Putting your storage to the test Doesn’t everybody want to brag about how fast their storage is? How they configured and tweaked for hours to squeeze the last bit of IO out of their storage? But what does it mean when someone says: “My box can do 1200 IOPSâ€. Is that read speed, write speed, […]
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 […]
Licensing virtual machines: Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter edition?
Licensing remains a difficult problem in today’s virtual infrastructure. Some things are easy to understand and some are not. After visiting a session on Microsoft licensing one day, I heard a number of new things that I wanted to share with you. I will give you a few definitions used in Microsoft licensing and a […]
DutchVMUG Live blog: Virtualizing Exchange on VMware
Jan Willem Lammers presenting on Virtualizing Exchange on VMware. First he’s checking with the audience on how many mailboxes they are running virtual. Some run 10.000 mailboxes !!! Is Exchange supported? YES !!! Scenario 1: See: Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program. ESX 3.5U2+ and vSphere 4.0 on Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007. When certified for Windows […]
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 […]