For me VMworld already started on Monday with the Partner Exchange and the TAM day. It started today with the keynote by, amongst other speakers, Pat Gelsinger and Sanjay Poonen. They talked about the strategy for VMware. Pat was saying that tech was breaking out of tech. Alan Renouf was, together with Pat Gelsinger, a …
Read MoreSummary Horizon Migration Tool helps you migrate from Citrix XenDesktop and Xen App to Horizon 7. This tool supports following scenarios: Migration from XenDesktop 7.6 and above to Horizon 7.2 Migration from XenApp 7.6 and above/6.0/6.5/5.0 to Horizon 7.2 The GUI wizard-based tool helps: Desktop Migration: Locate …
Read MoreToday VMworld 2017 started for me. Yesterday I flew in to Barcelona and got my badge and the backpack with, amongst other things, the water bottle and the shirt. Today is the partner exchange and the tam day. I had only sessins in the partner track scheduled. My first two sessions were about VMware Cloud on AWS. The …
Read MoreJust before VMworld Europe starts, VMware releases an update of the vSphere HTML5 webclient. Summary We will continue delivering this Fling on a regular basis even with the released supported version of the vSphere Client, so we hope that most of you will continue to use the Fling and update it weekly so that we can …
Read MoreVMworld Europe 2017 is almost there. Lots of interesting sessions to visit. I had to make some choices between VMware on AWS and Kubernetes/ containers related sessions as they were mostly at the same time. As my interest is at the moment with AWS and I'm also in process of achieving certifications on AWS, the sessions …
Read MoreSummary Welcome to VMware Horizon Toolbox 7.2! VMware Horizon Toolbox 7.2 is a Web portal that acts as an extension to View Administrator in VMware Horizon™ 6 or above. Read new Horizon Toolbox 2.0 Guide, 2.0 White paper, and this new blog Discover What’s New with VMware Horizon 6 Toolbox 2.0. Auditing Sessions: Shows …
Read MoreSummary HCIBench stands for "Hyper-converged Infrastructure Benchmark". It's essentially an automation wrapper around the popular and proven VDbench open source benchmark tool that makes it easier to automate testing across a HCI cluster. HCIbench aims to simplify and accelerate customer POC performance …
Read MoreSummary DRS Dump Insight is a service portal where users can upload drmdump files and it provides a summary of the DRS run, with a breakup of all the possible moves along with the changes in ESX hosts resource consumption before and after DRS run. Users can get answers to questions like: Why did DRS make a certain …
Read MoreSummary We will continue delivering this Fling on a regular basis even with the released supported version of the vSphere Client, so we hope that most of you will continue to use the Fling and update it weekly so that we can get your feedback about our direction. You can find a summary of changes in all the clients …
Read MoreVisualEsxtop is an enhanced version of resxtop and esxtop. VisualEsxtop can connect to VMware vCenter Server or ESX hosts, and display ESX server stats with a better user interface and more advanced features. Features Live connection to ESX host or vCenter Server Flexible way of batch output Load batch output and …
Read MoreSummary This is an Open Source fling. Find out about the VMware Open Source initiative. The vRealize Operations Export Tool allows users to both extract and export metrics and properties from vRealize Operations. The highly modular design of this tool allows almost any output format to be plugged in. Currently, output …
Read MoreThis year I will be attending DockerCon for the first time. My real interest in using containers, and specifically Docker started last year. I also followed two Docker courses. Last year DockerCon was not in Europe, so I very happy that this year I'm able to attend DockerCon in Kopenhagen. The event takes place in …
Read MoreThe VMware OS Optimization Tool helps optimize Windows 7/8/2008/2012/10 systems for use with VMware Horizon View. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. Since most Windows …
Read MoreThis year VMworld Europe will again be held in Barcelona, but unlike previous years it will not be in October but already in the second week of September. Just as last year, my employer made it possible for me to attend VMworld Europe. I have to finalize my schedule but as it available, I already started planning which …
Read MoreAs VMware vSphere DRS has become more widely adopted now, more and more users are interested in knowing how it works. They need more insights into DRS activity and actions. They want to know the value that DRS provides to their clusters. DRS Lens is an attempt to provide a UI-based solution to help understand DRS …
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