Last week the well known powershell guru Alan Renouf helped me out with a script for enabling virtualized MMU. This week I needed to set Disk.UseDeviceReset to “0″ on at least 60 hosts. (Check the link for more info on why!) No point in doing it all by hand when the VI Toolkit can help you out and set this [...]

As most of you know I’m a technical guy and my blogs mainly deal about technical stuff. Don’t be afraid it will stay this way. There’s no need for me to head in a different direction and I don’t think I could… at least not on the same level as Brenda aka Virtual Gipsy. Brenda just published an amazing article [...]

A couple of months ago I was asked to tech edit a book. I knew more people were editing the book but for some reason I didn’t know who. I just learned that Chris Wolf and Ruben Spruijt were my partners in crime, and I’m honored cause I think both are industry experts! “Virtualization, A Beginner’s Guide” deals about every [...]

Eric Sloof just posted that a beta of the Design Exam, which is part of the VCDX Certification, is available as of now. VMware is pleased to announce the availability of the Design Exam (beta).  I can take the exam at Pearson VUE Professional Centers in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid. Only individuals who have successfully passed the Enterprise Administration Exam [...]

vI just finished reading a brand new book titled “VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration” by Eric Siebert. I was pleasantly surprised by the in depth information that the book contains. The book is based on ESX(i) /vCenter 3.5 U3 and discusses every aspect of implementing and administering your virtual environment including troubleshooting, installation, backup and monitoring.  What ATDG is for [...]

I received an email from Hyper9 last week which was kind of surprising. I planned to do a short article last week but for some reason I never managed to write and publish it. Here’s an outtake from the press release I received a week ago: Hyper9, Inc. (www.hyper9.com), the leading provider of management information for virtual infrastructures announced today [...]

I’ve been doing Citrix XenApp performance tests over the last couple of days. Our goal was simple: as many user sessions on a single ESX host as possible, not taking per VM cost in account. Reading the Project VRC performance tests we decided to give both 1 vCPU VM’s and 2 vCPU VM’s a try. Because the customer was using [...]