Tuesday, June 23. 2009
Video | Running VMware ESXi 4 / vSphere in Workstation
Wednesday, June 10. 2009
Pick Your Top Five VMware Blogs!
Around a year ago Eric Siebert over at vSphere-Land started with the "Top 10 blogs that VMware administrators must read". The NTPRO.NL website ended up at the 6th place. In November 2008 NTPRO.NL went up two places and was staying at the 4th place. Eric expanded the top 10 into a top 20 recently, NTPRO.NL went up one place and is staying at the 3th place. If you’re a frequent visitor of my blog take the survey and cast your vote. Maybe you can encourage your friends and colleagues to do likewise.The results will be published on 6/30/09.
Friday, May 22. 2009
Windows 2008 license requirements for running vms in any virtual environment
Here are the Windows 2008 license requirements for running vms in any virtual environment. Licensing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to Run with Virtualization Technologies VMware’s ESX Server, VMware’s VMotion, Microsoft’s System Center Virtualization Machine Manager, and Parallels’ Virtuozzo.
Windows Server Licensing on top of VMware’s ESX
If a server is running ESX as the virtualization technology, then Windows Server is not deployed as a host operating system in the physical OSE. However, a license is required for every instance running in a virtual OSE.
If you have assigned a single license for Windows Server 2008 Standard to a server running ESX, then you may run one instance of Windows Server 2008 Standard at a time. The right to run an instance of Windows Server 2008 in the physical OSE cannot be used in this case since ESX runs on the physical OSE (and as a result, Windows Server 2008 cannot be deployed as the operating system on the physical OSE.)
If you have assigned a single license of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise to the server running ESX, then you may run up to four instances at a time of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. You may not run a fifth instance under the same license since that right requires that the fifth instance be running hardware virtualization software and software managing and servicing the OSEs on the server.
Thursday, May 21. 2009
Eric Siebert's VMware top blog list
Thursday, April 23. 2009
Where in the World is.... VMDoug?
Here are some video highlights from VMDoug’s recent trip to New Jersey and then Orlando for VMware Partner Exchange 2009. At the end of the video you will see a TweetUp organized by @Scott_Lowe and @RBrambley at the Veeam booth. Some VMware Partner Exchange Twitter folk actually showed up: @sbeaver, @ edsai, @vseanclark, @dsiles and @thinlaunchmike :-)