Category: VMware

Upgrading my home vSphere 4 cluster to a vSphere5 cluster (Part 2)

In part 1 have have read how I upgraded my vCenter 4.1 server to vCenter 5.0. In this part I’m going to  upgrade update manager on the same server. Later on I’m going to use update manger to upgrade my 2 vSphere ESXi 4.1 server to vSphere ESXi 5. Again, the first step is to […]

Sunday August 28th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

Upgrading my home vSphere 4 cluster to a vSphere5 cluster (Part 1)

Today I had the first day of the vSphere5 what’s new training bij Eric Sloof. I went especially to his training because I know that he always gives a outstanding course. The first part of the day was about upgrading your vSphere4 and vCenter4 host to version 5. And because today VMware released vSphere 5 […]

Thursday August 25th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

My VCAP-DCD exam experience

Just a quick post before I go on a holiday. Today I did my VCAP410-DCD exam. After the VCAP410-DCA exam this was the most difficult exam I ever took. As with the VCAP410-DCA exam I needed the full 240 minutes for the exam. Gladly after finishing the 113 questions I had 15 minutes spare to […]

Friday August 5th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

Poor video performance Windows 2008 and Windows 7

In the early day’s (Windows 2003 and older) after the VMware tools where installed your video and mouse performance where dramatic improved. As of Windows 2008 and Windows 7 after the installation of the VMware tools, mouse performance is better. But video performance is still poor. If we look at the video adapter after the […]

Tuesday July 5th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »

vExpert 2011

Last Friday I received the following email from John Troyer: Dear Michael Wilmsen, We’re pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities. You’ve done work above and beyond, and we’re delighted to communicate more closely, to share resources, and to offer other […]

Monday July 4th, 2011 in VMware | No Comments »