I had discussion with Richard Garsthagen during the Dutch VMUG about View/VDI related blogs, or better said the lack of. It appears that desktop is a topic bloggers are avoiding. The weird thing about it is that in the industry View is picking up more and more. Yes there are a couple of bloggers out there who are focussing onView [...]
For some weird reason I never picked up on this tool. Months ago Richard Garsthagen released a beta version of vAudit and recently it was updated to version 1.5. Why would you use vAudit? vAudit has been developed to show you when your VDI Users are logging in and for how long they are using the virtual desktop. I think [...]
As you know Friday was the fifth anual Dutch VMUG Event. The event is not like most VMUG events, it’s almost a mini VMworld. This year over 600 enthusiastic people attended… or should I say soldiers! It’s the Dutch VCP VMUG Army. The following picture was taken by Victor when he was opening the event. VMware’s CTO Steve Herrod welcomed [...]
I received Steve Jin’s book VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere two weeks ago. For those who don’t know Steve, he is the man behind the VI and vSphere Java API which can be found here. But that’s not the topic today, the topic is the book Steve recently published. The book is available via [...]
New week, new lessons learned… You can find part 1 here. When Jumbo Frames were introduced in ESX 3.5 a lot of people were interested but it wasn’t supported for the VMkernel which is were most people want to use it as it reduces CPU cycles used due to iSCSI/NFS traffic. When vSphere was released it was one of the [...]
ESX(i) 4 Update 1 has just been re-released: We’ve released a new version of ESX 4.0 Update 1 that resolves the issue with the ESX 4.0 Update 1 install failing, timing out and resulting in the host entering an usable state. The new version is called ESX 4.0 Update 1A. You can find the new version on VMware Downloads. For [...]
For those like me who see different types of Arrays daily it is hard to keep up with all the specific settings that need to be configured. Especially when we are talking about enterprise level storage there are several dependencies and requirements. One of the settings that is often overlooked on EMC DMX storage is the SPC-2 bit. I already [...]
