We are long time fascinated by the whole Black Friday and Cyber Monday craze in the USA. Unfortunately we do not celebrate Thanksgiving in the Netherlands and none of the shops are participating in something similar as Black Friday. This year we thought it was a great idea to participate in some form and what [...]

The last two years I enjoyed working as an architect within the PSO organization of VMware, designing and reviewing the most interesting virtual infrastructures in Europe. However today I signed my new contract, accepting a position within the Technical Marketing team. Starting December I will focus on resource management and disaster avoidance technologies. My new [...]

Last couple of weeks I’ve been receiving questions about vSphere HA FDM agent in a mixed cluster. When upgrading vCenter to 5.0, each HA cluster will be upgraded to the FDM agent. A new FDM agent will be pushed to each ESX server. The new HA version supports ESX(i) 3.5 through ESXi 5.0 hosts. Mixed [...]

If you follow me on twitter you might have seen my tweets I’m in Copenhagen for the last two weeks. Many followers asked me what I was doing there and were speculating it had something to do with VMworld. Even when replying I was visiting a customer, most dismissed these answers. Unfortunately yesterday Rasmus Jensen [...]