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Updated: Determining VMware Build Numbers for several VMware Products

Edwin Weijdema — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:55:50 +0000

While I was updating the Determining VMware vCenter and ESX Build Numbers post I thought I would semi-automate the updating of the post with new build numbers for new releases, while working on it I started too fill an excel sheet and ended up with an excel sheet with the following products and build numbers [...]

Add additional drivers to ESXi

Erik Scholten — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:01:45 +0000

Last week I have been struggling with the installation of a vSphere 4 infrastructure on Dell hardware at a Belgium client site. I have done many many many VMware installations and encountered my fair share of issues but apart from the HP USB sticks the hardware never gave me this much trouble. It all started with a [...]

Scense 7 User Workspace Management adds extra value to VDI

Edwin Weijdema — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:28:36 +0000

Today Scense launched version 7 of their User Workspace management. If you are going to do a full blown VDI install. A product like Scense will give the VDI implementation extra value to your users and easy management of the complete environment. Scense 7 simplifies management and distribution of the end-user workspace within virtual and physical [...]

Reset the password on a Dell EqualLogic SAN

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:01:31 +0000

The last few months we where asked several times to reset a password set on the main account for Dell EqualLogic storage, also known as the grpadmin account. If you really don’t know the password set on the grpadmin but still have physical access to it you can start a recovery procedure to reset the grpadmin [...]

VKernel Capacity View

Erik Scholten — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:46:12 +0000

Last Wednesday VKernel released a new free tool which delivers capacity alerts to the desktop. Capacity View provides quick visibility and alerting to the storage and server capacity issues in your VMware virtualized infrastructure. I downloaded the toolto give it a testdrive and it is very easy to setup, the download and install [...]

Life made easy – Dell EqualLogic storage swap

Erik Scholten — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:57:52 +0000

When it comes to storage, the EqualLogic PS-series amazes me every time. Last Tuesday I was at a client site investigating performance issues but when I opened SANHQ and the web interface on the PS 6000E one thing stood out. The performance issues were not caused by the storage device. The PS 6000E is hosting 12 [...]

VMware to acquire RTO Software

Anne Jan Elsinga — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:40:51 +0000

VMware really wants to get a piece of the desktop market. After acquiring and/or releasing products for desktop management (VMware View and ThinApp) VMware announced at VMworld ‘09 that they had an OEM agreement with RTO for Virtual Profiles. VMware wanted to integrate the product into VMware View, it’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure product. Now, almost a [...]

RES PowerFuse 2010 released

Arjan van 't Hoff — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:46:05 +0000

Yesterday RES Software announced the availability of the new version of their Workspace Management solution RES PowerFuse 2010. In our projects we often use RES PowerFuse as an additional tool to virtualize the last step within desktop virtualization. It simplifies the management of the virtual desktops and enables a fully roamed environment for end users. In [...]

VMware View 4.0.1 released

Erik Scholten — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:35:05 +0000

VMware has just released the new 4.0.1 version of their VMware View VDI suite. VMware View 4.0.1 is a maintenance release that fixes some known issues in the previous releases. So, what’s new in version 4.0.1? Support for vCenter 2.5 Update 6 and ESX 3.5 Update 5; Enhancements to the PCoIP Display Protocol. PCoIP now supports the following features: Virtual [...]

Palo Alto plane crash causes power outage, VMware Support still available.

Erik Scholten — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:38:03 +0000

According to news reports a small plane has crashed in Palo Alto this morning, causing a power outage. At 7:50 AM, shortly after take-off a small plane crashed into the power lines and exploded on impact, killing all three people onboard which were all employees at Tesla Motors. The power outage caused a [...]