Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category
Ideal Software Licensing Model – Requirements Collection
I’m looking for some feedback and thoughts from the community to help define a reasonable Licensing Model that takes Physical & Virtual into account. From my view as a client I don’t think this is all that complicated at the end of the day.
More discussions with some vendors around licensing and I’m finding more and [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: licensing, physical, virtual, Virtualization
Limits have their limits
I’ve been chewing on this post by Duncan at Yellow Bricks for the past month and a half. It covers some complicated issues that one has to deal with in a enterprise size environment with many assumptions on what gets you into this mess in the first place. The best thing to do is downscale [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: management, performance, VMware
New vmware.com HomePage Layout & View 4 is released
New vmware.com HomePage is now live. I had an “anonymous internet tipster” give the heads up last night. Looks good and a bit more sleek in fitting with the branding of the new vmware logo.
Along with that View 4 is finally released. I’ve been playing with some beta bits for a while now and the [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: view, VMware
Running 20008 Active Directory with Bind
One of the fun things about running stuff at home, once you have something working remotely well you sure don’t want to change it. As such I have setup Bind 9 with DHCP and it works pretty good with a bunch of scripts I have to handle various dynamic adding and removing from my running [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: ActiveDirectory, Bind, home, Windows2008
VI Client protects itself nicely
Ok.. Follow me on this one.
I am connecting from a laptop via View client to a Virtual Workstation running XP that then I launch VI Client on it and go to the console of my Virtual Workstation.
VI Client Console
In the old day VirtualCenter would just loose it’s little mind and crash horribly or do some [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: vi client, VMware
Hiring a non-tech person for a CTO
Citrix has gone and hired a new CTO
For me I’m seeing another business person at Citrix in charge of the technical direction, not someone that has a strong basis of engineering and technology.
Maybe I’m judging MBA’s harshly, though they are bred and trained to aim for sales and revenue. Engineering backgrounds aim for better products [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: citrix
VMworld 2009 Trends and Summary
I’ve been watching things finally quiet down from VMworld 2009 and have some of the trends and summaries I have seen. Some of the trends are interesting, some not so much.
Twitter
Twitter really started the first time last year with following @vmworld. This year the # was all the rage. As long as you followed [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: summary, trends, vmworld
VMworld 2009 – Day 2 Wrapup
Day two at VMworld ended up being quite a bit more exciting than yesterday. The keynote by Steve Herrod was much more what I expected from the keynotes. He covered some of the “cool” stuff coming down the pipes in both the short term and longer term. The PCoIP demo showing Google Earth zooming up [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: party, VMware, vmworld
EA3196 – Virtualizing BlackBerry Enterprise on VMware
Once again.. another session I didn’t sign up with and zero issues getting into.
To start off RIM & VMware have been working together for 2 years and it is officially supported on VMware. Together RIM & VMware have done many numerous and successful engagements running BES on VMware. The interesting thing is RIM runs their [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: BES, VMware, vmworld
TA3461 – IO DRS: Tech Preview for VM Performance Isolation
This is a very new area of research at VMware. Only about 2 years ago. Since thm is is a Tech Preview it has no roadmap for when it will be available.
The Problem:
Many different workloads hit the same set of disks/arrays/spindles etc. Low priority processes that run ad-hoc or other times will cause higher priority [...]