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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

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

SRM 4.0 released

Erik Scholten — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:44:30 +0000

Back in April we we’re the first to report the limited management and automation support in vSphere, but now VMware has released version 4.0 of vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Besides that vCenter Site Recovery Manager can now be used with VMware’s vSphere 4 it has some additional new features and improvements, like: Support for NFS [...]

by Erik Scholten

vSphere 4 HA may not work with certain IP addresses

Erik Scholten — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:06:02 +0000

Filtering through my e-mail after a short, one week, holiday I ran into an e-mail from one of my colleagues pointing me to VMware KB Article 1013013. This KB article describes one of the first patches for vCenter Server 4. The problem is that High Availability in a vSphere 4 virtual environment may not work [...]

by Erik Scholten

Great new VMware whitepapers

Erik Scholten — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:02:04 +0000

Usually everybody is on holiday during this period and because of that we lack new projects and great news. ‘Komkommertijd‘, as we call it in the Netherlands. Fortunately (for us) Duncan Epping, known from Yellow-Bricks, isn’t on holiday (yet) and he pointed me to some great new VMware whitepapers. So,do you want to get educated [...]

by Erik Scholten

Vacation update (week 27-29)

Erik Scholten — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:31:36 +0000

The post frequency on VMGuru.nl has been a bit low because I have been on ‘holiday’ for the last three weeks. During these three weeks I’ve been very busy moving to my new house. Now I’m back and the first thing to do is to plough through my Inbox and check all interesting RSS news [...]

by Erik Scholten

Limited management & automation support for vSphere

Erik Scholten — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:15:47 +0000

Update April 22th 2009: Today the rumor mentioned below was confirmed during the vSphere 4 launch. Rumor in the VMware community has it that the next version of VMware ESX, vSphere, has very limited support for the VMware management and automation suite. vSphere will of course be available with vCenter for basic management and automation [...]

by Erik Scholten

Technical Track: Demo of DR Testing with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Anne Jan Elsinga — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:00:26 +0000

Title: Technical Track: Demo of DR Testing with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Location: online Link out: Click here Description: In this webcast, we will provide a live demo of the disaster recovery (DR) testing features of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. This solution makes DR testing much more reliable and realistic by automating testing [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

ESXi bug when changing IP address

Erik Scholten — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:51:14 +0000

Yesterday I ran into VMware HA problems again. With my past HA troubleshooting experiences I thought configuring HA wouldn’t be a problem any more but unfortunately it bit me in the ass again. We all know VMware ESX implementations where not all information, access, etc is available when you start with the installation. Exactly this [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMWorld Euope 2009 – VMware introduces vCenter Server Heartbeat

Erik Scholten — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:00:26 +0000

February 10th I participated in a VMware WebEx on their new vCenter addon, vCenter Server Heartbeat and today the news will be released in Cannes at VMWorld Europe 2009. vCenter Server Heartbeat is an important addon which creates high availability for vCenter Server. vCenter Server Heartbeat monitors and protects VMware’s management platform against network, hardware, [...]

by Erik Scholten