VKernel just released Capacity Analyzer 3.0. In addition to showing bottlenecks in hosts, clusters, and resource pools, it now shows bottlenecks in VMs — both inside and outside of VMs. Even small environments have hundreds of VMs, causing ongoing monitoring and finding problems in each individual VM to be very time consuming.

Capacity [...]

A couple of months ago Veeam acquired nworks. Nworks is known for its agentless connectors for managing an VMware ESX (also ESXi !!) environment in SCOM and HP Operations Manager (Openview). Veeam just released version 4.0 of the management connectors.

Nworks is one of the few connectors which integrates with SCOM & [...]

Lefthand Networks – John Spiers

John Spiers co-founder of Lefthand Networks (LHN) elaborated about Virtual SAN’s in the Virtual Data Center. He started to mention the acquisition of Lefthand Networks by HP and showing a HP branded presentation. LHN was founded in 1999 and it was then they started selling ISCSI-based storage, even before the [...]

Opening

Victor van den Berg opened the 2008 Dutch VMUG meeting by welcoming the crowd. With over 600 attendees a sold out event again. Victor showed some statistics about the VMUG activities and web site usage over the past year.

Keynote

Richard Garsthagen continued with the keynote, in which he [...]

VMware released VMware View 3, a new product? Yes and no, the number tells us it’s version 3, but the name is new. Let’s examine that. VMware View is a VDI product and it does offline and online desktops/laptops, maybe you recall two previous products of VMware: ACE (manager) – offline [...]