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Last friday VMware released Virtual Center 2.5 update 6.  Most interesting new feature is that it now supports customization for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
From the Release notes:
What’s New
Guest Operating Systems Customization Improvements
Customization support for the following guest operating systems has been added in this release:
For more complete information about supported guests [...]

In my previous post, I already wrote about the Top25 Bloggers that were announced by Eric Siebert on vSphere-land.com. Eric has now put the full voting results online. Out of the 66 blogs I ended up as 29th.

Although I didn’t make it into the Top25, I’m still very satisfied ending up on the 29th place with [...]

The votes have been counted and the new Top25 bloggers are revealed by Eric Siebert on vSphere-land. A total amount of over 700 people from all over the world have casted their votes, which delivered Eric a nice weekend counting.
The new Top25 as published by Eric siebert on vSphere-land:

Yellow Bricks – Duncan Epping – 158 [...]

In case you didn’t noticed already, Eric Siebert  from vsphere-land has proclaimed a new top bloggers election. Blogging takes a lot of work, and most of us do this on top of our day jobs and hence don’t get paid for it. So I’m honoured to be a nominee alongside world’s greatest virtualization bloggers. Check out the [...]

Nowadays more and more companies have or are considering a 2nd datacenter in another site. Mostly the main reason for this 2nd datacenter is for disaster recovery purposes. There are 2 ways to utilize this 2nd datacenter. First one could choose for an active-passive setup, where in the 2nd datacenter bare-metal servers are waiting to [...]

Occasionally I get the question “Hey, I’m new to VMware virtualization. Since you are the expert, can you please tell me where to start?” All right, if you really want to get started, let me give you some guidelines. First you need a VMware virtualization layer. There are different options to choose from.
Desktop Products
If you [...]

In part 1, I explained the virtual machine settings that are available to us regarding to memory, in part 2, I explained how the ESX kernel assigns memory to a VM and in this part I will dive into ESX memory reclaiming techniques.
The ESX kernel uses transparent page sharing, ballooning and swapping to reclaim memory. [...]

In part 1, I explained the virtual machine memory settings that are available to us. This caused quite some controversy on what would happen when a limit is hit that’s configured lower than the actual allocated memory.
Scott Herold did an excellent follow-up on this. Be sure to read his article too, because it contains valuable [...]

I receive a lot of questions lately about ESX memory management. Things that are very obvious to me seem to be not so obvious at all for some other people. So I’ll try to explain these things from my point of view.
First let’s have a look at the virtual machine settings available to us. On [...]