At Techfield day, VMware presented to us delegates their Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) and as expected all these geeks where very interested to see what VMware had to offer. Unfortunately the overall feeling was that the product as demonstrated to us was a bit disappointing. Of course it is still no released product, but even […]
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Breaking news: vWire discontinued and Stephen Beaver available
Just a few minutes ago I received the really sad tweet that Tripwire has decided to discontinue the vWire product. Tripwire has been highly successful in security and compliance and wants to focus all of their efforts on this in 2010. To read more, click here. I’m very sad to hear this news for a […]
DutchVMUG Live blog: Eric Sloof Managing vSphere with the virtualization EcoShell
Next on stage, Eric Sloof. Virtualization EcoShell contains a lot of pre defined filters to show you for example age of snapshots, VMs that are ballooning, etc. EcoShell is free, you can easily add your own powerpacks and create your own scripts to manage your virtual infrastructure in the way best suited for you. The […]
I had a dream….
I had a dream and in that dream I saw that in 2011: Nobody is fighting over hypervisor performance anymore. Whether Hyper-V, Xen or VMware, all three are perfectly capable of running the heaviest workloads in your datacenter. Companies will use a mix of hypervisors for specific duties. There are still differences between the three […]
Smarter Microsoft licensing can reduce VMware environment costs
If you consolidated physical servers with virtualization, you probably did so to reduce the costs of maintaining many physical servers — namely power and cooling, rack space, support contracts, physical hardware and so on.As a consultant, I often work with clients who have embarked on large server consolidation projects, migrated many physical hosts to virtual […]