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November 21, 2009

VMware vSphere 4 update 1

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

VMware had officially released the vSphere 4 update 1 yesterday. There are many new support features and also bug fixes. Is time to take a look for a major upgrade this month to overcome some challenges we faced with the previous version. Please view more information from the release note. Beside…

by craig at November 21, 2009 03:11 AM

Qlogic CNA Adaptor are on VMware HCL list now

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

If you had previously deployed FCoE and 10 Gbps Ethernet with Qlogic CNA adapter, you may now able to see them are part of the HCL list been certified by VMWare officially. This had clear up a lot of curious question we had asked around for the pass 2 quarters why Qlogic had not been [...]

by craig at November 21, 2009 02:55 AM

vSphere update 1 and other friday goodies!

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

Happy thanksgiving to my American colleagues! after a bunch of “high level” of posts, glad to do a technical one again :-) Glad to see vSphere 4 udpate 1 hit today – you can get more here. A couple important...

by Chad Sakac at November 21, 2009 12:51 AM

Busy day in the VMware security Dept.

PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)

Part Duex. VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2009-0014.1 Synopsis: VMware ESX patches for DHCP, Service Console kernel, and JRE resolve multiple security issues Issue date: 2009-10-16 Updated on: 2009-11-19 CVE numbers: [...]

by Tom Howarth at November 21, 2009 12:42 AM

View4 available for download

That's My View (Christoph Dommermuth)

Finally its here, View4 is now available for download: https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/p/download.php?p=view4&lp=1 Release notes are here: https://www.vmware.com/support/view40/doc/releasenotes_viewmanager40.html

by Joel Lindberg at November 21, 2009 12:38 AM

New View 4 documentation now available

vReference (Forbes Guthrie)

Forget the actual product, this is what I’ve been waiting for VMware View 4 documentation is now available for download: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html ===== New View 4 documentation now available originally posted by Forbes Guthrie on vReference. Subscribe to my RSS feed…

by Forbes Guthrie at November 21, 2009 12:32 AM

Busy day in the VMware Security Advisory Dept.

PlanetVM (Tom Howarth)

today I have received three yes three advisories from VMware as usual I will print them in full.  now only one of these is a completely now one, the later two are Updates VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID:       VMSA-2009-0016 Synopsis:          VMware vCenter and ESX update…

by Tom Howarth at November 21, 2009 12:02 AM

November 20, 2009

The little things will kill you

Virtualization Security (Tripwire)

My cohort Gene Kim and I were in San Francisco meeting with a number of journalists yesterday.  We were discussing trends, virtualization, IT risks, and things of that sort and everyone wanted to know about what new risks, threats, etc. were going to be a problem in the next year. Everyone wanted…

by Dwayne Melancon at November 20, 2009 11:10 PM

Virtualization Round Up 20091120

latoga labs (Greg A Lato [VMware])

Today’s the last day before a week long vacation over Thanksgiving and it’s been a continual mad dash for the finish line.  The rain is falling, the wind is howling, and I’m not looking forward to a vacation painting project…what better time than to catch up on a few key virtualization…

by latoga at November 20, 2009 10:05 PM

Google Chrome OS running on VMware Workstation!!!

Workstation Zealot

The Google Chrome OS source was released by Google yesterday and the rockstars at gdgt.com have compiled it and released a VMware virtual machine to make it easy for VMware Workstation and VMware Player users to give it a try....

by Jason Joel at November 20, 2009 09:22 PM

IBM delves into VMware security: News in brief

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

Working with VMware VMsafe application programming interfaces, IBM announced Virtual Server Security for vSphere, and other virtualization product news.

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by Alex Barrett, News Director at November 20, 2009 09:22 PM

Release: VMware vSphere (ESX) 4 Update 1

Gerben's Blog on Virtualization (Gerben Kloosterman)

Vmware released VMware vSphere (ESX) 4 Update 1 New in this release (from the release notes): VMware View 4.0 support – This release adds support for VMware View 4.0, a solution built specifically for delivering desktops as a managed service from the protocol to the platform. Windows 7 and Windows…

by Gerben at November 20, 2009 09:10 PM

Best new feature of vSphere Update 1: PVSCSI Boot

VM Junkie (Justin Emerson)

So a while back I made a post about some new best practices for vSphere based on some new features that were available. One of the ugly points at the time was that while the new PVSCSI controller was awesome, you could only use it for additional disks. Well I’m thankful to report that as of [...]

by ermac318 at November 20, 2009 08:03 PM

New EVC Mode in vSphere 4.0 Update 1: Westmere

VM Junkie (Justin Emerson)

Looks like VMware is already preparing for the launch of Intel’s newest chip. I noticed the following in vCenter 4 Update 1’s EVC Cluster options: Good to note this means that there is sufficient changes ahead to require a different EVC mode. That means for those of you installing Nehalem-based…

by ermac318 at November 20, 2009 07:54 PM

64-bit vCenter Server Coming? VMFS-2 Support Going Away?

VMware Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche)

Looking at the VMware vCenter 4.0 Update 1 Release Notes, it appears we may be looking at 64-bit only versions of vCenter Server in the future: “Future releases of VMware vCenter Server might not support installation on 32-bit Windows operating systems. VMware recommends installing vCenter Server…

by jason at November 20, 2009 07:52 PM

First update to vSphere released

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

VMware has finally released the first update to vSphere almost 6 months after the initial release of vSphere in May 2009. Version 4.0 Update 1 delivers many fixes to bugs and issues as well as support for new features, products and operating systems. Perhaps the biggest updates in this release are…

by Eric Siebert at November 20, 2009 07:33 PM

Interesting Linux VM Crash Pattern

thinking sysadmin (Andy Leonard)

I’ve just begun to pull together some interesting data on a series of Linux VM crashes I’ve seen. I don’t have a resolution yet, but some interesting patterns have emerged. Crash Symptoms A CentOS 4.x or 5.x guest will crash with a message similar to the following on its console: CentOS 4.x:…

by Andy at November 20, 2009 07:09 PM

Download Chrome OS VMware image

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

<img>After Google announced the availability of the Chrome OS / Chromium OS source code, one of GDGT's engineers (Jon Ursenbach), immediately got to work on compiling the code, trying to see if he could get an instance of Chromium OS running in a virtual machine.

He was finally able to do it!…

by Eric Sloof at November 20, 2009 06:44 PM

vSphere Client on Windows 7

Gerben's Blog on Virtualization (Gerben Kloosterman)

  VMware just released vSphere 4 update 1. With this update the vSphere client now supports Windows 7 as an OS! Technorati Tags: Windows 7,vSphere Client,VMware addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.virtualarchitect.nl%2F2009%2F11%2Fvsphere-client-on-windows-7%2F'; addthis_title =…

by Gerben at November 20, 2009 06:25 PM

Huge amount of VMware updates

Virtual IEF (Ivo Beerens)

  Today when i woke up there where a lot of VMware updates available (to much to handle for one day ).  I did an upgrade of my lab environment, it went smooth with any issues. VMware did a great job with the new improvements! Here’s a list of improvements with some screenshots: VMware [...]

by admin at November 20, 2009 05:55 PM

VMware Data Recovery and File Level Restore

Uptime (VMware and Business Continuity [VMware])

Today we released an updated version of VMware Data Recovery (VDR) – we have been working hard on this release for the past few months and we think it moves the needle significantly forward. Get more information about the updated VDR release here. So, what are the highlights of this updated…

by Azmir Mohamed at November 20, 2009 05:48 PM

reblog: VCP4 holders will get a Workstation 7 license

Gerben's Blog on Virtualization (Gerben Kloosterman)

Jon Hall from the Certification team at VMware has confirmed today that holders of the VCP4 certification will get a new license for VMware Workstation 7. There is a process that has to be finished internally within VMware, then the licenses will be released. VCP3 holders will still receive a…

by Gerben at November 20, 2009 05:43 PM

ESX(i) 4.0 -> ESX(i) 4.0 U1 update

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

My colleague Lee Dilworth just emailed me the following. Those who are running vSphere ESX(i) and have the Cisco Nexus1000v installed might want to read this: If your customers are on ESXi/ESX 4.0 and want to update to U1 using the vihostupdate then first they need to read this new KB:…

by Duncan Epping at November 20, 2009 04:45 PM

VMware releases vSphere 4.0 Update 1

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

The first major update to vSphere 4 delivers highly coveted support for Windows 7 as a host and as guest operating system.

