Archive for 'VMWare'

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.

Scott Herald speaks at VMUG VESI Workshop

The VMUG VESI Workshop yesterday was a great success!!! It had everything a great workshop should have: Some Superstars, great content and pizza!

You cut the power to your ESXi with VMFS running on a RAIDAdapter with WriteCache on without a BBU What happens next?

I’ve been quite busy the last couple of weeks with building my own ESXi production machine. After reading a lot about the different RAID/storage solutions and how dangerous enabling Write cache on a BBU-Less RAID controller is, I decided it was time for a little experiment…

Bouke’s VMWare Performance Troubleshooting presentation online now!

Bouke Groenescheij made an awesome presentation about Performance Troubleshooting in VMWare which he presented

VMUG 2009 Video Blog

Videoblogging from the VMUG 2009 today (This post will be updated during the day) and starting with: Raw footage from the opening of VMUG 2009 by Viktor vd Berg.

Live Blogging at VMUG 2009

If everything goes to plan, the VMUG event will provide us with wireless internet so that live blogging will be possible. My plan is

Poll:VMWare Workstation topheavy or feature-rich?

I recently upgraded our App-v  sequencer stations which run VMWare Workstation. Before I started the upgrade something occurred to me

VMUG 2009 Don’t miss it!!!

The VMWare User Group Event 2009 is coming up on Friday 11-12-2009. The agenda this year is simply outstanding. This is the first year where I’m going to have trouble choosing which session to go to!! (Something I only experienced when I attended Briforum a couple of years back).  With guys like Eric Sloof, Viktor [...]