Gerben's Blog on Virtualization

  Arnold Veenema a colleague of mine wrote an interesting item on his website about how to create your own bootable USB stick with ESXi (Previous called ESX 3i) using the download of the ESXi installable ISO-image. In twelve easy steps you will be

During the Dutch VMUG Meeting in December 2007 the VMUG team announced that it would organize smaller meetings focussing a specific subject. The first meeting of this kind will be held on Thursday June 5, 2008 at NetApp. Important! To attend you will

The VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) on VMware Infrastructure 3 is an advanced certification developed for design architects of VMware enterprise deployments. There are four core validation components to achieve VCDX. (1) Must be certified as a

It was announced earlier and I showed some pictures in an entry some time ago, but Tuesday it was announced at Microsofts Management Summit (MMS) 2008 by Bob Muglia during one of the keynotes: SCVMM 2008 will manage a heterogenous virtual datacenter.

Last Tuesday I read about this announcement and while reading I got this feeling there could be something wrong about this message. What was I right. Thanks guys for the pratical joke. I had a good laugh... Here is the link at virtualization.com agai

This week VMware announced their public beta program for VMware Workstation version 6.5 and VMware ACE 2.5. With the release of these BETA products VMware also introduced a new Beta Portal for these two products (click on the picture for the link to

 Today I was noticed that VMware Lifecycle Manager (LCM) 1.0 (build 360) is available for evaluation download (60 days evaluation). VMware Lifecycle Manager is the rebranded Dunes VSO/Lifecycle product which was acquired through the acquisition of Du

This evening I attended a company session hosted by NetApp in their office in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands. It was quit a trip, due to all sorts of reasons I decided to go by train. At first I was somewhat sceptic about going by train, but by the t

Microsoft Presspass (microsoft.com): Microsoft Corp. today announced its intended acquisition of Kidaro, a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for enterprises. In combining Kidaro’s virtualization technology with its suite of deskt