VMworld 2010 – Opening Movie for the Opening Keynote
Do you want to know what the cloud is? Watch this and learn. This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. One of the better opening keynotes in a while. It answers the question of “What is the cloud?” in a way that [...]
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Lab Manager is dead.. Long Live Lab Manager
VMware has announced the new product VMware vCloud Director (vCD from now on). I’ve read the early blog posts and been in some conversations and know at this point I just can’t give it any justice. The short view it is virtualizing a datacenter into software and then managing at that layer. After spending close [...]
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PCoIP painting issues
Finally got PCoIP with View 4.0.1 up and running. All excited and thrilled to compare it to RDP. It was looking good until I fired up IE 8 and went to a couple websites. Some had issues.. Some didn’t. I then launched vSphere client only to be unable to see any of the objects in [...]
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Scale Up or Scale Out™
Duncan over at Yellow-Bricks.com brings up the great discussion once again. Every time a brand new piece of hardware comes out with more RAM possible or better, faster CPUs I have the “Scale Up or Scale Out™” Discussion with many people. I have this discussion every 9-12 months on average. We end up covering all [...]
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Cool Apps to play with by VMware Engineers
Came across VMware Labs website today. A nice website for VMware to show case the quality work that its employees are developing to improve the general vSphere environment. I have used or looked at 1/2 of these and was pleasantly surprised to discover some new tools. Per the site manifest: This is our place to [...]
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VMware Support offline for most of day due to power outage
On the 17th of Feb some form of Power Failure occurred at one of VMware’s Palo Alto locations. From what I understand this primarily affected the support systems and as such the phones were down for most of the day. Update 18 Feb 10 @ 8:28pm: @vmwarecares Network outage here caused by small plane crash [...]
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Cloud Computing Solution Provider – VMware
The recent Zimbra acquisition by VMware threw me a bit for a loop initially. Then I started chewing on it and read the good post by Rodney Haywood. Very shortly afterwords I had a classic Homer Duh moment. VMware aims to build from the ground up the best cloud computing solution for sale as possible. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]