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Memory management and compression in vSphere 4.1

Gabrie van Zanten — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:28:36 +0000

With vSphere 4.1, VMware released a great new feature called Memory compression. At first, after reading the release notes I thought memory compression was just one step before swapping to disk would...

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Setting logfile location, swap file, SNMP and vmkcore partition in ESXi

Gabrie van Zanten — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:23:33 +0000

With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this...

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VMware vSphere 4.1 released – What’s new?

Gabrie van Zanten — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:55:26 +0000

As many of you expected, the new VMware vSphere version is called VMware vSphere 4.1. The hints have been clear these past few weeks and today it became official. Today was the official release and...

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First vSphere Plugin for WordPress! by Nicholas Weaver

Gabrie van Zanten — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:31:18 +0000

On my blog, on the right hand, the last widget on the page is called “Home Lab” and shows the current state of my ESX lab at home. This WordPress plugin is written by Nicholas Weaver. Its...

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[RUMOR] VMware to buy Novell?

Gabrie van Zanten — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:24:17 +0000

This week I’ve had some questions from people on how this “Strategic Partnership” between Novell and VMware, could be the first step to VMware buying Novell or a number of products from Novell. This...

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Must have apps for the iPad

Gabrie van Zanten — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:14:46 +0000

You probably wonder what has gotten in to me, iPad postings have nothing to do with virtualization. Yes you’re right, but lately I see so many tweets of people in the virtualization community...

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Interview with Matt McSpirit – Partner technology advisor at Microsoft UK

Gabrie van Zanten — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:33:29 +0000

Matt McSpirit is a Partner technology Advisor, who works with Microsoft Partners in the UK, enabling them to build practices around Microsoft Virtualization and Management Technologies. Matt’s role...

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How to supply resources for Citrix XenApp on VMware?

Gabrie van Zanten — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:00:54 +0000

I bet many of you that are virtualizing Citrix XenApp, have read the Project VRC whitepapers and want to implement their best practices. Especially in small environments however, it can be a headache...

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VMware Data Recovery 1.2 released

Gabrie van Zanten — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:51:15 +0000

Because of the news of the release of update 2 for VMware ESX 4.0, you may have missed the news about the release of VMware Data Recovery 1.2 on June 10th. The vDR team announceses it with great...

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Awarded VMware vExpert 2010

Gabrie van Zanten — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:38:53 +0000

Friday night I was very pleased to find an e-mail from John Troyer in my mailbox, starting with “I am pleased to announce that you have been designated as a VMware vExpert 2010 and I invite you to...

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