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by Alex Barrett, News Director at November 20, 2009 04:06 PM

VMware vSphere 4 U1 and Server Heartbeat 5.5 U2 Released

latoga labs (Greg A Lato [VMware])

Yesterday was a busy day for releases at VMware: vSphere 4.0 Update 1 Released Key enhancements: VMware View 4.0 support (hint, hint…) Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support Enhanced Clustering Support for Microsoft Windows Enhanced VMware Paravirtualized SCSI Support Improved vNetwork Distributed…

by latoga at November 20, 2009 03:19 PM

Release: vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 2

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence [VMware])

The maximum uptime solution for vCenter has been upgraded to 5.5 Update 2 and can be downloaded here.  Here’s the what’s new section from the release notes: Support for Windows Server 2008 SP1 and SP2 (x86/x64) — VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat now supports running on Windows Server 2008 SP1…

by The VMguy at November 20, 2009 03:05 PM

Oracle VM Template for PeopleSoft

vizzr.info (osde.info)

Oracle have recently added a Oracle VM Template for PeopleSoft which delivers a “quick start” of PeopleSoft HCM with Oracle Database on Oracle Enterprise Linux to the Oracle VM Template library.

by admin at November 20, 2009 01:53 PM

VDR version 1.1 released

vroem.co.za (Hugo Strydom [VMware])

VMware DataRecovery version 1.1 have been released today. You can find the release notes here. One of the new features is the file level restore that is now fully supported. Reading the manual it looks like you can do the file level restore from within the VM. But hey…I mut still go and test it…

by HStrydom at November 20, 2009 01:30 PM

ENISA launches Cloud Computing Security Risk Assessment Document

Rational Survivability (Chris Hoff)

ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) today launched their 124 page report on Cloud Computing Security Risk Assessment. At first glance it’s an excellent read and will be a fantastic accompaniment to the the CSA’s guidance.  I plan to dig into it more over the weekend. …

by beaker at November 20, 2009 01:08 PM

StorMagic SvSAN with High Availability mirroring

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

Recently I had the opportunity to review StorMagic’s SvSAN software. Their current release available from their website is only compatible with VMware ESX 3.5, since my home lab is already running...

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by Gabe at November 20, 2009 12:47 PM

“Me Too!” – vSphere 4.0 Update 1 Released

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

While I generally don’t like doing a “Me Too” sort of post, I think the U1 release of vSphere is important enough to recap what some of the other blogs are saying on this. Rather than ramble off what has changed, and what is improved, etc. I will instead point you to some blogs who [...]

by bunchc at November 20, 2009 12:12 PM

Leadtek Expands into Desktop Virtualization Market with its VMware Ready Certified PC-over-IP Solution

That's My View (Christoph Dommermuth)

Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 20, 2009 – Leadtek Research Inc., known globally for extreme visual graphics technology development, is pleased to announce its newest virtual desktop certifications and solutions, strengthening its strategic partnership with VMware®. Source:…

by Christoph Dommermuth at November 20, 2009 12:08 PM

vSphere 4 update 1 released last night

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

vSphere 4 update 1 released. Just saw the news on Jason’s site. It’s the long time awaited vSphere 4 update 1 which has been released last night. But not only. Together with ESX 4, ESXi 4 and vCenter Server there are updates available for other products, to insure the compatibility and…

by Vladan SEGET at November 20, 2009 12:00 PM

2010 Trends: Virtual Sprawl Unchecked Leads to Software License Compliance Headaches

VMBlog (David Marshall)

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by David Marshall at November 20, 2009 11:53 AM

vMotion vs. VMotion .. Vote for your favorite!

HyperViZor (Hany Michael)

I guess all of us are confused at this point whether it’s “vMotion” or “VMotion”! Every now and then, we would see a slide/wp/document/blog-post/presentation mentioning the term in a deferent way. I showed on twitter lately one of these slides which was taken from an official VMware…

by Hany Michael at November 20, 2009 11:20 AM

VMware ESX 4.0 Update 1 has been released

Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)

Update 1 for ESX4 has been released:


- VMware View 4.0 support
- Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support – This release adds support for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 as well as 64-bit Windows 2008 R2 as guest OS platforms.
vSphere Client is now supported and can be installed on a Windows 7…

by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at November 20, 2009 10:51 AM

vSphere: Agent Pre-Upgrade Check Utility

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

When you start the autorun of vSphere vCenter 4.0 update, you will notice a new button called Agent Pre-upgrade Check. In this post you, I will show you the wizard. Choose the right credentials to connect the vCenter database: Choose your scan type: And wait. My hosts are ready to upgrade:…

by afokkema at November 20, 2009 09:25 AM

Solutions for Remote and Branch Offices

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

VMware just released two new editions of vSphere which are specifically targeted at retail store / branch office environments. A PDF describing these package can be found here and the solution page on VMware.com can be found here. VMware vSphere Essentials for Retail and Branch Offices offers a…

by Duncan Epping at November 20, 2009 08:33 AM

VMware ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 Update 1 (U1) Released !

TechHead (Simon Seagrave)

It’s here!  The much anticipated first major update (U1) to VMware ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 has been released and is now available to download from VMware.  The sections below provide a summary of what is new and/or enhanced in this update 1 release for both ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 though, as…

by Kiwi Si at November 20, 2009 08:00 AM

Reflections on our work life on the one year anniversary of being acquired by TechTarget

Brian Madden Blog

On November 20, 2008, Gabe and I wrote that The Brian Madden Company had been acquired by TechTarget . It's hard to believe it's been a year already, although it's cool that I finally know most of my coworkers' names. In the past year...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at November 20, 2009 07:48 AM

vSphere Update 1 Released

Virtualised Reality

After many rumours that update 1 for vSphere would be released on the 19th of November we were all sorely disappointed, with new rumours it would be Monday 23rd. Much to my surprise this morning it has been released. The biggest new features are View 4 support, Windows 7 vSphere client support…

by Barry at November 20, 2009 07:38 AM

PowerCLI: Bring on the next version

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

In the previous version of PowerCLI we had 165 great cmdlets to play with and didn’t we have fun, now in the new version (Download Here) we have a whopping….. That’s right, an extra 68 cmdlets (4 of the old cmdlets were renamed from the previous version), bring on the fun ! So as well as the…

by Virtu-Al at November 20, 2009 07:00 AM

vSphere ESX/vCenter 4.0 Update 1

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

VMware just released ESX 4.0 Update 1 and vCenter 4.0 Update 1. Most people have already reported on this by now. Two things that stood out for me personally is the following: HA Cluster Configuration Maximum — HA clusters can now support 160 virtual machines per host in HA Cluster of 8 hosts or…

by Duncan Epping at November 20, 2009 06:36 AM

VMware: vSphere & PowerCLI Update 1 released

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

Finally the vSphere Client is supported on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2: Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support — This release adds support for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 as well as 64-bit Windows 2008 R2 as guest operating system platforms. In addition, the vSphere Client is now…

by afokkema at November 20, 2009 06:35 AM

VMware SRM 4 video explaining installation steps for Shared Recovery Site

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

With a recent release of VMware SRM 4, there has been also a new feature introduced. VMware SRM was released few weeks back. SRM 4.0 is fully compatible with VMware vSphere 4. VMWare Site Recovery helps you create and successfully test recovery plans for your datacenter. VMware SRM is used to…

by Vladan SEGET at November 20, 2009 06:31 AM

PowerCLI 4.0 U1 is out!

vSphere PowerCLI Blog

Tonight we released PowerCLI 4.0 U1. This release contains more than 60 new cmdlets as well as greatly improved performance, a new feature to make it easy to manage multiple ESX or vCenter servers from a single window and much,...

by Carter Shanklin at November 20, 2009 06:18 AM

vSphere 4 Update 1 released

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

Last night VMware has released Update 1 for ESXi 4, ESX 4, and vCenter server 4. According to the release notes Update 1 includes the following improvements: Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2; Support for View 4; Support for 160 VMs per host in a HA cluster with 8 hosts or less;…

by Erik Scholten at November 20, 2009 05:55 AM

VMware has released vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 U1

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 Update 1 has been tested against the beta release of vSphere 4.1. To find the related issues, see Known Issues, Compatibility with VMware vSphere 4.1 Beta.

