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New free tool Snapshot Explorer added to Foglight for Virtualization toolkit

Edwin Weijdema — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:02:18 +0000

Snapshot Explorer completes Dell’s Free Utility Toolbox for Virtual Machine Administrators. Detect all snapshots, including orphaned snapshots, to avoid problems with performance and capacity with this 6th utility which got added today! Foglight for Virtualization was formerly know under the name vOPS Server Explorer from vKernel. With the latest tool Snapshot explorer you can eliminate [...]

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posted in Third party product(s) by Edwin Weijdema

Veeam Back-up & Replication v7

Erik Scholten — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:49:02 +0000

Today Veeam announced 2 more secret features of their new and improved version of Veeam Backup & Replication, version v7.0. The ‘Back-up from storage snapshots’ and ‘Build-in WAN Acceleration’ features now complete the list of 9 new features. The new version now contains the following new features, check it out: Enhanced Backup & Recovery for vCloud Director; [...]

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posted in Third party product(s) by Erik Scholten

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Performance and Best Practices and 3D graphics

Erik Scholten — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:39:12 +0000

At VMGuru.nl we’ve done a lot of articles on VDI performance and best practices. Recently I’ve done an article on ‘How to improve VMware View video performance‘ and Edwin did an article on ‘Boosting Google maps and video with VMware View‘. Researching the possibilities and changes with Horizon View 5.2, Eric Sloof pointed me to [...]

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posted in Best Practices by Erik Scholten

Looking for a reliable hypervisor?

Erik Scholten — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:46:45 +0000

Every time a vendor releases a new hypervisor, it’s always more reliable and stable than all the previous versions and certainly better than the competition. But was the previous version all that bad? Of course with the addition of more and more advanced features it becomes more and more difficult to create a reliable and [...]

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posted in ESX/ESXi by Erik Scholten

vSphere 5 memory management explained (part 2)

Erik Scholten — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:03:04 +0000

As I said earlier this week, VMware memory management is still a topic which a lot of VMware administrators don’t understand. Tuesday I discussed the virtual machine memory allocation graphs. Today we will deal with VMware vSphere uses transparent page sharing (TPS), memory compression, host swapping and ballooning. VMware ESXi, a crucial component of VMware [...]

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posted in ESX/ESXi by Erik Scholten

vSphere 5 memory management explained (part 1)

Erik Scholten — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:56:30 +0000

VMware memory management is still a topic which a lot of VMware administrators don’t understand. I often come across people who have no idea when VMware vSphere uses transparent page sharing (TPS), memory compression, host swapping or ballooning. They even mention disabling or removing the ballooning driver without knowing why. I also meet a lot of [...]

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posted in ESX/ESXi by Erik Scholten

Hyper-V? Not in my datacenter… (continued)

Erik Scholten — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:47:45 +0000

In 2008 I wrote an article named “Hyper-V, not in my datacenter!” which was based on Hyper-V version 1. In 2009 I wrote an article named “Hyper-V, the laughter continues” and “ESX vs Hyper-V mythbusting myth” which was based on Hyper-V version 2. Microsoft promised/warned us that with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V version 3 this [...]

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posted in Hyper-V by Erik Scholten

View Pool Manager

Erik Scholten — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:54:31 +0000

Yesterday I was busy trying some things in my VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment and after a while I got tired of repeating the same tasks on different desktop pools over and over again. Looking for a way to make things easier I came across the View Pool Manager which is a VMware Fling that [...]

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posted in View by Erik Scholten

Using Serial Ports in a VMware Environment

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:50:11 +0000

While pursuing the 100% virtual mark you once in a while run into trouble with legacy hardware where there is hardware directly attached to the physical server you are going to virtualize. If it is USB equipment you can use USB Anywhere devices to make it happen, but if it is serial port connected equipment [...]

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posted in Hardware by Edwin Weijdema

Multi-hypervisor management with VMware vCenter

Sander Martijn — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:59:02 +0000

Shortly after the release of vCenter 5.1, VMware released “vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0″. With this product you as an administrator are able to manage third party hypervisors like Microsoft’s Hyper-V from within your vCenter installment. This will give companies more flexibility over what hypervisors they are able to use and thus use the hypervisor they need [...]

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posted in Hyper-V by Sander Martijn