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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

Dutch VMUG: VMware HA and DRS – Q&A

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:37:49 +0000

Duncan Epping, Consulting Architect, Cloud Practice Frank Denneman, Consulting Architect, PSO Duncan and Frank are the authors of the VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deep dive. It is available from Amazon, and from Monday it will also be available at Computer Collectief. You can order it from today from Computer Collectief. The book [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Dutch VMUG: vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:45:39 +0000

Eric Sloof, instructor and blogger for NTPro.nl, gave a great presentation on advanced troubleshooting on vSphere. Eric shows that you can use esxtop for troubleshooting on almost every level. He said a lot about troubleshooting. Below you’ll find the things I could write down during his talk. CPU Ready Time. interval in the graphic is important. [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Dutch VMUG: vCloud Director presentation and demo

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:53:35 +0000

Willem van Engeland (VMware) and Duncan Epping (VMware, Yellow Bricks) did a presentation on vCloud Director. Paul Maritz said earlier: Cloud-based infrastructure will become the new hardware”, shifting from running your applications on HP, IBM or Dell hardware to Terremark. With vCloud Director you can create your own cloud: public, private or hybrid. VMware published a [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Dutch VMUG: Keynote

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:53:03 +0000

Today the 6th edition of the Dutch VMUG has started. Viktor van den Berg, Dutch VMUG leader, opened the VMUG around the 9.30 with a couple of facts and figures around the Dutch VMUG: There are more than 50.000 VMUG members in the world The Dutch VMUG has 5.131 members There are 181 participants for [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Live from the VMUG.

Erik Scholten — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:30:18 +0000

Today is V-day, the day of the annual dutch VMUG and the complete VMGuru.nl will be there to report live from Nieuwegein (NL). So check out VMGuru.nl regularly today to see and hear what happens at the VMUG event. You can also follow us on twitter and/or check the #vmugevent and #DutchVMUG tags on twitter.

by Erik Scholten

Only two weeks until an impressive dutch VMUG

Erik Scholten — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:10:21 +0000

It’s only two weeks until the annual dutch VMUG with a very impressive speaker line-up. Many international speakers are going to deliver great sessions, workshops and Q/A-sessions at the Nieuwegein Business Center (NBC) on December 10th. If you’re interest and work involves virtualization and you haven’t registered yet, you should!. This is an event you [...]

by Erik Scholten

The real value of Project VRC

Erik Scholten — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:48:50 +0000

About two weeks ago I attended a session at the VMware User Group meeting here in the Netherlands about Project VRC. After the presentation I asked myself: ‘What is the value of this project?‘. For you who don’t know what Project VRC is: “Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) is a joint venture of Log•in Consultants [...]

by Erik Scholten

Dutch VMUG video extravaganza

Erik Scholten — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:41:48 +0000

Yesterday was the big day for over 600 VMware enthusiasts in the Netherlands because the fifth Dutch VMUG event took place at the Nieuwegein Business Center. As usual Eric Sloof from NTPro.nl performed his usual video extravaganza which can be viewed at his website. Eric created a 24 minute video diary of the whole day and [...]

by Erik Scholten

vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop @ DutchVMUG

Erik Scholten — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:46:15 +0000

The last breakout session we attended the XTG vCenter Server Heartbeat workshop, a quick way to get familiar with a new VMware product. The instructor first introduced us to the product and discussed some installation and configuration hints and tips. After that we quickly started with preparing and cloning the vCenter Server and installing and [...]

by Erik Scholten