What's New in This Release?
This release of vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 Update 1 introduces the following new capabilities:

by Eric Sloof at November 20, 2009 05:47 AM

VMware has released ESX 4 Update 1 (4.0 Update 1)

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX:

VMware View 4.0 support – This release adds support for VMware View 4.0, a solution built specifically for delivering desktops as a managed service from the protocol to the platform.

by Eric Sloof at November 20, 2009 05:41 AM

vSphere 4 Update 1 Released

VMware Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche)

While the Dutch and UK bloggers sleep, VMware has released Update 1 for ESXi 4, ESX 4, and vCenter 4. Notable improvements include: View 4 support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support (Support for Windows 7 was timed nicely for View 4) DB2 database back end support (Who requested this?…

by jason at November 20, 2009 04:19 AM

VMware Data Recovery 1.1 Release Supports File Level Restore

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

The VMGuy has the scoop on all the VMware releases tonight! VMware has also made available an updated version of the GUI based virtual machine (VM) backup and restore plugin for vCenter 4, VMware Data Recovery 1.1 (VDR). Download it here and check the check the Release Notes here. VMware is saying…

by Rich Brambley at November 20, 2009 04:01 AM

ESX 4.0 U1 Release Paves Way For View 4, Supports Win 7, and Updates vSphere Client

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

It was speculated that it might not happen until next week (Monday 11/23), but VMware engineer Dave Lawrence’s post Release: ESX 4.0 Update 1 on his VMGuy Blog confirms that ESX 4.0 U1 is now available for download. The most notable changes in this update include full support for VMware View 4…

by Rich Brambley at November 20, 2009 03:23 AM

Release: VMware Data Recovery 1.1

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence [VMware])

The little backup application that could just got better and upgraded to v1.1 and can be downloaded here.  Here’s the Enhancements section from the release notes: File Level Restore Functionality is Officially Supported File Level Restore (FLR) provides a way to access individual files within…

by The VMguy at November 20, 2009 03:00 AM

Release: vCenter 4.0 Update 1

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence [VMware])

vCenter was also updated tonight with update 1 and can be downloaded here.  Here’s the What’s new section from the release notes: IBM DB2 Database Support for vCenter Server — This release adds support for IBM DB2 9.5 as the backend database platform for VMware vCenter Server 4.0. The…

by The VMguy at November 20, 2009 02:55 AM

Release: ESX 4.0 Update 1

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence [VMware])

The first update of ESX 4.0 has been released and can be downloaded here.  Here’s the What’s new section from the release notes: VMware View 4.0 support – This release adds support for VMware View 4.0, a solution built specifically for delivering desktops as a managed service from the…

by The VMguy at November 20, 2009 02:51 AM

Skillful Server Selection

Virtual Enthusiasm (Clint Eschberger)

A little over a month ago I was interviewed by Processor.com on finding the right server for your data center or project. It is a good guide for anyone in the position of choosing servers in today's infrastructure. What I tried to convey is to choose more dynamic servers, look beyond the "speeds and…

by nospam@example.com (Clint Eschberger) at November 20, 2009 02:00 AM

November 19, 2009

Welcoming the Burton Group to Bladewatch

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

Burton Group I would like to welcome the Burton Group to our blog (bladewatch.com), it is great that they have decided to support us in delivering our content to you. The Burton Group provide in-depth IT research and advisory services with a focus on strategic business technologies to executives and…

by Martin at November 19, 2009 09:58 PM

RVTools 2.7.1

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

Rob de Veij has just uploaded a new version of RVTools, 2.7.1. So far over RVTools has been downloaded over 25000 times. Yes 25000 times, that is a lot isn’t it. There’s a good reason though that it is popular. It is easy to use and gives you all the details you are looking for. Version [...]


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by Duncan Epping at November 19, 2009 09:41 PM

Free virtualization fools

A. Mikkelsen (Anders Mikkelsen)

David Davis has put together a list of what he thinks is some of the best free virtualization tools avaiable. VMware vSphere ESXi Free Edition and VMware Go VMware vMA, vCLI (or command-line interface), PowerCLI, and scripts from the vGhetto script repository such as vSphereHealthCheck Veeam…

by A. Mikkelsen at November 19, 2009 09:19 PM

VMware View 4 Release date postponed till Monday 23rd

Gerben's Blog on Virtualization (Gerben Kloosterman)

As a lot of others I was looking forward to the GA-date today of VMware View 4. Unfortunately VMware discovered some issues with the upgrade from view 3 to view 4 and postponed the release till next monday November 23rd. The planned paired release of vSphere 4.0 Update 1 remained unchanged –…

by Gerben at November 19, 2009 09:06 PM

New VMware Player 3.0 is worth looking at

InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)

Sitting back and watching 2009 zoom past me, I noticed that the desktop virtualization market is finally beginning to grab hold within organizations. Media, analysts and vendors have been telling people about its technological wonders for years. But for one reason or another, it has taken all…

by David Marshall at November 19, 2009 08:50 PM

Review: VMware Data Recovery 1.0

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

Part 4 of my backup products review has been released at SearchVMware.com. Follow the link below to see my reviews Backup and replication product review directoryI. Introduction II. Veeam Backup and...

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by Gabe at November 19, 2009 08:30 PM

vShield Zones - Get those blog entries in!

VMware vSphere Blog

You have 2 days until our deadline. Get those entries in for your chance at $100.

by Michael Adams at November 19, 2009 08:30 PM

Review: PHD Virtual Technologies’ esXpress 3.6

Gabe's Virtual World (Gabrie van Zanten)

Part 3 of my backup products review has been released at SearchVMware.com. Follow the link below to see my reviews Backup and replication product review directoryI. Introduction II. Veeam Backup and...

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by Gabe at November 19, 2009 08:28 PM

PowerCLI and the SDK – Part 1

LucD notes (Luc Dekens)

In the Developer forum there was an interesting post called Resources for folks new to the vSphere Web Services SDK. Now unfortunately the Hello World guide was (again) only aimed at Java programmers. Although PowerCLI is nearing perfection, you sometimes will have to go to the SDK methods and…

by LucD at November 19, 2009 08:23 PM

Why use vShield Zones?

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

VMware introduced vShield Zones as part of the vSphere release along with VMware Data Recovery as a value-added product that is available in certain editions. I’m always interested in virtualization security products so I spent a lot of time checking out the product which resulted in me writing a…

by Eric Siebert at November 19, 2009 08:08 PM

Keeping your RHEL VMs from crushing your storage at 4:02am

thinking sysadmin (Andy Leonard)

Running a lot of Red Hat VMs in your virtual infrastructure, on shared storage? CentOS, Scientific Linux, both versions 4 and 5, they count for these purposes; Fedora should likely be included too. Do you have the slocate (version 4.x and earlier) or mlocate (version 5.x) RPMs installed? If…

by Andy at November 19, 2009 07:39 PM

VIDEO: Installing the vSphere Client in Windows 7

David Davis, Virtualization Blogger (VirtualizationAdmin.com)

While the vSphere Client does install fine in Windows 7, it is when you attempt to connect to your vCenter Server that you discover there is a problem. VMware doesn't officially support the vSphere Client under Windows 7 but there is a workaround to make it work. In this video, I cover how to get…

by David Davis at November 19, 2009 06:48 PM

VIDEO: Installing the vSphere Client in Windows 7

VMware Videos (David Davis)

While the vSphere Client does install fine in Windows 7, it is when you attempt to connect to your vCenter Server that you discover there is a problem. VMware doesn’t officially support the vSphere Client under Windows 7 but there is a workaround to make it work. In this video, I cover how to get…

by David Davis at November 19, 2009 06:46 PM

The release that was (NOT!)

