Because there’s a new blogger in town: http://www.digipulse.nl/ Edwin Houben is a Consultant SBC/Microsoft working for Ictivity, that’s right a colleague of mine. Add his blog to your bookmarks or RSS Reader!

On the Storage Nuts & Bolts Blog on the NetApp website there’s a sneakpreview on the Snapshot Manager for VI3 by NetApp. Here a couple of outtakes from the original article. Be sure to check the original article because there are also a couple of screenshots in there.
Although from the sound of it, it appears [...]

VMware just uploaded a whole bunch of patches for ESX 3.5:
ESX350-200802301-BG : Update to the bnx2 Driver
ESX350-200802303-SG : Security Update to the util-linux Package
ESX350-200802304-SG : Security Update to the Perl Package
ESX350-200802305-SG : Security Update to the openssl Package
ESX350-200802306-BG : VMware ESX Server 3.5, Patch ESX350-200802306-BG: Daylight Saving Time Update
ESX350-200802401-BG : Updates to vmware-hostd
ESX350-200802403-BG : Improved Statistics Collection for Support Scripts, Fix for [...]

Eric Sloof just pointed us out to the Blog on the VMware website about the upcoming Powershell Toolkit Beta. I have been playing around with this toolkit for a while but had a hard time figuring out how to actually make useful scripts. The PDF that was also released has some cool examples of useful [...]

Yeah, this is the one I’ve been waiting for a 9″ Asus Eee PC. The 7″ is a cool device, but lacks a decent screen resolution. This is probably fixed with the 9″. Asus has also added a 12GB flash disk instead of a 8GB flash disk. I really need to pick one up as [...]

It’s been a weird couple of days. I arrived in Cannes with the flu. Especially Monday, but also Tuesday, I wasn’t in top condition to say the least. Same goes for my cellphone which for some reason decided to quit on me, apologies to the people that tried to reach me and got my voice [...]

In a couple of hours my colleague Remco and I will be flying to VMworld, Cannes. I will be leaving my laptop at home so no blogs over the next couple of days! I want to spend as much time as possible gathering information/knowledge and making new virtual contacts!

VMware just announced VirtualCenter 2.0.2 update 3:
Resolved Issues include:
Virtual Machine Management Issues
PR:219126 - Virtual Machine Alarms Not Triggered This release fixes an issue where VirtualCenter alarms are not triggered when the alarm conditions are met.
PR:225357 - Host and Virtual Machine Alarms Stop Updating Over Time This release fixes an issue where some alarms that are [...]

For those attending the VMworld, the time table for the technical sessions is online! Check it out! I’m having a hard time picking which deep-dive sessions I will attend, there are so many to choose from!

Netapp just announced a new product “SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure”:
SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure enables customers to protect their VMware environments with automated data protection and recovery of their virtual machines. SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure dramatically reduces human error and increases server utilization for application workloads by eliminating the interruptions and performance impact caused by traditional [...]