Viktor’s session (updated with more footage!)
Feb 26, 2009 Blogs
Viktor van den Berg has presented his session on unattended VI3 installations today. I’ve recorded most of the presentation.
VMworld Europe ’09 Party (updated!)
Feb 26, 2009 Blogs
Yesterday evening was the big party at the Rotunda at VMworld Europe ’09 in Cannes. All 4700 attendees were invited to the party. There were loads of arcade games, foosballtables. Also, the food and drinks served were amazing. After a couple of hours, a coverband took over the stage and played the best partymusic ever!
I used my new Flip MinoHD to record some nice HD-quality footage. I’ve uploaded most of them (about 30 of the original 90 movies, totalling 4GB) to Vimeo. Check out the videos below.
vWire is flippin’ great!
Feb 25, 2009 Blogs
I’ve been hanging with the vWire guys (Steve Beaver and Karen Hepner) a couple of times this week. After having dinner on monday evening, hanging out at some bars and Steve and me celebrating getting the vExpert Award, I thought it was time to swing by their booth on the Solution Exchange and find out what vWire is all about. Unfortunately, the product is still under heavy development and I had to sign a NDA to get the inside scoop, they did give me loads of goodies.
Joep Piscaer interviewed by the Dutch VMUG
Feb 25, 2009 Blogs
Yesterday, Viktor van den Berg of the Dutch VMUG interviewed me. As my native tongue is Dutch, the interview was in Dutch. I apologize to all non-Dutch people reading my blog. Watch the video below.
VMware vCenter on Linux
Feb 25, 2009 Blogs
I’m attending the DC08 break-out session about vCenter running on Linux by Adam Young (working at VMware). When Adam entered the stage and introduced himself as ‘a Linux guy’, he got a round of applause. Great start of his session.
VMware demonstrates mobile phone hypervisor
Feb 25, 2009 Blogs
During the keynote on wednesday, VMware demonstrated the hypervisor that runs on a mobile phone as part of their MVP (Mobile Virtualisation Platform). Check out the video below:
Tripwire meeting at VMworld Europe ’09
Feb 25, 2009 Blogs
Last night, I went for dinner with Steve Beaver and Karen Hepner (both at VirtualBlackHole) from Tripwire. To my big surpise, a lot of other bloggers were present as well. See below for some videofootage!
And the winners are…
Feb 25, 2009 Blogs
John Troyer has announced the vExperts award this morning. To my big surprise, I had an e-mail in my inbox, with John congratulating me. I made vExpert! Wow!
Intel and VMware announce co-operation
Feb 24, 2009 Blogs
VMware’s been working very hard on their client-side hypervisor. To get this initiative up-and-running, VMware announced a co-operation with Intel to integrate the CVP concept into the Intel vPro platform. Check out the pictures of Gregory Bryant and Paul Maritz announcing the co-operation below.
VMware vCenter Data Recovery (screenshots updated)
Feb 24, 2009 Blogs
At VMworld Europe ’09 there’s a opportunity to visit the hands-on labs. One of the labs shows the new backup and recovery solution from VMware, VMware vCenter Data Recovery. This is a disk-based tool, completely integrated with VMware vCenter Server. It supports data de-deduplication out of the box.
A Virtual Appliance does all the actual backup and recovery work, so you’ll need to think of this VA as the ‘engine’ of the product. It is managed via a vCenter Server plugin.