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)



Ok so the detective work was not 100% correct. If it was not for unforeseen circumstances then we should have had a release today

So why was there no release?

The only thing I found was from Andre Leibovici’s Blog

VMware uncovered some upgrade issues from View 3 to View 4 and the new unofficial…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 19, 2009 05:08 PM

Cloud Security: Dilbert Style

Rational Survivability (Chris Hoff)

From: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-19/ Related posts:Cloud Security Link Love: Monk Style…JERICHO FORUM AND CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE JOIN FORCES TO ADDRESS CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITYSecurity and the Cloud – What Does That Even Mean? Related posts:
  1. Cloud Security Link Love: Monk…

by beaker at November 19, 2009 04:29 PM

Dutch VMUG, be there.

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

On the 11th of December the anual Dutch VMUG conference will take place at the Nieuwegein Business Center. Over 600 Dutch VMware Warriors will make a plan to conquer the world, we are the new vikings or should I say vIkings? The final agenda has recently been published and judging on the names and…

by Duncan Epping at November 19, 2009 03:18 PM

The Most Awesome PowerCLI Cmdlet You Aren’t Using

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

While all of PowerCLI is remarkable in both it’s power and ease of use, there are some cmdlets that do not get as much airtime as they deserve. One of those, is Invoke-VMScript. From Get-Help InvokeVMScript NAME     Invoke-VMScript SYNOPSIS     Executes the specified PowerShell…

by bunchc at November 19, 2009 03:03 PM

Where to download VMware Cold Clone

Virtual Black Hole / Tripwire (Steve Beaver)

I had the opportunity recently to try to help a friend on his quest to P2V a Microsoft ISA Server.  We tried all sorts of different setting to allow communication between the ISA and in this case both Virtual Center and a Platespin server trying to get either one to ...

by Steve at November 19, 2009 02:54 PM

VMware View 4.0 Release date postponed till Monday 23 November 2009

Thinstall Guru (Edwin Friesen)

Today should be a big day for VMware! Today, 19th November, is the original date that VMware View 4 with PCoIP comes available. However, VMware uncovered some upgrade issues from View 3 to View 4 and the new unofficial date slipped to 23 November 2009, thus Andre Leibovici (Virtual Cloud)

by edwin at November 19, 2009 02:45 PM

Clean up your Event Logs! WinMgmt Event ID 40

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

Doing his very best to keep Event Logs everywhere pristine, Aaron Silber helps us knock out another pesky EventLog error : Not sure if this is an error that has something to do with machines created/deployed via Citrix Provisioning Services or just...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at November 19, 2009 02:09 PM

Interview - Chris Akerberg from Vizioncore

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

<img>The President and Chief Operating Officer of Vizioncore, Chris Akerberg is currently in Sydney Australia so I look the opportunity to ask him some questions about the company and their products.

Chris has been with the company for a number of years, before the acquisition by Quest. Since…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 19, 2009 01:42 PM

VMotion stops working after upgrading to vSphere 4.0

Virtualised Reality

A CPU of the host is incompatible error appears and VMotion stops working after upgrading to vSphere 4.0 Just experienced this issue and found the resolution on VMware’s Kb 1011294 >> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1011294 posted here…

by Barry at November 19, 2009 11:45 AM

Drobo configuration

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

Have you ever wondered how long it would take for a 12 year old child to configure a Drobo storage device? Well you are about to find out. In this short time lapse film you can see it for yourself!



[Watch the video to see the answer]

I was lucky enough to win this Drobo from Data Robotics at the…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 19, 2009 11:36 AM

Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step

VMBlog (David Marshall)

Contributed article by Ken Oestreich, VP, Egenera Inc. Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step 2010 will be an interesting year for... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at November 19, 2009 11:27 AM

VIDEO: VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch and vSphere

Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi)

Two great Videos from vmwaretv explains a great feature in vSpere: Distribuited Switch.


The theory:


the practice:


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by Manlio Frizzi (noreply@blogger.com) at November 19, 2009 10:47 AM

Over-commiting your infrastructure for multi-tenant DR with Cisco UCS

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

The best part of my job is working directly with customers, sharing what I know and learning new applications of UCS from them. This week I explored a brilliant use case for UCS with a customer – overcommitting blade resources for multi-tenant DR with Cisco UCS. If you provide DR for multiple…

by Steve Chambers at November 19, 2009 08:41 AM

Backing up Free version of VMware ESXi 4 with Free VCBGhetto v.2

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Free backup tool GhettoVCB2 was released. There has been new version of free script for backing up the VMware’s free version of ESXi 4 . As you shoud know (and I’m sure you do), with the free version of ESXi you don’t have a console (unless you use the unsupported mode – not recommended,…

by Vladan SEGET at November 19, 2009 08:40 AM

VMware View 4.0 Release Date Postponed

Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici)

If you woke up this morning expecting to download and start the evaluations your own VMware View 4.0 and PCoIP QA session you will be disappointed. VMware uncovered some upgrade issues from View 3 to View 4 and the new unofficial date slipped to Monday 23/11. It also looks like the vSphere 4.0…

by Andre Leibovici at November 19, 2009 06:53 AM

Performance of Thin Provisioned Disks

Pivot Point (Scott Drummonds [VMware])

I have received questions about thin provisioned disk performance since we announced their full support in vSphere.  The questions usually center around scalability issues.  VMware’s customers fear locking contention as new blocks are created for growing disks and think that growing thin disks…

by Scott at November 19, 2009 04:46 AM

User Experience Status

VMware Communities Blog

Work is currently underway to make some improvements and fixes to the user experience on VMware Communities following the recently launched new site design. Most of these improvements are in response to requests made at Communities Website Feedback, and based on those requests, we've prioritized…

by RDellimmagine at November 19, 2009 02:42 AM

VMware View4 and PCoIP

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

Well, I thought it would be nice to discuss the attributes and features of VMware View4 new PCoIP protocol which will be released very shortly. In case you don’t PCoIP stands for PC over IP - and then intention is to deliver remote display protocol which rivals “legacy” thin-client protocols…

by Mike Laverick at November 19, 2009 12:07 AM

Comparing the I/O Performance of 2 or more Virtual Machines SSD, SATA & IOmeter

vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)

  I’m currently doing some work on SSD storage and virtual machines so I need an easy way of comparing I/O performance between a couple of virtual machines, each backed onto different types of storage. I normally use IOmeter for this kind of work but generally only in a standalone manner – i.e…

by vinf at November 19, 2009 12:07 AM

November 18, 2009

Is today the day for Update 1??

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)



No official sources, but a small bit of detective work.

I hate rumors, but it has already started on Twitter.

Trickles of info also from here  and here.

The talk is that View 4.0 will only work with ESX(i) 4 Update 1. View will be released tomorrow.

