VMware vSphere 4.1 released – What’s new?

13 July, 2010

As many of you expected, the new VMware vSphere version is called VMware vSphere 4.1. The hints have been clear these past few weeks and today it became official. Today was the official release and we can finally start blogging about VMware vSphere’s latest features. In the next few days I will post a number [...]

Interview with Matt McSpirit – Partner technology advisor at Microsoft UK

25 June, 2010

Matt McSpirit is a Partner technology Advisor, who works with Microsoft Partners in the UK, enabling them to build practices around Microsoft Virtualization and Management Technologies.  Matt’s role stretches across Server, Desktop and Application Virtualization, along with the associated System Center Management technologies.
Gabe: Matt, why has Microsoft reached out to some bloggers in the community [...]

How to supply resources for Citrix XenApp on VMware?

21 June, 2010

I bet many of you that are virtualizing Citrix XenApp, have read the Project VRC whitepapers and want to implement their best practices. Especially in small environments however, it can be a headache creating the design. My biggest headache was and is, is the way I can guarantee no CPU over commit for the pCPU’s [...]

VMware vSphere 4 default installation settings

13 May, 2010

When I was writing an installation document on vSphere I thought and have some friends on twitter check the doc and comment on it. I received a lot of responses and decided to make a blog post out of it, so here it is.

News from VMware's Partner Exchange Keynote

10 February, 2010

Twitter is a great tool if you’re not in Vegas and still want to know what happened at VMware’s Partner Exchange. All the info posted below is info I picked up from twitter, so be aware that not everything is double checked !!! Please do use the comments section to correct or add info [...]