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		<title>VMware ALERT: VMware View Composer 2.0.x is not supported in a vSphere vCenter Server 4.1</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/07/vmware-alert-vmware-view-composer-2-0-x-is-not-supported-in-a-vsphere-vcenter-server-4-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/07/vmware-alert-vmware-view-composer-2-0-x-is-not-supported-in-a-vsphere-vcenter-server-4-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Scholten</dc:creator>
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There was an issue discovered earlier today that prevents View Composer  from working with vSphere 4.1.
Because of that VMware View  Composer 2.0.x is not supported in a vSphere vCenter Server 4.1 managed  environment as vSphere vCenter Server 4.1 requires a 64 bit operating  system and VMware View Composer does not support 64 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to: Upgrade to vSphere 4.1</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/07/how-to-upgrade-to-vsphere-4-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Scholten</dc:creator>
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With yesterdays release of vSphere 4.1 comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation to this new version. Because I have been testing the beta for a while now, I couldn´t wait to try it in our new testing environment.

However, there are a few caveats:

VMware released a KB article with the supported upgrade methods for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware vSphere 4.1 released</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/07/vmware-vsphere-4-1-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Scholten</dc:creator>
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A few minutes ago VMware has released the new version of VMware vSphere, version 4.1.

This new vSphere version contains 150 new features and has improved scalability, memory management, DRS, etc.
Besides all the new features the greatest news is that vSphere 4.1 is the last version which will have an ESX version (with service console). As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMware abandons CPU based licensing model</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/07/vmware-abandons-cpu-based-licensing-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/07/vmware-abandons-cpu-based-licensing-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Scholten</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[vCenter AppSpeed]]></category>
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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.
As of today VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The VMware Infrastructure 3 Support Life Cycle</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/06/the-vmware-infrastructure-3-support-life-cycle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/06/the-vmware-infrastructure-3-support-life-cycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Weijdema</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Support]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=3788</guid>
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If you haven&#8217;t upgraded to VMware vSphere 4 by now, you should consider it and rethink your strategy. VMware has removed all but the most recent versions of their Virtual Infrastructure product binaries from their download page on June 17th. As of May 2010, the following Virtual infrastructure products have all reached end of general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>vSphere network troubleshooting</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/04/vsphere-network-troubleshooting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/04/vsphere-network-troubleshooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Scholten</dc:creator>
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During the last month I have been very busy building a new infrastructure at a client site. I&#8217;m responsible for the overall technical solution and the basis, a VMware vSphere infrastructure build on five Dell PowerEdge R805&#8217;s, Dell EqualLogic PS5000 and 6000 storage and Cisco switches for LAN, DMZ and IP storage networking.
Just before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating ESX hosts with FT enabled VM&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/04/updating-esx-hosts-with-ft-enabled-vms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/04/updating-esx-hosts-with-ft-enabled-vms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sander Martijn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Faul Tolerance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=3581</guid>
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Up until a week ago, I hadn’t had the pleasure to work a lot with vSphere. Now with a test environment at the customer site I was able to freely play a bit with vSphere. One of the features I was curious on trying was Fault Tolerance (FT). I just created a random VM and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to: License Microsoft Windows Server in a VMware environment – Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/04/how-to-license-microsoft-windows-server-in-a-vmware-environment-%e2%80%93-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/04/how-to-license-microsoft-windows-server-in-a-vmware-environment-%e2%80%93-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Weijdema</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=3563</guid>
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Last week I had another nice discussion around the 90 day assignment rule for Windows Server licensing on a VMware environment.  To answer this shortly: You may move running instances between licensed servers without acquiring additional licenses. However you cannot exceed the maximum number of instances each server is licensed to run.
Microsoft Operating System Environments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated: Determining VMware Build Numbers for several VMware Products</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/03/determining-vmware-build-numbers-for-several-vmware-products/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/03/determining-vmware-build-numbers-for-several-vmware-products/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Weijdema</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/?p=2957</guid>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>vSphere 4: 9 months later</title>
		<link>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/01/vsphere-4-9-months-later/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/01/vsphere-4-9-months-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Scholten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>
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May 21th VMware released their new flagship product VMware vSphere 4 which should bring us tons of new features and performance improvements.
But how is the vSphere experience almost 9 months later?
Starting with the installation and setup experience, my personal experience with vSphere is very good. During the installation and setup of VMware ESX or ESXi [...]]]></description>
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