Category: VMware

Quickly add multiple lines to a vmx file

On a customer site I had to add multiple lines (CPU mask)to more than 30 virtual machines configuration files (vmx). Of course you can vi to every vmx file and add the lines, but this consumes a lot of time! So I search for a easier (less time consuming) option. The method I found is […]

Wednesday May 12th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

AMD introduces 12-core CPU

Today I read a blog on the website of AMD and saw that the introduced the first 12-core cpu. For the VMware community this is a great improvement. More cores in a server is better performance! To bad VMware adjusted there license model to number of cores rather than uses CPU sockets. The price isn’t […]

Monday March 29th, 2010 in VMware | No Comments »

VCP 4

After a couple of reschedules, yesterday was finally the day of my VCP4 exam. Although I’m teaching a VMware vSphere 4 course for a couple of months now, I did not have the time to plan the exam. But yesterdag at 10 a clock in the morning I did the exam in ‘s Hertogenbosch. I […]

Friday March 12th, 2010 in VMware | 4 Comments »

Single Sign On Novell Client for VMware View

If you use the Novell on a Widows Virtual Machine that’s going to be used for VMware View, you don’t want your user to login twice. First for VMware View and after that for the Novell Client. If you only use a Windows Client this is done by VMware View. For Novell we have to […]

Monday January 25th, 2010 in Novell, VMware | No Comments »

VMware vSphere training

This week, for the first time, I gave a course about managing en configuring a VMware vSphere enviroment. Almost every aspect of vSphere was addressed in this course, oa: vCenter (Linked Mode) Distributed Switches Fault Tolerance VMotion High Availability Dynamic Resource Scheduler Private VLAN’s Storage Plugin (including multipath for ISCSI) Host Profiles Snapshots Template and […]

Thursday November 19th, 2009 in VMware | 2 Comments »