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Hyper-V removed from OpenStack

Erik Scholten — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:25:56 +0000

The new version of OpenStack, which will be released in Q2 of 2012, does not support Microsoft Hyper-V anymore. The developers have had enough with the buggy code. One of the developers of OpenStack has written a patch with which the Hyper-V code and support will be removed from the cloud platform. The patch has [...]

by Erik Scholten

Trend Micro Deep Security 8 available now

Erik Scholten — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:28:44 +0000

At VMworld last year Trend Micro already announced their new version Deep Security 8, but now it is finally available. Deep Security is specifically designed for virtual environments. Its agent-less architecture addresses AV storms, minimizes operational complexity of security and allows organizations to increase VM densities and accelerate virtualization and cloud adoption. Developed in close [...]

by Erik Scholten

RAID 5 and 6 support for VMware VSA

Erik Scholten — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:20:58 +0000

Yesterday VMware announced that it will be supporting RAID 5 and 6 with their Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). With the release of vSphere 5, VMware also released their VSA, a shared storage solution for the SMB market. VMware VSA uses the local storage in each ESXi server, presents it to the VSA appliance which in [...]

by Erik Scholten

Save the date: VMworld Europe 2012 Barcelona from 9-11 October

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:59:07 +0000

The date for VMworld Europe is now final. The 2012 edition will take place from Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 October in Barcelona. San Francisco August 27-30 Barcelona October 9-11 The event in Copenhagen last year was a great success. There were more than 200 breakout sessions, over 20 hands-on labs and more than 7,200 [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Supported Business Applications on the VMware Platform

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:13:51 +0000

More and more applications are supported on the VMware Platform, with the release of VMware vSphere 5 the boundaries of virtual machines have been expanded even more. Often we get questions about which applications are supported on the VMware virtual platform. There is a website page where you can search for specific applications and if [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Time to vote again, Top VMware and virtualization blogs 2012

Edwin Weijdema — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:06:02 +0000

It is that time of the year again, the last voting was over a year ago where we made it, thanks to you!, to the 13th place. Voting is now open again for the top VMware & virtualization blogs. It would be nice and a great honor to get us in the Top 10 this [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

New iSCSI software release by Starwind brings all new features

Alex Muetstege — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:17:01 +0000

Today we received the press release of the new Starwind iSCSI software with the all new VM Backup technology. Starwind is an innovative company and one of the first to offer an iSCSI initiator on the Microsoft Windows platform without a lot of hassle. Now, this product has come a long way since then and [...]

by Alex Muetstege

VMware vCloud Director design guidelines

Erik Scholten — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:00:46 +0000

After VMware vSphere and View, VMware vCloud Director is the next big thing to setup and customers start asking for it. But the problem is that the knowledge and available resources are limited. So for real life implementations of vCloud Director we have to rely on VMware employees to show us the ropes. First of [...]

by Erik Scholten

Review QNAP TS-459Pro II

Sander Martijn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:19:40 +0000

Recently QNAP gave us the opportunity to review their QNAP TS-459Pro II NAS solution. We gladly accepted this opportunity and we got the NAS shipped to us a few weeks ago. The TS-459Pro II is a NAS device that is aiming at the SMB market. QNAP also has bigger versions in the TS line that [...]

by Sander Martijn

VKernel vOps 4.5

Erik Scholten — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:15:08 +0000

On December 19th VKernel released version 4.5 of its vOps management software. vOps 4.5 addresses the increasing volume of routine virtual machine management tasks in virtualized environments. This increase is caused by the enormous growth in the number of virtual machines. Nowadays we provision many more virtual servers than we ever had physical ones because [...]

by Erik Scholten