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Waiting is over – download vSphere 5 now!

Erik Scholten — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:19:03 +0000

After the release on July 12th, you can now download VMware vSphere 5 and enjoy the 150 new features. You can find the downloads here. For more information visit: VMware ESXi and VMware ESX Info Center VMware vSphere 5 release notes. If you want to upgrade your existing VMware vSphere installation, check out my previous [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to: Upgrade to vSphere 5

Erik Scholten — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:26:56 +0000

On July 12th, VMware announced the release of vSphere 5. With the release comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation. However, there are a few caveats: vSphere 5 is the first version which comes in a ESXi version ONLY! ESXi 5 is available in an embedded or installable version. If you’re running ESX 3.x [...]

by Erik Scholten

Orchestrator plugin for Active Directory released

Anne Jan Elsinga — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:40:44 +0000

Last Friday VMware released the Orchestrator plugin for Active Directory v1.0. With the plugin it is possible to manage Active Directory objects straight from within Orchestrator. For those of you that don’t know what VMware Orchestrator is: VMware vCenter Orchestrator provides out of the box workflows that can help administrators automate existing manual tasks. Administrators [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

vSphere client for iPad released

Erik Scholten — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:14:17 +0000

A few minutes ago VMware released their long awaited vSphere client for the iPad and it is available at the AppStore for FREE. VMware’s goal is to provide a tool which can be accessed anywhere to perform essential tasks and view performance metrics in a simplified interface. It is not intended to be the functional [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMware released vSphere 4.1 Update 1

Erik Scholten — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:20 +0000

Tonight VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server 4.1. Update 1 for ESX/ESXi contains a few new/improved features: Enablement of Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) — ESXi 4.1 Update 1 can be configured to boot with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). This boot option can protect ESXi in some cases where system binaries [...]

by Erik Scholten

Dutch VMUG: PowerCLI is for administrators!

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:19:19 +0000

Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf did a great presentation on PowerCLI. PowerCLI is based on PowerShell. PowerShell is designed by Microsoft with the SysAdmin in mind. It’s the universal language for Windows data centers. Most of the time GUI interfaces are single purpose and rigid. PowerShell is the glue between your infrastructure. Microsoft makes it [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Challenge: vCenter, EVC and Distributed Virtual switches.

Erik Scholten — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:15:49 +0000

Yesterday a colleague asked me to add four blades from our old test environment to our new VMware vSphere 4.1 test environment. Of course this was no problem (yet), I had an hour or two to spare, so I started immediately. Download the ESXi 4.1 installable ISO, connecting this to the four blades, installing and [...]

by Erik Scholten

Keeping your infrastructure up to date

Sander Martijn — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:06:16 +0000

As with most products you want to keep them up to date for several reasons, which can include security, availability, reliability or even new features in the product. Keeping products up to date is a process that keeps repeating itself and needs a good plan to keep up with the most recent updates. A lot of times though you will [...]

by Sander Martijn

vCenter server performance charts fail

Erik Scholten — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:51:11 +0000

In order to reach everyone possible, VMware put out an alert via the VMware toolbar yesterday, repeating the message with regards to the issue users of VMware vCenter Server may experience with performance charts after the time change over the past weekend. So, again: Users of VMware vCenter Server may notice the following since the [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMware abandons CPU based licensing model

Erik Scholten — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:10:49 +0000

With the release of vSphere 4.1, VMware has released a new licensing model. The management products below change from a CPU-based pricing model to one that is VM-based. VMware vCenter CapacityIQ; VMware vCenter AppSpeed; VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager; VMware vCenter Chargeback. Until December 15th these product can be offered both ways, CPU-, or VM-based. [...]

by Erik Scholten