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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 vCloud Director design guidelines

Erik Scholten — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:00:46 +0000

After VMware vSphere and View, VMware vCloud Director is the next big thing to setup and customers start asking for it. But the problem is that the knowledge and available resources are limited. So for real life implementations of vCloud Director we have to rely on VMware employees to show us the ropes. First of [...]

by Erik Scholten

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 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

ESXi 4.1 installation fails – Unable to find the system image

Erik Scholten — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:19:38 +0000

Earlier this week I already told you that I’ve build a new ESXi whitebox but I had some problems installing it. OK, first of all, what was the situation? I wanted to install VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1 to a USB stick which is VMware certified.I plugged the USB stick into one of the USB ports [...]

by Erik Scholten

Updated VMware support policy on MSCS

Erik Scholten — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:04:29 +0000

August 2010 I wrote an article on support for Exchange CCR clustering on VMware with iSCSI. VMware’s response then was very simple and straight forward. Exchange CCR clustering on VMware is not supported on iSCSI! When asked if VMware had plans to change this support issue in the future the response was promising. “The Exchange [...]

by Erik Scholten

Cisco, a serious player in the server market

Erik Scholten — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:45:29 +0000

In the past, when I had to design a virtual infrastructure, I had a limited range of server hardware to pick from. Mainly HP and Dell or an occasional IBM server. But since the beginning of this year I can not bypass Cisco. It is still a bit strange to some people when you mention [...]

by Erik Scholten

Review: Exchange Server 2010 training by TrainSignal

Alex Muetstege — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:57:49 +0000

Some time ago.. actually, a long time ago, we here at VMGuru.nl received a sample of a training DVD from TrainSignal. I promised to write a review on it, but I honestly didn’t come around to it due to all sorts of personal stuff. But the DVD box made it safely through the move from [...]

by Alex Muetstege

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