the customization problem.

If you change the path for the TEMP and TMP variables to store tempfiles on another location the customization fails. It looks like the process can’t copy the files to the desired location.

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005943

I know, it’s an old kb article, but perhaps it can save you time (and stupid looks from your collegues ;) )

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: VMware, vCenter/VirtualCenter |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags: , ,
Jan
27
2009

High throughput iSCSI with VMware: a multi-vendor post

One of the feeds in my RSS reader is the VMware feed. One of the posts that caught my attention was the ‘High Throughput iSCSI with VMware’

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: VMware, vStorage VMFS/Storage |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags: ,
Jan
27
2009

Do you Poken?

pokenusbIt looks like this is going to be THE new thing this year. Almost every has a Facebook account, LinkedIn network or some other form of social network online.

Business cards are oldskool these days. In the new, virtual, cloud connected era you have gotta have something electronic to link your reallife friends and business partners to your online networks.

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: VMware |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga|
Jan
26
2009

VMware Knowledge Base Update

In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com

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Written by Sid in: Knowledgebase, VMware |Other posts by Sid|
Jan
26
2009

T minus 4 weeks

cannes2008_2 It’s almost a month before the start of VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes.

We are counting down the days as we are very exited to attend this great event again.

If you are not sure if you want to attend VMWorld check out these photos, maybe those will convince you to come.

Check out www.VMGuru.nl from Feb 22-27 for ‘live’ reports from THE European virtualization event!

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Written by Erik Scholten in: VMware |Other posts by Erik Scholten| Tags: ,
Jan
22
2009

VMworld Europe 2009 Speaker & Session Catalog

Yesterday VMware published the speaker and sessions catalog for VMworld Europe 2009 which will take place Febr 24-26 in Cannes, France.

Pre-registration for sessions is not available. Additional sessions and details from various presenters and speakers will be added between now and the conference, so please check back for new information.

For people who have a VMworld login, the speaker and session catalog can be found here.
For those of you who don’t have a VMworld login (yet), the static speakers & sessions catalog can be found below. (more…)

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Jan
22
2009

VMGuru.nl will be there!!

cannes2008Today we finally received conformation of our special bloggers invite.

This invite gives us access to the press lounge, video recording room and special bloggers seats at the sessions.

This is not only great news for us but also good news for you, our VMGuru audience because this means we can give you    front row seats while we report live from VMworld Europe 2009 from Monday Feb 23 (Partner day) until Thursday Feb 26. So  check out VMGuru.nl during this period to get the latest news on the virtualization marketplace.

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Jan
21
2009

VI:OPS

Everybody has his or her own opinion. And that’s a good thing …. most of the time. And everybody wants to solve problems or create solutions in their own way. Since we all have our own opinion and we all have a different view of the world around us, we all create different solutions for the same problem. And again, this is a good thing, most of the time.

But every now and then you have to solve a problem in too little time and you ask yourself: ‘Isn’t there anybody that already solved this problem?‘ The answer is almost always: Yes, somebody already solved it.

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: VMware |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags: , ,
Jan
20
2009

More PowerShell stuff

Last year I started to write a small program in Perl to document the virtual infrastructures we encounter at client locations.
But since it’s all PowerShell it was time to start to write the same thing in PowerShell.

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: PowerShell, VMware |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags:
Jan
19
2009

Deploying Exchange 2007 server on VMware infrastructure

VMware is working hard on the view people have on virtualization. The recently made the following article available, wich covers the deployment of Exchange 2007 on a VMware infrastructure.

VMware starts the article with the description of an “old” Exchange 2003 enviroment. From that point they take you through the necessary planning and consideration steps needed to get that “old” enviroment into a new Exchange 2007 with VMware infrastructure.

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Written by Sander Martijn in: VMware |Other posts by Sander Martijn|
Jan
19
2009

New articles published for week ending 1/18/2009

In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com

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Written by Sid in: Knowledgebase, VMware |Other posts by Sid|
Jan
15
2009

vCenter security tips

Jason Boche posted a very good article on security of vCenter.I could try and explain it to you, but I think you’d be better of visiting the original article from Jason.

He explains it by comparing it to NTFS security for Windows administrators. Link to his article

Chapeau!