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From the View Press Release

Pricing and…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 18, 2009 11:23 PM

VMTN Podcast number 73, VMworld Booth Rack at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

Kind of a weird topic for a Podcast but this week the discussions was around the “VMworld Booth Rack at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day”. As always you can download this episode here and I have gathered the following links which were posted during in the chat window: VMETC – MDS and Xsigo Power…

by Duncan Epping at November 18, 2009 10:51 PM

Securing COMSTAR and VMware iSCSI connections

Ubiquitous Talk (Mike La Spina)

Connecting VMware iSCSI sessions to COMSTAR or any iSCSI target provider securely is required to maintain a reliable system. Without some level of initiator to target connection gate keeping we will eventually encounter a security event. This can happen from a variety of sources, for example…

by Mike La Spina at November 18, 2009 10:40 PM

Events, Dear Boy, Events – Part 2

LucD notes (Luc Dekens)

In a previous entry (see Events: a great source of information – Part 1) I showed how to use the VmCreatedEvent event to find out which guests were created longer than 30 days ago. In the vSphere SDK documentation there are currently 432 events listed. That makes it sometimes hard to decide which…

by LucD at November 18, 2009 10:39 PM

Connecting ESX to SAN: PCI Device resource allocation failure

Gerben's Blog on Virtualization (Gerben Kloosterman)

Recently I installed three equal IBM server x 3650 machines with VMware and installed and connected two QLogic HBA’s in each server. After installing ESX I ran into a problem with one of the machines trying to connect to the datastores. Two of the machines perfectly could see all presented luns…

by Gerben at November 18, 2009 10:20 PM

vSphere Upgrade Breaks Active Directory

VMtoday.com (Joshua Townsend)

I recently completed a VMware VI 3.5 to vSphere upgrade in a small environment (5 hosts, 80 VM’s).  Being a small environment, the upgrade was planned for one big overnight blitz.  Unfortunately, the size of the environment did not afford a test environment to uncover potential issues before the…

by Joshua Townsend at November 18, 2009 09:40 PM

Offline for a few weeks…

vinternals (Stuart Radnidge)

Yes i know, it’s been a while since my last post anyway . In a few days I’ll be heading back to my hometown of Sydney (via Tokyo – I love Japan) for a few weeks, so the internets will be a little less ranty for a little while. And unfortunately, I’ll be missing the [...]

by stu at November 18, 2009 08:29 PM

Oracle, Apple, and the VMwareCiscoEMC coalition

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

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So far we have dedicated a lot of space to Oracle, in terms of what virtualization offering it could provide and what mistakes may compromise its presence as a relevant player.

The Sun acquisition has not closed yet, so the company cannot disclose any specific plan. Without concrete…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 18, 2009 08:09 PM

What can we learn about DR from survival situations?

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

From the time I was little I was always taught to be prepared. I took outdoor survival classes and first aid courses in the evenings long before I was old enough to drive. My vehicles have extra tools in them. When mountain biking in Moab I carried enough equipment to rebuild a small nuclear…

by Mak King at November 18, 2009 08:02 PM

in the ghetto….

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

William Lam just updated two of his most popular scripts. If you haven’t looked at them yet, make sure you do as they are worth it. ghettoVCB(g2) enables the backup of virtual machines residing on either an ESX or ESXi host. ghettoVCBg2 is a complete rewritten and enhanced version of ghettoVCB or…

by Duncan Epping at November 18, 2009 07:47 PM

Wow 1TB consumer-grade SSDs hit the street.

Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac)

Anyone doubting that 2010 will be an inflection point on solid-state storage? We now have consumer-grade 40GB drive at $115 (talked about here), and a 1TB drive at $3.5K. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1562474/one-terabyte-ssd-hits-shops While these are consumer drives, and are missing the…

by Chad Sakac at November 18, 2009 06:48 PM

Learn how to configure VMware ESX Server Alarms

VMware Videos (David Davis)

In my new VirtualizationAdmin.com article, I cover how to configure VMware ESX Server Alarms properly. For example, the difference between defined alarms and triggered alarms, and how alarms work in the vSphere heirarchy. Read the full artile at- Learn how to configure VMware ESX Server Alarms

by David Davis at November 18, 2009 06:12 PM

Project Onyx Alpha Release

A. Mikkelsen (Anders Mikkelsen)

Finally everyone outside the closed beta is now able to get hands on with the cool application Project Onyx. Thanks to Carter Shanklin Project overview - Got it from http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1330-Project-Onyx-Alpha-Release.html Onyx is a standalone application that serves as a proxy between…

by A. Mikkelsen at November 18, 2009 05:05 PM

VMware extends vSphere Enterprise licensing, but it's a catch-22

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

Originally VMware planned to expire Enterprise licensing on Dec. 12, 2009. Plans have changed, but upgrading later could be drastically more expensive. Meanwhile, VMware still isn't paying enough attention to the SMB market, which it needs to if it wants to stay on top.

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by Eric Siebert, Contributor at November 18, 2009 04:08 PM

Ocarina Networks

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

The analyst industry is telling us that unstructured data growth is going to outpace that of transactional based data. "While transactional data is still projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21.8%, it’s far outpaced by a 61.7% CAGR predicted for unstructured data in traditional…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 18, 2009 03:42 PM

The Truth About Storage Hot Add and Remove

VCritical (Eric Gray [VMware])

VMware vSphere 4 supports a range of hot storage management technologies: vStorage VMFS Volume Grow Hot Extend for Virtual Disks Hot Virtual Disk Add/Remove With these capabilities, if space gets tight in your vSphere environment, it is easy to be proactive and address the issue before anyone…

by Eric Gray at November 18, 2009 03:34 PM

Get a move on and do your VCP4 upgrade

vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)

  If you are a VCP3 you’ll need to get a move on and upgrade your certification to VCP4 unless you have time to sit (and pay for) some classroom training next year – you need to have passed the exam before December 31st 2009 (i.e in 43 days time!) Also bear in mind there might be [...]

by vinf at November 18, 2009 03:16 PM

NewSid, no more?!... Say it aint so!

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

I called this one back in February! http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2009/02/duplicate-sids-big-deal-why-you-might.html and Aaron Silber sent me over this note to confirm it! :) Looks like our old friend has been put to bed. ...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at November 18, 2009 02:58 PM

A new ThinApp version of the Health Analyzer has been released

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

What is VMware HealthAnalyzer? VMware HealthAnalyzer automates the collection of VMware Infrastructure or VMware vSphere inventory, configuration and utilization data, analyzes data and recommends grades, and generates a report card that presents data categorized by VMware Health Check best…

by Eric Sloof at November 18, 2009 01:51 PM

Disabling Copy Paste – The PowerCLI way

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

Today I needed to disable the VMware tools/console copy & paste functionality… on a lot of VMs (well… more than one is a lot). In doing this, I came across these directions from vmzare: How To disable copy and paste operations between the guest operating system and remote console ? 1. Log on to…

by bunchc at November 18, 2009 01:39 PM

Virtualization Short Take #31

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

This is Virtualization Short Take #31, another installation in my irregularly-published series of articles that share useful or interesting links in the world of virtualization.

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers,…

by slowe at November 18, 2009 01:00 PM

Virtualization Analysis and Predictions for 2010 from Fortisphere

VMBlog (David Marshall)

What do Virtualization and Cloud executives think about 2010? Find out in this VMblog.com series exclusive. Contributed article by Lilac Berniker,... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at November 18, 2009 11:34 AM

Licensing Considerations for vCenter Linked Mode

Going Virtual (Brian Norris)

Vmware vCenter Linked Mode enables a common inventory view across multiple instances of vCenter Server. Over the last year Ive deployed a number of VI3 systems with Site Recovery Manager in the mix and one of the things that always annoyed me was having to manage each site separately. Now with…

by Brian Norris at November 18, 2009 11:32 AM

Real-time view of ESX Logs in the Service Console

The SLOG (Simon Long)

A collegue of mine just gave a me a few tips on how to view the logfiles on an ESX Host in Real-time. Normally I would export all of the logs via the VIC or the vm-support command. But this limits me to only seeing what has happened, not what is currently happening. Using the VMware [...]


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by Simon Long at November 18, 2009 10:49 AM

Creating a VDI template

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

Herco van Brug wrote a great article on how to build a solid VDI/View Windows XP Template. Herco recently designed and implemented a large View environment and this article is the outcome. I only quoted the first paragraph as the article is subject to change. Please visit the source article for the…

by Duncan Epping at November 18, 2009 10:29 AM

Your Organization’s Desktop Virtualization Project – Part 3

Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici)

I finally found sometime to finalise the third and last part of this article. In the first part of this article I discussed the Business Drivers and Operational Benefits, Technology Savings and Operational Improvements of a properly deployed Desktop Virtualization project -  and in the second part…

by Andre Leibovici at November 18, 2009 10:23 AM

A True Nehalem Whitebox for ESX4

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

The past few days the experts from inPeople and inVirtualize have been working on their Nehalem Whitebox. This great setup with an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme 1366 processor has the pleasure to ultra-fast take use of the enclosed 16Gbyte of memory. Of course they've added some other speedy goodies…

by Eric Sloof at November 18, 2009 09:52 AM

TechHead Needs YOU!!

