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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
RVTools 3.4 released

RVTools 3.4 released

What is RVTools? RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.0, ESX Server 4.0, VirtualCenter 4.1, ESX Server 4.1, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance or ESX Server 5. RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics,…

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9 November 2012: 18th Belgium VMUG Meeting

9 November 2012: 18th Belgium VMUG Meeting

VMUG Belgium posted the agenda for their upcoming event and again it looks amazing. The agenda of this meeting: 8u00 – Registration and Coffee 9u00 – Welcome (Erik Schils) 9u15 – Protecting vCenter (Gert van Gorp, Raido) 9u45 – Super-Fast Agentless Recovery of Objects (file, email, table…) from VMDK Thanks to Symantec V-Ray Patented Technology (Kim Apers, Symantec) 10u15 – Break 10u35 – PCoIP: Working Across the Entire Enterprise (Scott Murnan, Teradici) 11u15 – Parallel tracks Track 1: Are You…

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New Fling: Vmss2core by VMware Labs

New Fling: Vmss2core by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called Vmss2core Vmss2core. The download is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and the total size is about 5MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Vmss2core is a tool to convert VMware checkpoint state files into formats that third party debugger tools understand. It can handle both suspend (.vmss) and snapshot (.vmsn) checkpoint state files (hereafter referred to as a ‘vmss file’) as well as both monolithic and non-monolithic (separate .vmem file)…

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New book by VMware: Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 5.0

New book by VMware: Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 5.0

VMware released a new book regarding storage design and the implementation in a vSphere 5. environment. This book will explain in about 700 pages the know how about storage. You can order it now over at Pearson or Amazon! The more important VMware virtualized infrastructure becomes, the more important virtualization storage becomes. Virtualization storage planning and management is complex, and it’s been almost impossible to find authoritative guidance – until now. In Storage Implementation in vSphere 5.0, one of VMware’s…

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Free Training: VMware vSphere: What’s New 5.1

Free Training: VMware vSphere: What’s New 5.1

VMware announced a FREE online training course called “VMware vSphere: What’s New [5.1]” with the 5.1 release. This course is a self-paced course which lasts 1 hour and it’s available through myLearn training. This e-learning course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server 5.1 and VMware ESXi 5.1. By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding and should be able to implement the following new functions and features of VMware vSphere 5.1. Objectives Compute and Storage Support…

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