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From left to right – Duco Jaspars…. uhm forgot the rest, sorry! 😉

The VMUG 2010 surely was once again a great success. Here are some photos for you all to see:
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This time I joined a session with Compellent. I have known them for their smart storage arrays, which are able to move data between storage tiers to optimize speed of regularly used data.

I’m excited to see what they have come up with this year!
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Today Eric delived a great presentation on vSphere troubleshooting. All resources were touched: CPU, Memory, storage and networking. Read the rest of this entry »

The Dutch VMUG has kicked off! News flashes from the keynote in here!

750 guests, a new record! Exiting things going to happen today, a lot of interesting presentations! Read the rest of this entry »

Today is the day: I’ll be blogging live from the Dutch VMUG 2010! If you’re visiting, make sure to join me as I’ll be presenting as well in IBM sesison “Van Virtualisatie tot Cloud Computing: portfolio en praktijk” at 15:50.

After a very long wait, at last the ESXi supporting version of PHDvirtual Backup is here! Version 5.1 just went GA.

Finally PHDvirtual has got ESXi support for their backup product. I keep admiring them for their efforts: Because they solved problems years ago when nobody else could, their solution got dated as VMware finally integrated some almost vital backup features to their vSphere product.

Now PHDvirtual has done an almost complete rewrite of their product in order to modernize up to the standards of the vStorage API in vSphere.

Be sure to check out their solution!

This year the dutch VMUG event (see www.vmug.nl) is surely going to be a great success. Again! For the first time I’ll be there as a blogger. Even better, last week I had a nice discussion with someone at IBM. They welcomed me to deliver 20-30 minutes of their presentation at the VMUG2010 event!

So be sure to visit the VMUG 2010 event, and especially the 15:50 – 16:50 session “Van Virtualisatie tot Cloud Computing: portfolio en praktijk” because I’ll be presenting there, and it is going to be really interesting too! Read the rest of this entry »

VMware’s VMmark (I have also read the name being VMark though?) has been around for a long time. It is software which creates “tiles” of workload on a physical server using several virtual machine workloads. It then adds tiles to the hardware platform, until its resources run out. Now version 2.0 is out!

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If you are a real Wayne’s World fan… We now have: Chad’s World!

I just saw the “trailer” and I thought you should too:

EXCELLENT!!!!!
UPDATE: The first episode should be airing december 19.

Some people have asked me how to actually create the 3D graphs from the vcsiStats tool. I use a simple Excel sheet for this. Using the script I described in vscsiStats into the third dimension: Surface charts! , you can import the files outputted into excel and see the Excel chart instantaneously.

The vscsiStats tool is a very powerfull vSphere utility. It allows you to see virtual disk performance (such as latency, IOPS block sizes etc). The script I used in part 1 and in part 2 of this series will shoot multiple samples of these values right after each other, which you can then import into Excel to produce surface charts, like this one:

How to create graphs like this is described in detail below. Read the rest of this entry »