vSphere is out on the market for about a week now and the blogosphere was already actively releasing all kinds of information about VMware’s next-gen “Cloud Operating System”.

I‘ve been reading quite a lot and made a list for myself with articles that I found most interesting concerning VMware vSphere 4.0 and I would like to share it with you.
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vExpert is the buzz word in the blogging-scene at the moment. Everybody is (quietly/modestly) hyping themselves to get nominated as possible VMware vExpert. But I was following John Troyer on Twitter and while talking to Sven he said :

“vExpert nomination is also application form. Don’t make others do the work for you, lazy bum! Nominate yourself. You know better than others what you’ve been up to.”

So everybody who think he’s been active enough in the VMware community by helping customers implement VMware, spread the word about VMware, helped users in the VMware communities with their problems: sign yourself up!

Check out more info about the vExpert nominations (including application form) here:

http://www.vmware.com/communities/vexpert/

According to Thomas Koetzing XenApp 5.0 will be released the 10th of September (and my hunch is that the software will be available even earlier!) and will also be available for Windows Server 2003! Citrix always claimed that XenApp 5.0 would only be available on Windows Server 2008 and XenApp 4.5 would stay under development for Windows Server 2003. But Citrix came to their senses and realized that forcing their customers to move to W2K8 was not the way.

So now the question is which OS are you going to choose? That’s something you can only decide when you know what’s new and which features will or will not work on a certain OS.

Some new features (compared to CPS4.5) that are available both on W2K8 and W2K3: 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)
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