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Wow! On 12th of June 2007Networknet.nl Blog become online .  In the first half year I was learning WordPress system and posted some posts. After getting familiar with the blogging system I started to blog on various topics and areas I was working on. I received feedback from the readers hitting my website (thanks to google ) and enjoyed publishing my posts.

Where do we stand now:

• 20-03-2008 : 10000 visitors
• 31-07-2008: 50000 visitors
• 18-12-2008: 100000 visitors
• 2009: 250000 ??? just kidding

Tot twee weken geleden wist ik niet zeker of ik dit jaar aan de VMug Event 2008 deel kon nemen. Gelukkig kon ik de dag vrij krijgen en was een van de zeshonderd gelukkigen. Dit jaar wederom het event en nu maar liefst plaats voor 600 deelnemers. Vorig jaar waren er 400 en wie weet hoeveel er volgend jaar zullen zijn gezien de wereldwijde crisis en de kostenbesparing die wij met virtualizatie zouden kunnen realiseren.

Op 12 december 2008 vindt in het NBC Nieuwegein de 4e editie van het VMware User Group (VMUG) Event plaats! Het VMUG Event is het grootste virtualisatie evenement van Nederland: Een technische dag die volledig in het teken staat van de virtualisatietechnolgie van VMware.

Mijn agenda:
8:30 - 9:30 Ontvangst, registratie en koffie (VMUG Exchange)
9:30 - 9:50 Openening van het VMUG Event 2008 (Grote Zaal)
9:50 - 10:30 Keynote – VMware (Grote Zaal)
10:30 - 10:50 Pauze (VMUG Exchange)
10:50 - 11:35 ESX Server en Virtual Center Server Best Practices (Grote Zaal)
11:35 - 11:40 Zaalwisseling
11:40 - 12:25 VMUG Sessie: Streaming Smackdown 2009  Ruben Spruijt - VMUG / PQR (Zaal 2 Boven)
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Virtualisatie en Storage (Grote Zaal)
14:20 -15:05 SRM & DR Best Practices (Grote Zaal)
15:05 - 15:20 Pauze
15:20 - 16:05 VMware - 3rd Party Utilities for VMware Richard Garsthagen – Vmware (Grote Zaal)
16:10 - 16:30 VMUG Event 2008: Afsluiting  Viktor van den Berg (Grote Zaal)
16:30-17:30…………..Borrel!

Hopelijk geen file vanuit Dordrecht naar Niuewegein morgen voor mij. Meer info volgt!

AutoCAD “Out of the Box” is not tuned to perform particularly well in a WAN environment. This tip is about ways to make AutoCAD respond faster in a networked environment.  After implmenting central file serverices with Riverbed appliances the performance and usage of AutoCAD drawing become almost unusable when browsing for a file in Windows Explorer. AutoCAD files were located on a LAN connected file server before and migrated.

Autodesk’s Infamous Explorer Shell Extension
Since Autodesk included the ability to add digital signatures to drawings, they’ve also included an Explorer shell extension that allows Explorer to display signed .DWG files with a different icon than unsigned .DWG files. When Explorer lists .DWG files in a folder, it has to examine each file to determine whether or not it is signed and then display the correct icon. This takes time. On your local workstation’s folders the extra time is insignificant; however on a LAN the lag is noticeable, and across the WAN the lag can be crippling. The Explore lag occurs in AutoCAD File Dialogs as well as just plain Explorer.

By default this shell extension is installed and enabled with any Autodesk product.
To disable it:

• Right-click on any .DWG file and choose “Enable/Disable Digital Signature Icons” from the menu.
• In the Signature Validation Options dialog uncheck the “Validate digital signatures and display special icons” check box. 
• Click OK and Reboot.

Any AutoCAD product install or update will re-enable this shell extension, so you may get to do this more than one time. Anytime your browser access becomes slow, check this setting.

Disabling the the digital signature icon display does not invalidate a drawing’s digital signature. End users are still notified on Open that they’re opening a signed drawing.

Related links:

• AutoCAD in a Networked Environment

ImgBurn is a free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images with ease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can be found in the ImgBurn context menus.

 
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS’s - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

If you never heard of this tool than now you should download and install it ;). I am using this tool to burn cd-roms from my Windows Server 2008 Hyver-V whitebox and it works smoothly. Beside all burning features one other which comes handy is to grab a folder and create a ISO file; than mount the ISO file with Hyper-V or ESX virtual machines. I used this feature many times when working in the test and production environments. 

Click here to download the ImgBurn tool.

I am working to prepare my virtual machine to move it from test network to production. Before bringing this virtual machine to production I wanted to run the latest updates and during the process my virtual hard disk went full ;-(. I sized the vm with 6GB of disk space and yes I run into disk space problem. 

VMWare ESX allows you to extend the virtual disk size on a running virtual machine. How to extend the virtual disk size? Right click the virtual machine in the VI cleint; choose settings and go to “Hard Disk 1″ and type new disk size. Click OK.

Example of my new  Disk Configuration in “Disk Management”. To extend the virtual disk we need to go to diskpart and extent the volume.

I opened command prompt and opened diskpart; selected the volume and run extend.

The volume you selected may not be extended.
Please select another volume and try again.

My virtual hard disk was full and I was not able to extend my basic disk with the additional 2GB I added to this configuration.

Thanks to Kalpesh Prajapati post I was able to find a solution to my problem.

Follow these steps to extend your virtual machine basic hard disk:

• Shutdown the virtual machine
• Extend the virtual disk size
• Add the harddisk to another virtual machine and start it up (second virtual machine)
• Open command prompt and start diskpart.exe
• list volumes and select the volume with the disk problem
• extend the disk

Make sure the volume has a drive letter assigned otherwise same warning will be returned. Virtual machine was started again without any problems and two additional gigs of disk space.

Links:

• Arne Fokkema posted another way how to perfom these actions on a basic disk. It should be easier if you download the additional ExtPart.exe tool from Dell. Extend the OS disk the easy way (ExtPart.exe)

If you are looking for easy publishing your pictures, videos and blog posts than the ScribeFire add-on for Firefox is awe sum. I have been using the Windows Live Writer application for more than six months and like the gui but since I am running Ubuntu as my primary OS I tried to find something new.

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

For more information, details and download check out this link at Firefox website https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730