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How to license Microsoft Windows 7 for VMware View deployments

Edwin Weijdema — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:23:00 +0000

I often get questions about how to license Microsoft Windows 7 in a VMware View VDI deployment, I will try to elaborate what is needed in general and for specific scenarios. By understanding how they apply to common VMware View scenarios you can calculate and try to get the most out of existing and new [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

VMware ready for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

Erik Scholten — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:06:12 +0000

Yesterday VMware announced that it is ready to deliver the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud Datacenter services. For now this is only available from BlueLock and Colt and through beta services from Verizon. VMware also introduced VMware vCloud Connector, a free plug-in that will allow deployment and management of virtual machines [...]

by Erik Scholten

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

Virtualize your remote offices using VMware Essentials RoBo

Alex Muetstege — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:03:54 +0000

Some of you might already have been there. I know I have: You have a large organization with more than 10 remote or branch offices. You have virtualized your entire back-end but those nasty site servers still remain a physical nuisance. Some regional offices have a complete data center with more than 20 servers just [...]

by Alex Muetstege

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

Updated: Determining VMware Build Numbers for several VMware Products

Edwin Weijdema — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:55:50 +0000

While I was updating the Determining VMware vCenter and ESX Build Numbers post I thought I would semi-automate the updating of the post with new build numbers for new releases, while working on it I started too fill an excel sheet and ended up with an excel sheet with the following products and build numbers [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Hyper-V R2 vs vSphere: A feature comparison

Erik Scholten — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:58:54 +0000

At the end of May of this year we wrote a article concerning Hypervisor comparisons and we got a lot of positive feedback on it. The downside to that is that people want an update as soon as one of the companies launches a new version of its product, and who can blame them. However [...]

by Erik Scholten

Virtual Infrastructure best practices

Erik Scholten — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:00:18 +0000

[Updated: 8-11-2009 10:00] Lately I keep receiving questions from colleagues regarding virtual infrastructure design using VMware products. So I decided to sum up the best practices I use when designing a new virtual infrastructure. Some of the best practices are based on numbers and calculations but others are pretty obvious. Nevertheless you would be surprised [...]

by Erik Scholten

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

Red Hat subscriptions on a VMware infrastructure

Edwin Weijdema — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:21:53 +0000

The world of licenses and subscription models is a complex whole, by adding a virtual component it even got more complex. Virtual machines aren’t bound to one physical server and can move freely across several physical servers or even in and out of a cloud. Fortunately more and more software vendors are changing their license [...]

by Edwin Weijdema