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Quicknote: How to check the block size AFTER the format of a NTFS partition

Hmm..looks like there is no fast GUI way to view what blocksize a NTFS partition was formatted with after the fact. Turns out that there are several ways to do it but this is the one I found the most useful.

Intel Releases new firmware for X25-M/X18 SSD’s

I almost missed the news that Intel has released a firmware upgrade for the following SSD models:

Citrix Webinterface 5.4 Dutch language pack

We beginnen 2011 gelijk maar goed met de aankondiging van een Dutch Language Pack voor de Citrix WI 5.4 versie!

VKernel issues its first Virtualization Management Index (VMI) report

Using data drawn from over 2,500 virtualized environments representing over 550,000 virtual machines, the first VMI paints a picture of

Testdriving the VKernel Capacity Management Suite

The life of an IT-Admin is getting more complex by the day. We’re dealing with: Endless endpoints, <Insert type>Servers, Tons of (Legacy) Applications,different layers of Virtualization, Workspace Management, Network and of course our precious users on a daily basis! So how does VKernel help simplify matters?

Using RRDtool and PowerShell to plot performance graphs

When Bouke Groenscheij (pronounced as “Bauke” not “Boeke”) is quiet he’s usually up to something. He created a brilliant way to grab performance stats and plot these into nice looking Graphs using Powershell and the RDD Tool.

Testdriving Paragon’s Partition Alignment Tool v 2.0

Partition Alignment in Virtual Machines is an issue that popped up a couple of years back and created a lot of blogfood at the time. The process to enjoy this newly found wisdom used to be painful and involve a lot of moving data to newly properly aligned partitions. And as for the systemdrive…that was [...]

Quicknote: My IT Quote for 29-10-2010

“Even today, life hasn’t changed much for the TS Admin since NT4: Every TS Admin is always in search for a Win32k.sys file that doesn’t crash his Terminal Servers!”

Virtualistic.nl presents: Simple script to copy files to any number of servers

I found myself copying files and folders to a number of servers lately. While I was doing this, I saw Alan Renouf and Arne Fokkema appearing on a white wall, in the form of  Powershell ghosts reminding me that everything you have to do more that twice, should be scripted (source:VESI VMUG meeting).

Poll uitslag: behoefte aan een Dutch Language Pack voor Citrix WI 5.3?

Iedereen bedankt voor het stemmen! De resultaten zijn binnen en daaraan verbonden mijn beslissing…