29 July, 2011
Last few weeks a lot of talk has been about the new VMware licensing for vSphere 5. Many reported how this would work against VMware’s principle of running as many VMs on one host as possible. After the dust had settled, people started checking their own situations and found that things weren’t as bad as [...]
Filed under: ESX - Licensing - VMware - Whats New
by Gabrie van Zanten
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13 July, 2011
I bet you all heard about the big news yesterday where VMware announced vSphere 5. Despite a lot of applauding for the great new features, there also a lot of noise on twitter about the new licensing for vSphere. VMware has decided to move to vRAM licensing without any maximums on the amount of RAM [...]
Filed under: ESX - esxi - Licensing - memory - VMware - Whats New
by Gabrie van Zanten
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18 March, 2011
Today VMware released the long awaited VMware vSphere client for the iPad. Since VMworld 2010 the rumors where that the vSphere client for iPad would be released anytime soon, but unfortunately we had to wait until today before we could play with it. The VMware vSphere client for the iPad is FREE and great for [...]
Filed under: ESX - Virtual Center - VMware - Whats New
by Gabrie van Zanten
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28 September, 2010
Just before I was heading home, my colleague asked me to assist with a VM he couldn’t power on anymore. Seemed a customer had tried to commit a snapshot and the job timed out. The customer then tried some other things and suddenly the VM was down. While trying to power on, there was an [...]
Filed under: Disaster Recovery - ESX - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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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.
Filed under: ESX - esxi - Guides - scripting - Virtual Center - VirtualSwitches - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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