This is for our dutch readers:

Kun je helaas niet naar VMWorld in Las Vegas dit jaar? Kom dan naar Zeist op 2 oktober, daar doen we VMWorld dunnetjes over!
QNH Business Integration organiseert het “VMWorld 2008 in vogelvlucht” event. Daar worden de laatste nieuwtjes van VMware toegelicht, er zal een demo worden gegeven, een discussieronde worden gehouden en er zal Las Vegas-style eten klaar staan!

Donderdag 2 oktober ben je vanaf 16:00 welkom. Het event is gratis.

Schrijf je hier in.

If you’re attending VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas, you can register for a party Double-Take is organizing on Tuesday September 16th.

Release your inner Irishman! You’re invited to the Double-Take® Software Customer Appreciation Party Featuring Cluster-Funk

We can’t promise the next Aer Lingus flight to the Emerald Isle – but we can promise a rockin’ good time at the finest Irish pub in Las Vegas! Join Double-Take Software for our first annual VMworld customer (and wannabe customer) appreciation party featuring Cluster-Funk, the Double-Take Software band.

Register now.

OK, I must admit it has nothing to do with virtualization as such, but we all use a kind of database to store our configs and reporting data. In that light it’s important to know that Microsoft has released another one of their flagships namely SQL 2008. I must emphasize that little of the products we use are yet supported with this version but that will not take long so we soon will see that support. So it’s better to be prepared.

More information can be found here

Yesterday and today my colleague Rob Mokkink and I were getting very negative feelings towards the VizionCore vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup products, but like often, the problem existed behind the keyboard. But we prefer to call it an “undescribed feature” of these products.

We downloaded the latest versions of both products to see which product would fit best in our current environment and connecting to the Virtual Center servers went flawless but with neither of the 2 products we could connect to our ESX hosts. Errors that occured were errors that nobody experienced before, according to the product support forums. Read the rest of this entry »

Veeam just released the Veeam Monitor 3.0 beta which is used to monitor your VMWare Virtual Infrastructure environment.

New features:

- Multiple new alarm sources(VCenter events, VM Heartbeat, VM State and more)
- Alarm modeling & testing(use your event history to see how Veeam Monitor reacts)
- Trend Reporting (learn from your reports) Read the rest of this entry »

4Sysops is doing a good job on writing about application virtualization. The latest article is about disadvantages of application virtualization (after writing about the advantages). It depends on what product you use for virtualizing your applications, but I have to disagree on some points he mentions: Read the rest of this entry »

I haven’t tried it myself but a costumer of mine told me that he installed ESX 3.5Update2 from a SATA CDROM drive, where previous he would have needed a normal ATAPI CDROM drive. This is great news for everyone who want to use / try ESX for a change. What a bit bothers me that I haven’t read this in any changelog so are there more undocumented features ?

After VMWare’s announcements about them raising the prices Citrix was to be expected to do the same.

Today I got an e-mail from our Citrix distributor CDG that pricing of the entire Citrix portfolio will go up with 10% starting the 1st of September 2008. This only counts for Read the rest of this entry »