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RAID 5 and 6 support for VMware VSA

Erik Scholten — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:20:58 +0000

Yesterday VMware announced that it will be supporting RAID 5 and 6 with their Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). With the release of vSphere 5, VMware also released their VSA, a shared storage solution for the SMB market. VMware VSA uses the local storage in each ESXi server, presents it to the VSA appliance which in [...]

by Erik Scholten

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

Time to vote again, Top VMware and virtualization blogs 2012

Edwin Weijdema — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:06:02 +0000

It is that time of the year again, the last voting was over a year ago where we made it, thanks to you!, to the 13th place. Voting is now open again for the top VMware & virtualization blogs. It would be nice and a great honor to get us in the Top 10 this [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

New iSCSI software release by Starwind brings all new features

Alex Muetstege — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:17:01 +0000

Today we received the press release of the new Starwind iSCSI software with the all new VM Backup technology. Starwind is an innovative company and one of the first to offer an iSCSI initiator on the Microsoft Windows platform without a lot of hassle. Now, this product has come a long way since then and [...]

by Alex Muetstege

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

VKernel vOps 4.5

Erik Scholten — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:15:08 +0000

On December 19th VKernel released version 4.5 of its vOps management software. vOps 4.5 addresses the increasing volume of routine virtual machine management tasks in virtualized environments. This increase is caused by the enormous growth in the number of virtual machines. Nowadays we provision many more virtual servers than we ever had physical ones because [...]

by Erik Scholten

Happy & virtual 2012!

Erik Scholten — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:56:44 +0000

This year has almost come to an end and what a year it has been. During 2011 VMware released a lot of new great products like vSphere 5, View 5, Workstation 8, Fusion 4, Horizon App Manager, vFabric Data Director, etc. We also visited some amazing events which resulted in great experiences and content. It [...]

by Erik Scholten

And the Winners are….

Edwin Weijdema — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:34:07 +0000

Congratulations to our 2011 Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security winners, Edwin Broeken and Michael Jonker. Thank you all again who joined us at the Dutch VMUG 2011 event and whom retweeted the tweets. Also a big thanks go out to Trend Micro for giving away two copies. During the Dutch VMUG event lunch the MonsterVM [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

MonsterVM party crashes the Dutch VMUG!

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:20:44 +0000

During the Dutch VMUG event 2011 the MonsterVM was more or less party crashing on behalf of Steve Herrod. During the keynote Viktor got a call from Steve Herrod announcing that the MonsterVM was about to enter the Dutch VMUG event. During the lunch everyone who had the guts could get his picture taken with [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

New PCoIP firmware released

Erik Scholten — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:50:03 +0000

Today VMware’s partner Teradici announced a significant new releases from their PCoIP zero client and host card firmware and the PCoIP Management Console. The following releases are now available for download on the Teradici support site (techsupport.teradici.com): Firmware 3.5.0 for PCoIP Zero Clients and PCoIP Host Cards. PCoIP Management Console 1.7.0 The new firmware update [...]

by Erik Scholten