In my home lab it sometimes happens that I lose power and then my Iomega IX4-200D will reboot. Often, the ESX hosts I run in my lab have trouble reconnecting to the NFS share on the IX4-200D which will cause my primary VMs to fail. Both my domain controllers, vCenter server, SQL Server and Exchange Server are on the IX4. Yes I know it is bad design to have both domain controllers on the same datastore, but hey… it’s a lab and I normally can live with this issue (more…)

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VMworld 2010 is getting closer and a lot of presentations have been submitted to VMware. Now it is up to the public to decide which sessions they want to see. My colleague Jos Vanaubel and I have also submitted a session, named: “Disaster Recovery the Dutch way: Cheap”. We will show you how to perform a disaster recovery if you have a small site and can’t use fancy tools like VMware Site Recovery Manager to quickly switch datacenters. Using a number of scripts and tools, we’ll show how to perform a manual Disaster Recovery.

So, please vote: Disaster Recovery the Dutch way: Cheap

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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.

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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 to properly license your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment with VMware View.

For more read on at SearchVMware.com

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Dear readers,

Unfortunately the website is having some issues lately which causes the site to be very slow or even bring the site down. It is a strange memory leak problem that sometimes doesn’t happen for days and then hits me two times a day. Very unpredictable and therefore difficult to solve. Should you experience downtime, please try again later.

Gabrie

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