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Sure, you’ve read about the Update 2 troubles. VMWare made a huge mistake by releasing something with trial-code in it, and the impact can be huge when put into production but there’s what’s bugging me : the whole world is acting like the impact it has is catastrophic.

Virtualization.info started with the topic title ”VMWare mistake shuts down thousands of Virtual Infrastructures”, later on nuanced by “may shut down”. They also state that 95% of the Fortune 500 customers use VMWare and over 50% uses VMotion. Yeah, sure they do, but do you really think that administrators working at a Fortune 500 company think : “hey wow a new patch; it’s from VMWare so it’ll be good; let’s put it into production right now!” ?

Really, lots of people are acting like there are hundreds of thousands of virtual servers around the world that have been down and we should all stop using VMWare and switch to the “beautiful” Hyper-V or XenServer solution but: Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »

One of the things you have to be carefull within a Virtual Infrastructure environment, just as in every other environment by the way, is how your LUNs are balanced over the HBA’s. Especially when you have a pretty dynamic infrastructure you might not always pay attention to this.

My colleague Rob Mokkink has made a pretty nice powershell script that balances LUN’s on the different HBA’s.

What it does :
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Last week VMWare released the long expected Update 2 for the VMWare 3 Infrastructure products. Besides cool new features like Hot-cloning VM’s, W2K8 Guest support, Storage VMotion and VSS quiescing support, one of the new features is the so called EVC.

This is introduced as just another feature in the VMWare Infrastructure product line but this should not be taken lightly. EVC stands for Enhanced VMotion Capability and it is a technology which Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday VMWare announched that founder and CEO of VMWare Diane Greene is replaced immediately by ex-Microsoft executive Paul Maritz. It needs to be said that Paul Maritz, wasn’t working at Microsoft for over 8 years, but nevertheless it’s an interesting move.

For those who keep close track on VMWare’s public activities and announcements it’s known that the CEO of EMC and the CEO of VMWare had some differences in opinion [understatement].

The direct effect at this point is Read the rest of this entry »