After the VCDX defenses Boston I had a chat with Craig Risinger, also known as 006 . We discussed some of the things we’d seen on the panels and came to the conclusion that it wouldn’t hurt to reiterate some of the tips we’ve given in the past. It’s OK to change your actual project documents. See the following points [...]

There is something I always wanted to know and that is how VMotion(yes I am using the old school name on purpose) came to life. After some research on the internet and even on the internal websites I noticed that there are hardly any details to be found. Now this might be because the story isn’t as exciting as we [...]

I was looking into the new metrics in esxtop and was wondering if I could plot them easily on my Mac. Unfortunately (or fortunately) there is no MS PerfMon available native to do this. But VMware released a cool tool called esxplot which more or less does the same thing. I downloaded it and tried to run it. After running [...]

During my flight from Boston back to the Netherlands I listened to the VMworld esxtop session “Troubleshooting using ESXTOP for Advanced Users, TA6720“. As always an excellent session with a lot of in-depth info. Most of it was already documented, however there were a couple of key points that I hadn’t documented yet. I just added those to my esxtop [...]

I have written multiple articles(1, 2, 3, 4) on this topic so hopefully by now everyone knows that Large Pages are not shared by TPS. However when there is contention the large pages will be broken up in small pages and those will be shared based on the outcome of the TPS algorythm. Something I have always wondered and discussed [...]

At a customer this week, where BitLocker To Go is mandatory on Windows 7 machines, we discovered a problem encrypting USB memory sticks (flash drives). With the GPO settings at the customer, BitLocker To Go detects when a removable disk is plugged in to the machine, and prompts the user to either encrypt the drive or mount it read-only. When [...]

The Dutch VMUG event has always been infamous for the massive amount of attendees and the excellent agenda. Of course the 2010 edition will be no different. The VMUG Team secured a great selection of speakers, and with roughly 700 attendees I guess you could say that it is a mini-VMworld. Just for those wondering who will be speaking and [...]