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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 3.3 released

RVTools 3.3 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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1 June 2012: FREE VMware User Group “The Blogger Edition” in Belgium

1 June 2012: FREE VMware User Group “The Blogger Edition” in Belgium

VMUG Belgium posted the agenda for their upcoming event and it looks amazing. This time the event is called “The Blogger Edition” and the main reason is because (almost) everyone who is coming has a famous blog. The agenda of this meeting: 8:15 – 9:00 Registrations 9:00 – 9:05 Welcome Erik Schils (VMUG Leader Belgium) 9:05 – 9:40 “VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat” – Gert Van Gorp 9:40 – 10:20 RAID types and alignment impact on VMware workloads – Erik Zandboer…

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vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide – public draft out now!

vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide – public draft out now!

It’s finally released: The vSphere 5.0 hardening guide, even tho it’s a draft version (final version somewhere around May). With the new release the document changed into a spreadsheet with easy sorting and filtering options. This is in my opinion a great improvement! The document is available on the VMware Communities. This is the public draft of the vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide. It is being posted to this Community in order to provide early access to interested parties, and…

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VMware vExpert 2012

VMware vExpert 2012

Today VMware announced the VMware vExpert 2012 results and I am very proud to say that I am on the list! I would like to thank the people at VMware for this chance. I am going to be honest about this, I didn’t even think I had a chance because of the fact that I started pretty late with getting this blog back online. I am looking forward working and communicating with some of the great people on the list….

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Fling update: vBenchmark 1.0.1 released

Fling update: vBenchmark 1.0.1 released

VMware released a small update for their vBenchmark fling, now bringing the version number to 1.0.1. What’s new? Added a checkbox to include or exclude vCenter license keys when submitting the data to the community repository The application now listens on port 443 (https), requests to port 80 will be automatically redirected to 443 The appliance will now prompt you to change the root password at first logon Fixed bugs that prevented some customers from proceeding to the dashboard when…

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