The SLOG (Simon Long)

A fellow VMware enthusiast and personal friend Simon Seagrave, has announced that his website http://www.techhead.co.uk has been shortlised for a Computer Weekly Blog Award. The actual award title is: Individual IT Professional Male If you haven’t seen the TechHead website, you really should get…

by Simon Long at November 18, 2009 08:58 AM

Project Onyx, for non scripting people…

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Project ONYX is a very interesting initiative from The PowerCLI team. What is Onyx and how it can helps you to write scripts. I never write scripts. I’m not a programmer. The only think I can do is to adapt existing scripts a little.. that’s all. I’m sure that I’m not alone. Not everyone…

by Vladan SEGET at November 18, 2009 08:41 AM

OS X Expose Clone for Windows

vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)

  One of the main things I miss as I switch between a Mac and PC is the lack of decent multi-window manager support in Windows – alt-tab and win-tab are great but I find them cumbersome. A particular bug bear of mine is if you have to manage multiple terminal services sessions to servers/virtual…

by vinf at November 18, 2009 01:07 AM

Big Improvements to Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 R2

Petri IT Knowledgebase

Windows Server 2008 R2 brings big improvements in the virtualization area. Learn about Hot-Add VM Storage, Enhanced Processor Support, Enhanced Networking Support, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), Live Migration and more...

by Daniel Petri at November 18, 2009 12:02 AM

November 17, 2009

Just A Reflective Bookmark: Microsoft’s Azure…The Dark Horse Emergeth…

Rational Survivability (Chris Hoff)

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Don’t underestimate Microsoft and the potential disruption Azure will deliver.* You might not get Microsoft’s strategy for Azure. Heck, much of Microsoft may not get Microsoft’s strategy for Azure, but one thing is for sure: Azure will be THE…

by beaker at November 17, 2009 09:59 PM

Access Console in Linux Guest

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)



Have you ever had the issue of wanting to go into the console of a Linux Virtual Machine that is running at RUNLEVEL 5 (GUI) - because you are one of those Linux geeks who think that GUI is for the weak?

Seriously though - sometimes you need to access the console - to try and fix up something that…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 17, 2009 09:13 PM

Advertising? Or just name calling?

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

I do like advertising from time to time. I think advertising gives away a lot about how companies operate and what their internal values are. You also find out if the company understands their market and their potential users. When looking for VMware View articles with Google I came across an ad for…

by Anne Jan Elsinga at November 17, 2009 07:08 PM

Asking the right questions is key

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

I was talking with some friends, a project manager, a few windows server guys and a CIO, we had met for drinks at one of the pubs in the city to see how we were all getting on. Anyway, one of the server guys was telling us: “How ridiculous it is that we’re moving servers from [...] Related…

by Martin at November 17, 2009 06:53 PM

Rackspace taking names for Cloud Server Windows Beta

VMHero (Ryan)

Rackspace is now taking names for their beta program for Cloud Servers for Windows. They plan to launch the beta in early 2010 with competitive pricing (vs their Linux servers): Cloud Servers for Windows Server Size Hourly Charge 512 MB $ 0.04 1 GB $ 0.08 2 GB $ 0.16 4 GB $…

by Todd at November 17, 2009 06:01 PM

ESX Cluster through WAN with Netapp Metro Cluster

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

Recently there are some request from my client who suggested to have their production and DR site to be automated protected and fail over in the event of disaster. VMware SRM seems to be right choice for most of the time, but these clients are decided to bring it to another level of fail over [...]…

by craig at November 17, 2009 04:40 PM

Presenting at London VMware Users Group Meeting (VMUG) November 24th

vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)

  The esteemed Mr Techhead and I will be presenting on how to build a low-cost lab environment for work, study and play at this month’s VMUG in London. We will be bringing our own equipment and hope to have lots of (working!) demos of what you can do with low-cost server kit and interesting…

by vinf at November 17, 2009 04:38 PM

Storage Short Take #5

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

Welcome back to Storage Short Takes! Here's a collection of recently-uncovered storage-related links, posts, and articles. I hope you find something useful or interesting.

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers,…

by slowe at November 17, 2009 04:35 PM

Issues with Citrix’s ICA Client 11.2

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

Sam Jacobs dropped this quick note on me this week. “I have been noticing an increasing number of posts on the Citrix forums concerning issues with the 11.2 version of the ICA client.  One issue that has come up repeatedly, is the...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at November 17, 2009 04:34 PM

PowerShell Gotcha – Export-CSV, Out-GridView and others

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

I came across this one a little while back and was hoping it would be fixed in V2, I haven’t seen anyone else mention it so I thought I would add it to my blog as a warning to other PowerShell freaks like me…. I have changed the example to be more universal so you get [...]

by Virtu-Al at November 17, 2009 04:31 PM

VMware Ready logo extended to software

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

As more software vendors support their applications running in virtual machines, VMware has extended its VMware Ready logo to these applications.

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by Alex Barrett, News Director at November 17, 2009 04:12 PM

Onyx – Why Learn PowerCLI ?

LucD notes (Luc Dekens)

The PowerCLI Team yesterday published with the Onyx Project a great tool with lots of potential. The blogging community received Carter’s announcement enthousiastically (see for example The Onyx has landed). As a casual PowerCLI user you might think, the product has a strange name but it is the…

by LucD at November 17, 2009 04:09 PM

VMware View 4 – Overview.

TechHead (Simon Seagrave)

VMware have recently announced the latest release of it’s desktop virtualization product, VMware View 4 with the GA being on the 19th November. This version of VMware View includes the PCoIP Protocol from Teredici which greatly assists in the smooth streaming of desktop video over varying…

by Kiwi Si at November 17, 2009 04:06 PM

vSphere: Storage vMotion Fails with a Timeout

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

When I tried to Storage vMotion a VM to another LUN I got an “operation timed out error”: After analyzing the vpxd.log, I found the following lines: The best part I found out, is that the VM was rolled back to it’s old location without losing data or getting corrupt. This problem is…

by afokkema at November 17, 2009 03:53 PM

Advanced vDR Configuration

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

After you’ve spent the time installing VMware Data Recovery (vDR), you may find that some of the defaults do not work well. Some of these, like the retention policies are an easy change. Others, like the behavior of the vDR appliance, however, are a bit more difficult. To that end, you can create…

by bunchc at November 17, 2009 02:59 PM

VMware What’s New training (weekend edition) for inPeople

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

The past weekend I’ve delivered a special edition of the VMware vSphere What’s New training for the VMware gurus working at inPeople. The What’s New training is a hands-on training course which explores new features in VMware vCenter Server 4 and ESX/ESXi 4, as well as how to upgrade to VMware…

by Eric Sloof at November 17, 2009 02:32 PM

Onyx – Why Learn PowerCLI ?

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

The PowerCLI Team yesterday published with the Onyx Project a great tool with lots of potential. The blogging community received Carter’s announcement enthousiastically (see my previous post The Onyx has landed). As a casual PowerCLI user you might think, the product has a strange name but it is…

by Virtu-Al at November 17, 2009 02:29 PM

Predictions for 2010 – the year virtual machines go invisible

VMBlog (David Marshall)

What do Virtualization and Cloud executives think about 2010? Find out in this VMblog.com series exclusive. Contributed article by Zvi Guterman, CEO... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at November 17, 2009 12:03 PM

Where is Virtualization and the Cloud Headed in 2010? A VMblog Prediction Series

VMBlog (David Marshall)

Are you curious to hear where virtualization and cloud company executives believe the industry is headed in 2010? Following up on last year's... Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at November 17, 2009 11:47 AM

Cisco UCS deploy and ESXi 4 install guides

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

Cisco have posted two documents into their support forum around deploying the Unified Computing System (UCS)

Deploying UCS Blade Server with UCS Manager for Virtualization

The documents include many screen shots and may serve as a…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 17, 2009 11:28 AM

PowerCLI: One-Liner to get VMs, Clusters, ESX Hosts and Datastores

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

With the one-liner below, you’re able to create an overview of your VM’s, Clusters, ESX Hosts and Datastores. Get-VM | Select Name, @{N="Cluster";E={Get-Cluster -VM $_}}, ` @{N="ESX Host";E={Get-VMHost -VM $_}}, ` @{N="Datastore";E={Get-Datastore -VM $_}} The following output will be generated:…

by afokkema at November 17, 2009 11:11 AM

New Book: VMware Certified Professional (VCP) on vSphere 4 Study Guide (Exam VCP-410)

HyperViZor (Hany Michael)

If you are following me on twitter, you must have noticed that every now and again I tweet about a new vSphere book, and then one day later someone will blog about it (the book not my tweet of course ) For a change, and to get myself used to short blog posts (without all [...]

