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 »