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Supported Business Applications on the VMware Platform

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:13:51 +0000

More and more applications are supported on the VMware Platform, with the release of VMware vSphere 5 the boundaries of virtual machines have been expanded even more. Often we get questions about which applications are supported on the VMware virtual platform. There is a website page where you can search for specific applications and if [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

VMware Next Step in End-User Computing roadshow June 2011

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:41:34 +0000

VMware Next Step in End-User Computing roadshow June 2011 from Ton Hermes, Senior SE VMware on Vimeo. The Future of End-User Computing goes much further than just delivering a vDesktop and vApplications to users. Users today are demanding more and more that functionality is available 24/7, where new functionality can be immediately obtained when needed [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

How to calculate electrical costs for cooling and power consumption

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:59:55 +0000

For putting together a business case costs and revenues are an important part of it. If you want to calculate the direct resource costs associate with hosting a server in your data center, you want to know the direct power consumption by the server in electrical costs and the costs associated with cooling the environment [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

vSphere Licensing and Options Overview

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:35:48 +0000

Last week we got a question concerning the licensing options around vSphere and how to choose the correct edition and options from all the flavors and options offered by VMware. So while answering the questions concerning the licensing I thought back to a nice overview picture we had available a few years back from VMware. [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

The VMware Infrastructure 3 Support Life Cycle

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:59:27 +0000

If you haven’t upgraded to VMware vSphere 4 by now, you should consider it and rethink your strategy. VMware has removed all but the most recent versions of their Virtual Infrastructure product binaries from their download page on June 17th. As of May 2010, the following Virtual infrastructure products have all reached end of general [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Consolidation ratios. Picture vs thousand words…

Erik Scholten — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:59:11 +0000

When we are selling, designing and/or building a virtual infrastructure, we brag about consolidation ratios we can accomplish. But what’s a consolidation ratio of 8 to 1 or 10 to 1? In this case a picture says more than a thousand words …….. On the right a part of the servers we collected during a [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to: License Microsoft Windows Server in a VMware environment – Part 1

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:32:56 +0000

Last week I had another nice discussion around the 90 day assignment rule for Windows Server licensing on a VMware environment. To answer this shortly: You may move running instances between licensed servers without acquiring additional licenses. However you cannot exceed the maximum number of instances each server is licensed to run. Microsoft Operating System [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Project VRC: Clock drift and test results

Anne Jan Elsinga — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:54:04 +0000

Project Virtual Reality Check finally posted a new document about previous results and possible clock drift when using the “Login Virtual Session Indexer (VSI)”. Previous test setups and results didn’t take into account how different hypervisors handle passing time. In my opinion this is a serious setback to Project VRC which is considered an institute [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Getting your money back

Anne Jan Elsinga — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:59:23 +0000

To get a new project funded is often hard work. You have to calculate how much it costs to build your virtual infrastructure and how fast you can save money so you can justify the investment. Even after you started the project and you are building the infrastructure you still have to keep an eye [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Want to play truth or dare with the Oracle Sales force?

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:37:40 +0000

After some hard pushing and nudging with Oracle sales the last couple of months I almost became a Oracle licensing guru. Not what I had in mind and was aiming for to be honest. While completing some business cases about virtualization for several customers, Oracle products became a hot issue again. The Oracle Soap I [...]

by Edwin Weijdema