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by Hany Michael at November 17, 2009 10:00 AM

Iceotope announces liquid-cooled server technology

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

http://www.realwire.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=14283 Supercomputing 2009, Portland Oregon; 17th November 2009: Iceotope (www.iceotope.com) today launched its new liquid-cooled server technology. The system is believed to be the first to use modular “liquid immersion” of the server…

by Martin at November 17, 2009 09:00 AM

If imitation is flattery, Microsoft MultiPoint will make NComputing blush

Brian Madden Blog

Last week Microsoft announced something called Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 , a technology for classrooms that lets up to ten students use individual terminals to share the resources of one single host computer. In technical terms you could think of...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at November 17, 2009 07:35 AM

Project Onyx released – How to connect and use it

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

Carter Shanklin just announced the release of Project Onyx. She his post here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/11/project-onyx-is-here.html Download the zip file from here: http://tinyurl.com/ygayony extract the zip file and start Onyx.exe. If you’re starting Onyx from your c: drive and…

by afokkema at November 17, 2009 07:15 AM

Thik or thin, that is a question?

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

New performance whitepaper from VROOM blog . If you ever doubted any performance issues due to using Thin provisioned disks, you should read this whitepaper. In fact there are just very little performance loss (if any) when using thin disks. The benefit of using thin disks over thick disks is quite…

by Vladan SEGET at November 17, 2009 06:57 AM

“Project Onyx” is here.

vSphere PowerCLI Blog

A few months ago we announced a very exciting new application we call “Project Onyx”. To put it simply, Project Onyx is a script recorder for vSphere Client. Since then my inbox has been flooded with requests from all over...

by Carter Shanklin at November 17, 2009 05:14 AM

The A6 (Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API) Working Group is Live. Please join & read the intro.

Rational Survivability (Chris Hoff)

For those of you following along at home, the A6 (Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API) Working Group is Live. I’ve setup the Google group so please join & read the introduction here. Hope to see you there. /Hoff Related posts:Follow-On: The Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance…

by beaker at November 17, 2009 05:00 AM

MDS and Xsigo Power VMware GETO Mobile Demo and VMworld Booth Rack

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

The VMworld 2009 Hands on Labs (HOL) VI was not the only VMware Global Engineering Technical Operations Team (GETO) managed infrastructure at the Moscone Center in 2009. The VMware Cloud Pavilion Booth and it’s demos, some customer demos, and even the VMTN Lounge and vExpert booth (I used…

by Rich Brambley at November 17, 2009 03:10 AM

What’s new at vSphere-land

vSphere-land (Eric Siebert)

I thought I’d give an update on some of the new things happening on this website. The vLaunchpad has been updated and over-hauled, the blog roll has been alphabetized for easier viewing. I’ve added a new Storage blogs category since virtualization and storage seem to be so closely tied to each…

by esiebert7625 at November 17, 2009 02:29 AM

Performance Study of VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning

VROOM! (VMware Performance [VMware])

vStorage Thin Provisioning, a key component of VMware vSphere™, is a technology that redefines storage provisioning by allocating space on demand to the virtual disks. We recently published a paper that gives the details of this feature and discusses experiments...

by Mandar Kulkarni at November 17, 2009 12:48 AM

November 16, 2009

The Onyx has landed

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

A couple of months ago Carter Shanklin (Product Manager of Automating the World) teased us all with a wonderful application which creates PowerCLI scripts for you by tracing your actions in the vCenter Client. The scripts it produces are not PowerCLI perfect but they do produce a raw format of a…

by Virtu-Al at November 16, 2009 10:06 PM

Project Onyx Alpha Release

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

Carter Shanklin just released the alpha version of project Onyx trough Twitter and YouTube. Onyx generates PowerShell code to help you solve your toughest automation challenges. See the full demonstration with a complete explanation of how to use Onyx at YouTube. Once you have downloaded Project…

by Eric Sloof at November 16, 2009 10:01 PM

ONYX - Go forth and PowerCLI'ze!

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)



I have been waiting for this ever since it was announced at VMWorld 2009.

Carter Shanklin just announced tonight!

Been waiting to try "Project Onyx" the PowerCLI script generator for VMware vSphere? Check out http://is.gd/4Wxmc

Here is a small Demo

Go forth and PowerCLI'ze !!

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by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 16, 2009 09:34 PM

Introduction to Vmware View 4

virtualfuture.info (Huisman, Haverink, & Van Zanten)

This week VMware will release VMware View 4, “the industry’s first purpose built solution for delivering desktops as a managed service” as VMware calls it. I don’t know about that, but at least this release is a step in the right direction. The 2 big improvements View 4 brings are the new…

by Sven Huisman at November 16, 2009 09:16 PM

Citrix XenDesktop 4 released and available for download

virtualfuture.info (Huisman, Haverink, & Van Zanten)

The moment is here, XenDesktop 4 is available! Much awaited and true to their promise Citrix has just officially made XenDesktop 4 available for download on the download page of MyCitrix.com : http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=163057 (you need to be registered and…

by Matthijs Haverink at November 16, 2009 09:06 PM

Yep I passed! - My VCDX Admin Exam

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)



On October 26th, I sat the VCDX Administration Exam. Today I received notification that I passed.

Now if you were following me on Twitter then you would have seen that I was not at all happy with the feeling I left the Exam with.

My experience.

It was taken in the Pearson testing Center in Tel-…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 16, 2009 09:04 PM

vReference card 2nd page beta

vReference (Forbes Guthrie)

I’ve been working hard on creating the supplementary page that I discussed and asked for feedback here. I’ve been concentrating on the areas which are mentioned in the VCP4 blueprints, but are not covered in the card at the moment.  These are core parts of vSphere, but a probably not as…

by Forbes Guthrie at November 16, 2009 08:30 PM

New articles published for week ending 11/15009

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

In the last week these items are added or edited in VMware’s Knowledgebase at http://kb.vmware.com VMware FusionCreating a custom virtual machine in Fusion (1013810)Date Published: 11/11/2009 VMware vCenter OrchestratorvCenter Orchestrator fails to install when Terminal Server is running…

by Anne Jan Elsinga at November 16, 2009 08:20 PM

London VMware Users Group (VMUG) – November 2009

TechHead (Simon Seagrave)

Just a quick post to remind those of you in the South of England that the London based VMware Users Group is happening Tuesday 24th November. Simon Gallagher (vinf.net) and myself (Simon Seagrave) will be presenting a session on putting together and running your own VMware vSphere home or work…

by Kiwi Si at November 16, 2009 06:32 PM

VMware at a glance: AT&T enters the cloud; VCE concerns; View 4 commentary and more

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

This week's VMware at-a-glance news roundup includes AT&T's venture into the cloud, how users responded to the Virtual Computing Environment initiative, VMware Ready software and middleware, View 4 and more.

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by Hannah L. Drake at November 16, 2009 06:04 PM

Final Dutch VMUG 2009 Agenda Released

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

<img>The Dutch VMUG conference will take place at the Nieuwegein Business Center. On the 11th of December over 600 enthusiastic Vmug members will enjoy a day full of virtualization. For the fifth year in succession you can attend a lot of really technical sessions. So if you are living near…

by Eric Sloof at November 16, 2009 05:51 PM

Understanding Snapshots in VMware ESX

VMware Knowledge Base Blog

One aspect of virtual machines that often leads to confusion is the snapshot. What is a snapshot? How do snapshots work? What products use the snapshot feature? What files are involved in snapshots? These questions and more are all discussed...

by Knowledge Champion at November 16, 2009 05:46 PM

HP acquires 3Com. What’s next?

