vSoup A/S/L #17

Arjan Timmerman is our esteemed guest in episode 17. Arjan is one of the rather huge dutch virtualization army, and a really nice guy as well.

We get into all sorts of topics, like P2Ving Domain Controllers, Christian’s new job, Ed’s possible Asian rim job, and can you, as a consultant, really say to to a client/customer?

Also, for some reason we get into replacing Christian (at VMworld Europe) with a potato, and the possibility of having Chris wandering around Copenhagen wearing a green bikini. Two things the world isn’t ready for, at least not the bikini part.

VMware Workstation 8 gets some more well deserved attention too, including running Hyper-V in it. The value of conferences gets mentioned and so does the conference parties!

Linkware:

• The Virtualization Room: Announcing our new advisory board member


• EDB ErgoGroup


• vdicloud.nl


• Qurius


• VMware Workstation


• P2V a Domain Controller? Why would you?


• Cloud still tops 2011 priority list; desktop virtualization maturing


• VMware Workstation 8 – What’s new?

Competition Time

Again, we get going with a new competition for our listeners, and yet again, we’re giving you the change to win a virtualization book. This time the prize is the VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive, written by Duncan Epping (yellow-bricks.com) and Frank Denneman (frankdenneman.nl). You can get your hands on a signed copy of the book, if you can answer the two questions Arjan asks in the podcast.

Note: The first question has changed to this:

“In a vSphere 5 Cluster, if the Master Node fails an election process is

started. Explain this new election process.”

Send in your answers by using our contact form