As Mr Sloof already revealed VMworld Public Voting started today… I have submitted multiple sessions, some which are directly job related and others which are more community focused. As I was part of the voting committee for the Technology and Architecture track I know how many great sessions were submitted and how difficult it will be to get your session [...]

This is one of those days that you realize how quickly things can change… 3.5 years ago I worked for a small consultancy company in the south of the Netherlands. Today I work for the number 1 virtualization/cloud company in the world, VMware, and just published my 4th book with a 5th coming later this year. What a ride, what [...]

I just noticed that a new whitepaper was released and as the scoopmeister Eric Sloof hasn’t blogged about it yet I figured, he’s probably sleeping, I would blog about it. I just read the paper and it is a very good read and interesting to know that a single VM can actually saturate the bandwidth of a 10Gbps NIC. Also [...]

I’ve posted an overview of my homelab a while back and it changed a bit over the course of the last couple of months so I wanted to do an update of the article. Let me disclose first that Drobo was kind enough to provide me with a test-unit. Thanks Drobo! My Workstation which runs Windows 7 with VMware Workstation [...]