Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: drs, VMware, vmworld
VMworld 2009 – Keynote P5
To expand and handle the next layers of Virtualization is: vSphere Control: Appspeed: is the “finger of blame” now. Instead of Network always getting the finger, now AppSpeed can point the finger at someone else. vApps are the containers of the future for applications be it standalone or multi-tier. The idea is with a vApp [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: keynote, vApps, vCloud, vmworld, vSphere
VMworld 2009 – Keynote P4
vSphere is the basis of all the improvements and technology over the years. Based on Software Mainframe (for those of you over 40), the Cloud (for the under 40 crowd) and decides the best idea is to call it The Giant Computer. The reason this all works is because of VMotion. It is the basis [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: keynote, VMware, vmworld, vSphere
VMworld 2009 – Keynote P3
View also includes the Mobile Technology dicussion. Mobile Technology is longer term working for functionality. Visa Product Development is up on the stage. He sees this space as a huge innovation going forward. Current development is significantly complicated. Easing functionality for development is extremely interesting for Visa. The Visa demo uses Windows Mobile on a [...]