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 share cool [...]
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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 in Palo [...]
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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. That [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 or do some [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]