Lately I have been seeing more and more people recommending to limit clusters to eight hosts. I guess I might be more or less responsible for this “myth“, unintentionally of course as I would never make a recommendation like that. My article was based on the maximum amount of VMs per host in a HA cluster with 9 hosts or [...]

Here I am again. VMware Professional Services has four openings at the moment. All these are EMEA based roles. Preferably UK/France/Germany/Netherlands. Notice the “Cloud Services” part of it! This is a brand new team: As part of VMware’s strategic vCloud initiative, VMware is developing a new Cloud Services team that is 100% focused on deploying VMware-based “clouds” at Service Providers [...]

Last week we decided to also make the vSphere Quick Start Guide available as an electronic book as requested by many of you. We discussed Kindle and PDF format, and decided to go with PDF as Kindle is not widely used in Europe. It’s available for only $ 9.99 or €7.14 via lulu. Pick it up. We are currently also [...]

Just something I wanted to document for myself as it is info I need on a regular basis and always have trouble finding it or at least finding the correct bits and pieces. I was more or less triggered by this excellent white paper that Herco van Brug wrote. I do want to invite everyone out there to comment. I [...]

This is probably one of the last blog articles this year as I’ve got two weeks of holiday! I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Let’s cut the crap, and start with why you are reading this… ESXi Lessons Learned: I’ve been looking into creating an unattended install for ESXi. As mentioned in Lessons Learned [...]

I was reading Eric Siebert’s excellent article on Changed Block Tracking(CBT) and the article on Punching Cloud on this new feature which is part of vSphere. CBT enables incremental backups of full VMDKs. Something that isn’t covered is what the “block” part of Changed Block Tracking actually stands for. Someone asked me on the VMTN Communities and it’s something I [...]

Just noticed that you can get 20% discount if you order you vSphere Quick Start Guide via Lulu.com. The coupon code is “HOHOHO”, indeed Merry Christmas to all of you.