VMware View licensing explained, plain and simple

30 April, 2010

During new software implementations, licensing is often overlooked or done incorrectly. I regularly visit customers who have either too few or too many licenses — seldom does anyone have the amount they actually need.
In my experience, VMware View licensing isn’t any simpler to understand. To save you a headache later on, let’s look at how [...]

Using VMware View on my iPad with Wyse PocketCloud

When visiting the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day in Boston, half the delegates in the bus had already bought an iPad and after seeing what a great device it was, I couldn’t resist and on the last day I bought one myself. I did get some free playtime in the bus with the iPad from [...]

Licensing problems with VMware VIEW4

5 February, 2010

Recently my colleague Jon Klaus was installing VMware VIEW4 with a customer as he ran into a problem. In his setup there where two ESX hosts that each held 10 VDI VM’s and when putting one host into maintenance mode, he received a number of error messages: “The licensing limit on the number of running [...]

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 [...]

My article on VDI

26 September, 2008

I got my first article published. For NetOpus magazine I was allowed to write a commentary on VDI and the hype that it is creating at this moment. It got published in the september issue (nr 6 – 2008).
Below is a link to the pdf. It is only in dutch.
netopus-6-2008
At the dutch datacenter & hosting [...]