Although this is documented on page 59 of the excellent Evaluators Guide I figured it wouldn’t hurt to write a tiny blog post. I found myself googling for it multiple times already with no succes, so there must be more people facing that “problem”. Below you can find the passwords of the vCloud Director Appliance and the embedded database, just [...]

A couple of weeks back I posted my session details for PEX. I just had a session added to my schedule which I wanted to inform you about. This session was originally hosted by no one less than Mike DiPetrillo. Chris Colotti and I have been asked to take over the session. Session 1262 (Wednesday 2/12 @ 12:30pm): DR of the Cloud and [...]

I think this will make you happy. VMware just released the vCloud Director virtual appliance. That means no more installing Red Hat, Oracle and vCloud Director. Just download the appliance and deploy it. On top of there is a great vCloud Cloud Director Evaluators Guide which will help you to evaluate the product. vCloud Director virtual appliance download (You will [...]

I am live at the Launch event in San Francisco with many other bloggers, journalists and analysts. It is the 12th of July, almost 09:00 PDT and Paul Maritz is about come up on stage to talk about the Cloud Infrastructure launch. This article will be update live during the event as we go. Paul Maritz is taking the stage… [...]

@Mike_Laverick asked a question on twitter today about something that is stated in the Cloud Computing with vCloud Director book. His question was, and no he is not dyslectic he only had 140 characters pg65. Order of storage tiers. Doesn’t that infer FC/SDD+VMFS is “race horse” and NFS “donkey”…??? Mike was referring to the following section in the book: SLA [...]

Book #24, As you hopefully know about a month ago my latest publication was released titled “Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director“. When I was visiting Palo Alto a week ago I met up with one of the co-authors and vCloud Security Expert Michael Haines. Michael managed to get a stack of books signed by the author of the foreword, [...]

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 [...]