Using Linux shell scripts to automatically create VMware ESX 3.5 hosts

30 March, 2009

On the SearchVMware section of TechTarget.com a new tip of mine is published.
“In any VMware ESX environment, VMware ESX hosts within the same cluster must be configured the same way. If a host in a cluster is not properly configured, basic networkingoperations such as or VMotion will fail. Manually installing and configuring new hosts or [...]

Things that make you go hmmm !!! [vSphere what's new]

19 March, 2009

When working with the beta of vSphere, I of course saw a lot of new big features. But I thought I’d show you some little changes that take away some of the annoyance I had when working with VI3 or just improved the usability with just little changes.

VMware and performance, a strange combination

13 March, 2009

Most consultants that are deep into virtualization and VMware in specific, know that VMware has a special policy on publishing performance data. By EULA it is not allowed to publish your own performance results if VMware hasn’t had the chance to check your test plan and configuration. Not many other products in the IT have [...]

Citrix Xenbased client hypervisor a very early preview

At VMworld Europe 2009, I got to speak with Joel Stocker about Citrix’s new client hypervisor, codenamed Project Independence. Joel is Senior Technical Product Manager of the Virtualization and Management Division. I got a demo of the client hypervisor and we got into a nice discussion about this new product.
First, one should keep in mind [...]

Presentation: Hyper-V vs ESX in the datacenter

5 March, 2009

This is the revisted version. My companies logo has been removed from the PDF’s of the presentations since we don’t publish reports like this in a way for example Gartner does. If you have been using the previous versions, please delete them and use these new ones without logo’s.
In November 2008, I’ve written three articles [...]