DV02 – Implementing VDI using VDM2, tips and tricks

1 March, 2008

DV02 – Implementing VDI using VDM2, tips and tricks (Puneet Chawla)   VDI is catching on with more and more companies. Personally I’ve not had the question yet to implement it, but I do get questions from my customers about what VDI is and if its suited for them. So, this was a must see [...]

LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

29 February, 2008

LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM) (Drill Instructor Dan Anderson and Tim Meyers) This Lab was great. When entering class and finding your seat, there was this huge American dude standing in front of class. When taking us through the first powerpoint slides, he was constantly walking from left to right and back again, remembering us [...]

AP09 – Fast and easy disk workload characterization on ESX

AP09 – Fast and easy disk workload characterization on ESX (Richard McDougall)   When moving an I/O insensitive workload onto ESX, you’re always asking yourself: “Will it hold? Will it perform? Is there something I can tweak to make it perform better?”. In this session Richard showed some things to look at.   The key [...]

VMworld 2008 – The day after

So, here I sit at the beach. A nice cappucino on the table, sun light on my face, Amy Winehouse playing on my mp3-player, beautiful girls doin’ their morning jogging round and a laptop on my knees. I could imagine worse conditions. When walking past Palais des Festivals, the big VMworld advertising is gone, all [...]

VMworld Europe 2008 – AP03 – Virtualization of Microsoft Exchange Server ( the 16.000 mailboxes story)

27 February, 2008

VMworld Europe 2008 – AP03 – Virtualization of Microsoft Exchange Server ( the 16.000 mailboxes story)     After the keynotes this was my first session of the day and I was pleasantly surprised by the high technical level. If all sessions are like this one, VMworld will be a great event for me David [...]