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: VMware, vCenter/VirtualCenter |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags: ,
Jan
14
2009

Browsing through your VC database like a drive

Yesterday I was browsing through the PowerShell scripts posted in the VI Toolkit community on the VMware site.

One of the scripts I immediately liked was the “Create a PSDrive to browse your inventory” script. With this script you can browse through your vCenter database like it was a drive.

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: VMware |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga|
Jan
13
2009

Managing VMware with PowerShell FAQ

If you’re interested in automating your virtual environment you should check out this link. It containts a list of frequently asked questions about PowerShell combined with VMware.

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-4210

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: PowerShell, VMware |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags: ,
Jan
12
2009

T minus 6 weeks

It’s one and a half month before the first day of VMWorld Europe 2009 in Cannes. Last year it was a great succes so as soon as registration opened I registered as soon as possible.

I’m looking forward to Feb 22 as we fly to Cannes the day before the Partner Day. Hopefully we managed to arrange the blogger-seats Richard Garsthagen offered us so we can bring you all the news from Cannes as it is presented to us.

To get in the mood here’s a video of the highlights of VMWorld Europe 2008.

Check out www.VMGuru.nl from Feb 22-27 for ‘live’ reports from THE European virtualization event!

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Written by Erik Scholten in: VMware |Other posts by Erik Scholten| Tags: ,
Jan
12
2009

New KB Articles published for week ending 1/11/2009

In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com

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Written by Sid in: Knowledgebase, VMware |Other posts by Sid|
Jan
11
2009

VMWorld Europe 2009 preview

Today I recieved the following e-mail from Richard Garsthagen, organiser of VMWorld Europe 2009, and I didn’t want to keep this from you.

In 7 weeks time the 2nd VMworld in Europe will be opening its doors!

[...]

This year we will offer even more hands-on labs at the event, where
you can get your hands on the latest technologies. To create even more
capacity all the labs will be self-paced, so you can come when ever
you like and how often you like! We will provide terminals where you
can sit down and work through these labs, but we will also allow you
to connect with your own laptop. When you bring your own laptop there
is even less chance of waiting in line. (Do make sure you run windows
on your laptop, we will provide the VDI environment to connect.

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Written by Erik Scholten in: VMware, vCenter Site Recovery Manager/High Availability |Other posts by Erik Scholten|
Jan
09
2009

vCenter physical or virtual?

Still a lot of people hesitate to make vCenter (was VirtualCenter) virtual. They have a lot of reasons for that.

Let me sum up the most common reasons people mention when they don’t want to virtualize vCenter. After that I will (try to) explain why you should virtualize vCenter in my opinion.

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: Hardware, VMware, vCenter/VirtualCenter |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags: ,
Jan
08
2009

New VMware products in 2009

Yesterday I was browsing the VMware site when I stumbled upon a product announcement for new product in 2009. These new products include:

  • VMware Fault Tolerance
  • VMware VMSafe
  • VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch
  • VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
  • VMware vCenter Data Recovery
  • VMware vCenter ConfigControl
  • VMware vCenter Orchestrator
  • VMware vCenter Chargeback
  • VMware vCenter AppSpeed

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Jan
07
2009

Visio Stencil for VMware Host & Cluster descriptions

VMguru Host & Datacenter

After drawing another Host & Cluster configuration manually 

for a Technical Design I decided, enough is enough, lets automate this.

So a new visio stencil is born, nothing fancy but it does the job and you

can quickly draw a Host & Clusters configuration.  For example see the

picture on the right side.

 

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Written by Edwin Weijdema in: VMware |Other posts by Edwin Weijdema| Tags: , ,
Jan
07
2009

Code pages added

New year, new items. As of today VMGuru.nl added a new section called ‘Code pages‘. Here you can find code samples/scripts of topics on our blog, so you don’t need to search the entire site. When you have a usefull, clever or ‘need to share’ script or you have added some nice features to one of ‘our’ scripts, please contact us.

Enjoy!

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Written by Erik Scholten in: VMware |Other posts by Erik Scholten| Tags:
Jan
06
2009

Searching for a VM

One of the problems that most people have with virtualizing vCenter is that they don’t know where the vCenter VM is when there are problems.

There’s a fairly easy way to counter this problem.

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Written by Anne Jan Elsinga in: PowerShell, vCenter/VirtualCenter |Other posts by Anne Jan Elsinga| Tags: , ,

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