Eric Sloof

If you’re seeking answers for your most difficult VMware related questions, you really should pay a visit to this year’s VMware community lounge. The following experts are at your service:

Duncan Epping, - VMware Senior Consultant and owner of Yellow-Bricks
Gabrie van Zanten, - Owner of gabesvirtualworld
Jason Boche, - VMTN Moderator, Minneapolis Area VMUG president, and owner of Boche.net
Alan Renouf, - Owner of Virtu-Al, Powershell Enthusiast
Steve Beaver, - Tripwire, VMTN Moderator, Published Author, and contributor to Virtual Black Hole
Scott Herold, - Quest, owner of VMGuru.com and accomplished Author
Thomas Bryant, - VizionCore and VMTN Moderator
Wil van Antwerpen, - Owner of vi-toolkit.com
Eric Sloof, - VMware trainer and owner of ntpro.nl
Tom Howarth, - VMTN Moderator and owner of PlanetVM

So don’t forget to put the following dates in your agenda: Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th  from 13.00 to 14.00.

This morning, Marco Tijbout, who's one of my VMware View training attendees brought me up-to-date about the release of the official, high quality icons and diagrams from VMware. You can create your VMware diagrams and presentation the best with these graphics. From the official branding team! The icons can be used by VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) and VMware Architects (VCDX) to develop high quality diagrams using brande collateral.

Scott Herold has finally gotten around to creating some videos of PowerGUI in action when managing a VMware infrastructure. This extends his primer on getting started with PowerShell and PowerGUI. He has created 5 new videos that are best viewed in the following order:

1. Establishing Connections to your VMware Infrastructure using the PowerGUI Console
2. Navigate your VMware Infrastructure using the PowerGUI Console
3. Execute Links and Actions in the PowerGUI Console
4. Create and Save Filters using the PowerGUI Console
5. Using the PowerGUI Script Editor

The VMworld Europe 2009 Vimeo Group provides a great way to swap your VMworld movies. This VMworld Vimeo Group is much the same as other Groups you can join online. Vimeo Groups are places where people of similar interests meet to exchange videos. At this Vimeo Group, you also can follow other VMworld Europe 2009 fanatics who are visiting Cannes.

http://vimeo.com/groups/vmworldeurope

Herco van Brug  released a new version of EDA, an appliance dedicated to deploying ESX servers fast and easy. It has a scriptbuilder to quickly create %post-scripts.

New in 0.87:

• Editing the order of the scriptparts.
• Bulk creation and deletion of ESX hostnames/ip.
• A fs.php page that allows for small remote updates.
• ESXi support fixed again.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1216

To get started quickly, read the Quick setup guide on this site.

VMware vCenter Converter lets users quickly, easily and affordably convert Microsoft Windows and Linux based physical machines and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines. It also converts virtual machines between VMware platforms.

VMware vCenter Converter is available in two different versions – Standalone Converter and Converter integrated with VMware vCenter Server.