Today, when performing a VMware Health Check, I came across a strange issue with a customer of mine. Well, issue is maybe a big word, but I discovered the VMware Tools version some of the VMs had running, were newer than the VMware Tools version from a newly installed VM. To make sure I double [...]
About half a year ago, I came across the website of Virtual Computer.com on which I read about a new Client Hypervisor called NxTop. Now the time is here to report about it, since the release is near. The complete product consists of the NxTop Enginer (the hypervisor) and NxTop Center for management. The NxTop [...]
Today I was drawn to this blog post from Microsoft: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate! (Free Live Migration/HA Anyone?). This post confirmed what was expected, Microsoft will be offering Live Migration for free when Hyper-V v2 will be released. This will sureley put some pressure on VMware vSphere pricing or not? If we [...]
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 [...]
Daily, I have contact with a lot of people from all over the world. Contact through virtual media like MSN, GTalk, Twitter, online forum, e-mail, etc. And for me, meeting quite a number of them at VMworld in Cannes, is kind of exciting. I’m really looking forward to meeting all these people in real life. [...]
