Archive for the ‘Virtual IEF’ Category
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
I made a simple example script using the VMware PowerCLI that can be used to do the post installation configuration of a VMware ESX 4 server. This script does the following things:
- Connect to VMware ESX server
- Set the SC memory to 800MB
- Creates vSwitch2 and add vmnic2 ...
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I get a lot of questions about the tools and scripts i use as consultant to check VMware environments. I made a list with tools and scripts i use on a regular basis:
tools
description
VMware HealthAnalyzer
Appliance or ThinApp package to check the VMware environment. ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
To get your HP EVA storage system and VMware ESX hosts storage balances you get a better performance. Here are some Best practices.
The VMware vSphere and the HP EVA 4×00, 6×00 and 8×00 series are ALUA compliant. ALUA compliant means in simple words that it is not needed to manually ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
VMware released last week the desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC).
When validating VMware View™ designs it is important to simulate real world usage as closely as possible. The Desktop Reference Architecture Workload SImulator (RAWC) can be used to simulate a user workload in a typical Microsoft Windows® desktop ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
The vSphere Quick Start guide is released and available from Amazon. This guide is written by 6 virtualization guru’s named:
- Duncan Epping
- Alan Renouf
- Dave Mishchenko
- Bernie Baker
- Thomas Bryant
- Stewart Radnidge
The book summary from Amazon:
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide continues from an idea started several years ...
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
The long awaited VMware View with the PCoIP protocol has landed and is available for download.
VMware View 4.0 includes the following new features:
VMware View with PCoIP – PCoIP provides an optimized desktop experience for the delivery of the entire desktop environment including applications, images, audio, and video content for a ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Today when i woke up there where a lot of VMware updates available (to much to handle for one day ). I did an upgrade of my lab environment, it went smooth with any issues. VMware did a great job with the new improvements! Here’s a list of ...
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
After attending the VMware View 4 Talkshoe podcast the following information about the announced VMware View 4 was discussed:
VM’s per core:
VM’s per core, In VMware View 3 the number was 6-9 VM’s per core, now in View 4 with for example the Intel Nehalem processors you can get to ...
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Today VMware has View 4 announced. VMware View 4 is supported on VMware vSphere and has a new protocol named PCoIP (View 3 uses RDP).
Here’s a list of new and/or improved features:
FEATURE
NEW/IMPROVED
DESCRIPTION
Quad monitor support
New
Support 32-bit color with 1920 x 1200 display resolution and up to 4 monitors simultaneously.Benefit: True multiple ...
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
On 11 December 2009 the 5th Dutch VMUG event will be held. It is a technical one day event about virtualization. Last year there were more than 600 visitors. Here’s a list in my opinion of must see presentations:
- Managing VMware vSphere 4 m.b.v. de Virtualization EcoShell by Eric Sloof ...
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