Like every year the Dutch VMUG will be held on December 10th in Nieuwegein. And also like every year the agenda is packed with high quality sessions. These well known Dutch bloggers will all do a great presentation: www.run-virtual.com (Richard) yellow-bricks.com (Duncan) frankdenneman.nl (Frank) www.gabesvirtualworld.com (Gabrie) www.ntpro.nl (Eric Sloof) And of course we have some […]
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Notes from the Partner Exchange day
The partner day at VMworld is not the most exciting day for the techies amongst us, it is mostly about sales and the big announcements are usually made in the Tuesday keynote. So it started with registration and getting the bag and meeting a lot of people from the communities, fellow bloggers and of course […]
Snapshot fails with incorrect CID info in the VDMK file
Just before I was heading home, my colleague asked me to assist with a VM he couldn’t power on anymore. Seemed a customer had tried to commit a snapshot and the job timed out. The customer then tried some other things and suddenly the VM was down. While trying to power on, there was an […]
Virtualizing a domain controller, how hard can it be?
For an upcoming project I was preparing to P2V a domain controller and found a lot of “info” on this subject which got me thinking. Everybody is talking about all the dangers related to P2V-ing a domain controller but let’s be honest, when you look closely at the problems most people are talking about, are […]
Memory management and compression in vSphere 4.1
With vSphere 4.1, VMware released a great new feature called Memory compression. At first, after reading the release notes I thought memory compression was just one step before swapping to disk would occur. However, after reading the whitepaper “Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX 4” I learned some more details I want to share […]