Gerben's Blog on Virtualization

VMware Labmanager Pricing changed
From virtualization.info: So far VMware sold its virtual lab automation product, Lab Manager, charging the customers for the server product and each agent installed inside the ESX hosts. Such model has been completely changed in mid-May as virtualiz
Release: VMware Stage Manager 1.0
 Yesterday VMware announced the General Availability of her product VMware Stage Manager. VMware Stage Manager is a product intended to control an application during the shift from staging into production. VMware Stage Manager solves the problem of s
VMworld Europe 2009 - on Feb 24-26 2009
Vmware is already busy planning the second VMworld Europe, the event will be held on Feb 24-26 2009 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes . That is the same location as the previous VMworld Europe event in 2008. If you want to be kept informed abou
Get full control over your ESXi Server
Richard Garsthagen from VMware at www.run-virtual.com posted a nice article about ESXi and the ability to get full control over it. an excerpt from his post: As you probably know ESX 3i is the embedded version of ESX, mainly run from usb flash disks
Release: Xtravirt Virtual SAN (XVS)
The Xtravirt Virtual SAN (XVS) appliance for VMware ESX3 Server, is a free solution to provide the benefits of shared VMFS storage without the cost of a SAN – this allows the utilisation of otherwise unused local storage in the ESX server to facilita
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VMware announces availability of new products and bundles
Today I received an email from VMware in which the company made some announcements about the general availability of two products and a new softwarebundle. On May 12, 2008, the company announced VMware Stage Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMw
How to Create Your Own Bootable ESXi USB Stick
  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
VMUG (NL) Meeting at NetApp
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
VMware announces the VCDX Certification
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