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Alex Muetstege — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:25:12 +0000

The VMUG is a pretty well known club. If you are just a virtualization enthusiast, a VMware fan or one of those nerdy bloggers, you all know the VMUG. Every country has it’s own instance of the VMUG and every now and then there is a gathering with all the nerds, enthusiasts and bloggers [...]

by Alex Muetstege

The pRoad to vExpert

Edwin Weijdema — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:27:00 +0000

I often get several questions regarding how I started in IT, how I became an Enterprise Architect, how did I get where I am nowadays, what did you do in the past years and what my advice would be if someone wanted to get a job like mine. For the VMTN vExpert Spotlight I answered [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Demo Day

Sander Martijn — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:27:33 +0000

Red Hat Benelux is organizing a demo day for their virtualisation solution “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization”. During this day they will present the latest news, present the road-map and future releases. Also on the program is a demo of RHEV and the presentation of a customer case. Their will be Red Hat experts present for [...]

by Sander Martijn

Trend Micro Deep Security 8.0 SP1 released

Anne Jan Elsinga — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:18:06 +0000

Last Friday Trend Micro released Deep Security 8.0 Service Pack 1. The most significant changes in SP1 are: On Demand scan agent based anti-malware on Linux. Supported versions are Red Hat Linux 5, 6 (64 bit only), Suse Linux 10, 11 (32 and 64bit) Protecting ESX 4.1/ESXi 4.1 hosts with Deep Security 8.Deep Security can [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

VMware announces View 5.1

Edwin Weijdema — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:44:31 +0000

VMware announced today that VMware View 5.1 will be available Q2 2012. Several new features and benefits will be included, like a good security enhancement to add two-factor authentication through Radius integration. Also the whole rewritten USB implementation rocks. VMware View 5.1 Features and Benefits: Enhancements and new features in VMware View 5.1 include: [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Updated: Build numbers database

Anne Jan Elsinga — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:07:31 +0000

It is time for an updated version of our build numbers database. Besides adding the new build numbers I also ‘repaired’ some errors. If you think you’re missing products or build numbers, please leave a comment below. I’ll do my best to add them to the list.

by Anne Jan Elsinga

MigrationWiz: E-mail migration to the cloud

Sander Martijn — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:07:47 +0000

For a recent customers I have been working on migrating e-mail from several completely separated e- mail infrastructures to one Office 365 environment. To achieve this the customer has chosen to use a product called MigrationWiz. This product is offered as a web based service/cloud solution. With MigrationWiz you setup a connection to both a [...]

by Sander Martijn

VMGuru.nl prolongues the vExpert status in 2012

Alex Muetstege — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:36:34 +0000

The word is out! The judges have decided and we here at VMGuru.nl are very happy to conclude that Edwin, Erik and myself can call ourselves vExpert 2012 again! This year, the process was a bit different, as VMware decided that vExperts can be appointed in three new categories: Evangelist Path: The Evangelist Path includes [...]

by Alex Muetstege

Update: Storage optimization with Atlantis

Erik Scholten — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:36:08 +0000

Since my article on ‘Storage Optimization with Atlantis‘ on April 3rd, I’ve been in contact with Atlantis and got some additional information I would like to share with you. First of all, in the article it says the following: Another point of interest is, does Atlantis live up to the promises made regarding the alleged [...]

by Erik Scholten

A new entry-level FlexPod is born

Erik Scholten — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:22:49 +0000

NetApp and Cisco have announced an extension to their joint FlexPod solution with a package which better suits smaller companies. The current FlexPod solution consists of a Cisco UCS server platform and a Cisco network infrastructure combined with a NetApp FAS32xx or 62xx storage solution. It’s a great solution but it is quite expensive for [...]

by Erik Scholten