Time to vote for your favorite bloggers
First of all: Happy new year and I wish you all a fantastic 2010! In this first post of the year on Virtualfuture, I want to bring the latest survey of Eric Siebert’s top 25 “VMware and virtualization...
View ArticlevSphere bug can bring down entire cluster (not fixed in Update1).
Last month I was on-site at one of my customers and experienced a major problem on the vSphere environment. We suddenly experienced about 150 virtual servers running on 16 hosts in 2 clusters (on the...
View ArticlevSphere cluster: max 4 ESX hosts per “location” because of HA limitations?
Not a lot of info is found when you Google for manually selecting/fixing the primary HA nodes in a VMware VI or vSphere environment. Of course Duncan Epping has a couple of extremely interesting posts...
View ArticleVRC: Hyper-V 2008R2, vSphere 4, XenServer 5.5 on Intel ‘Nehalem’ Xeon 5500
The “Project Virtual Reality Check” team just released a new whitepaper: “Hyper-V 2008R2, vSphere 4, XenServer 5.5 on Intel ‘Nehalem’ Xeon 5500“. “If you are looking for an independent advise and a...
View ArticleNetApp Rapid Cloning Utility 3.0 now available!
NetApp just announced the release of the Rapid Cloning utility (RCU): NetApp is proud to announce the release of the Rapid Cloning Utility 3.0. This release brings many new features to assist virtual...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 released, vMotion part of Standard edition.
VMware released vSphere 4.1 with a couple of new features like “Memory compression”, “Storage I/O Control” and much more. I’m not going to repeat all the information, because you can already read it...
View ArticleProject VRC: phase 3 – a must read!
Finally we’ve completed phase 3 of Project VRC. For the past months we’ve worked very hard and performed a lot of tests to compare VDI workloads and the results are very interesting, to say the least....
View ArticleDisappearing Virtual NIC & VMX has left the building
I know I’m not the first who noticed it, since this message is to be found in log files for years with ESX, but I still wanted to share this one: Especially when you’re seriously troubleshooting an...
View ArticleVMware View upgrade path – not so easy…
A customer is using VMware View 4.5 on ESX 4.1 and wants to upgrade to View 5.1.1 with ESX 5.0 U1. If you take a look at the following interoperability matrix, the upgrade path is not so easy: The...
View ArticleVMware View Desktop plugin for vSphere Web Client
Today I installed the VMware View Desktops Plug-in on the vSphere Web Client. This plugin is a Technical Preview included with Horizon View 5.2. After installing this plugin you can use the vSphere Web...
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