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

hp logo

In the last two years Cisco made at least two long-term key investments in the server market: invested over $150 million in VMware and became a player with its own blade system Unified Computing System (UCS).

Cisco wants to sell and interconnect next generation data centers. To do so it…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 05:08 PM

Citrix XenDesktop 4 available for download today!

Thinstall Guru (Edwin Friesen)

Today, 16th November 2009, Citrix XenDesktop 4 is available for download from the MyCitrix downloads page. Citrix XenDesktop 4 is a groundbreaking new product that makes virtual desktops a mainstream reality for hundreds of millions of corporate users for the first time ever. Unlike first-generation…

by edwin at November 16, 2009 04:26 PM

Iomega IX4-200d

Jase's Place (Jase McCarty)

I received a package on Friday from Chad Sakac and EMC.  I’d like to start by saying Thank You for the most excellent piece of equipment. I didn’t have much time to work with it this weekend, given that I was floating around the Gulf of Mexico when my IX4-200d arrived.  Couple the cruise with…

by Jase at November 16, 2009 03:58 PM

Thinking Out Loud: Is VMware Legitimizing the Competition?

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

I had an interesting revelation this morning: VMware's own actions are legitimizing their competition and removing one of their competitive advantages.

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other…

by slowe at November 16, 2009 01:13 PM

New articles published for week ending 11/15009

VMware Knowledge Base Weekly Digest

VMware Fusion Creating a custom virtual machine in Fusion (1013810) Date Published: 11/11/2009 VMware vCenter Orchestrator vCenter Orchestrator fails to install when Terminal Server is running (1015658) Date Published: 11/13/2009 VMware vCenter Update Manager Cannot scan ESX hosts after using...

by Amandeep Gill at November 16, 2009 12:53 PM

Way cool ICA App Launcher!

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

Written by Aaron Silber : If anyone has recently upgraded their Citrix client you find (or not be able to find!) that Citrix has removed a lot from Program Neighborhood. As a matter of fact there is no Program Neighborhood anymore! Citrix wants...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at November 16, 2009 12:40 PM

Geographically dispersed cluster design

Arnim van Lieshout

Nowadays more and more companies have or are considering a 2nd datacenter in another site. Mostly the main reason for this 2nd datacenter is for disaster recovery purposes. There are 2 ways to utilize this 2nd datacenter. First one could choose for an active-passive setup, where in the 2nd…

by Arnim van Lieshout at November 16, 2009 12:08 PM

VKernel defends against VMware attack, offers flagship product for free

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

vkernel logo

At the end of October VMware released its first capacity planning tool: CapacityIQ.

As always happens when a market leader expands into a new segment, its previous partners suddenly turn into competitors.
Some of them are able to keep the pace and deliver value on top of the new…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 11:43 AM

Xen Cloud Platform hits version 0.1

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

citrix logo

At the end of August, Citrix announced a new major effort around Xen and cloud computing to counter the release of VMware vCloud Express.

The details of this project were scarce at that time and beyond the name, Xen Cloud Platform (XCP), and the intent to integrate new and existing…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 11:34 AM

No updates for Microsoft Virtual Machines Manager before 2011

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

microsoft logo

Last week, at its TechEd Conference in Berlin, Microsoft published updated roadmaps for most of its products.
The most interesting one from a virtualization perspective is the one about System Center family.

It seems that Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) will not receive any major…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 11:19 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management hits Beta 2

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

microsoft logo

Five months after the first beta, Microsoft is ready to push out the beta 2 of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Management, a special version of the popular IDE that interacts with Hyper-V R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 to provide a fully featured…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 11:12 AM

Tech Field Day: Thoughts About Presenting To Engineers

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

GestaltIT Tech Field Day is over, and the attendees and sponsors have indicated they were extremely pleased with the event. This is not to say that everything went well the whole time. In fact, if you followed along on the social media conversation then you caught some interesting tweets and replies…

by Rich Brambley at November 16, 2009 11:00 AM

Will the Intel/AMD settlement solve virtualization compatibility issues?

InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are calling a truce and burying the legal hatchet with one another. In a move to clear up a long-standing allegation that Intel has abused monopoly power to thwart competition, Intel will pay rival chipmaker AMD the sum of $1.25 billion to settle all…

by David Marshall at November 16, 2009 11:00 AM

Happy Days - Fusion and Shrink Disk

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

Happy days? Why you ask. Well ditching your Windows laptop and moving to a Macbook Pro with Fusion is happy days!

My kids have had a MacBook for a year and I knew I need to get my own permanent machine when the kids started complaining because I was using it so much. I once took it away to a…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 16, 2009 10:57 AM

Release: VMware View 4.0 (with software-only PCoIP)

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

vmware logo

Last week VMware finally released the much awaited View 4.0, which supports vSphere 4.0 and introduces the software-only version of the Teradici remote desktop protocol PCoIP.

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VMware is offering two versions of View 4: Enterprise (which includes…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 10:47 AM

The number of virtual environements will be multiplied by 10 during the next 2 years

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

There has been held an Virtualization event in Prague (Czech Republic) the 3rd of this months called Virtualization Forum 2009. One of the attendants Petr Buchmaier is also an author of Czech website windowsportal.cz with a virtualization section.  Even though the websites are in Czech language and…

by Vladan SEGET at November 16, 2009 10:23 AM

iSCSI Super Friends

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

Since last week I’ve got a new assignment which is a long way from home. Next to the downsides of traveling 5 hours a day and staying in hotels, it certainly has advantages. During my 5 hour drive or when I’m staying in a hotel i have time to listen to the VMware Community Roundtable podcasts…

by Erik Scholten at November 16, 2009 10:19 AM

Release: Lanamark Suite 2009 R2

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

lanamark logo

Last week Lanamark, another startup that, like VKernel, could be impacted by the launch of VMware CapacityIQ, released Suite 2009 R2.

And like VKernel, Lanamark is looking around, introducing support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, along with refreshed support for VMware (now up to…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 09:51 AM

Release: Parallels Desktop for Mac 5.0

virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli)

parallels logo

Just a few weeks after the release of VMware Fusion 3.0, Parallels answers with Desktop for Mac 5.0.

The company released the previous edition of this hosted virtualization platform exactly one year ago.

The new version 5.0 focuses on performance, claiming a 300% improvement on…

by alessandro.perilli@virtualization.info (Alessandro Perilli) at November 16, 2009 09:38 AM

Is VDI finally cheaper than traditional PCs for CapEx?

Brian Madden Blog

One of the promises of VDI has always been that it’s "cheaper" than traditional PCs. (Actually, that's a promise of server-based computing in general, not just VDI.) Anyone who's looked into this quickly learns there are two kinds...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at November 16, 2009 05:01 AM

I’m Having An Affair – With VMware Player 3.0

Professional VMware (Cody Bunch)

If that title won’t have my mother calling me… Well, at least it someone’s attention. Prior to VMware Player 3.0 I never gave it much time of day. Sure it worked, and sure there was a way to work around the create VM limitation and the like, but it just wasn’t… well, you got [...]

by bunchc at November 16, 2009 03:32 AM

Another Day, Another Misconfigured Storage

Pivot Point (Scott Drummonds [VMware])

As I continue working with VMware’s Professional Services Organization (PSO) as they develop a performance troubleshooting service, I see repeats of a theme I wrote about a couple of months ago:  storage is causing most performance problems, not VMware.  In fact, I have yet to see a correctly-…

by Scott at November 16, 2009 02:16 AM

Weekly Twitter Updates

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

RT @cswolf: just in time for the holidays. VKernel giving away Capacity Modeler – http://bit.ly/OhWTL. Going to use it as X-Mas gift… # RT @rspruijt: # Citrix XD support for Novell http://bit.ly/25tiqn; # RT @jtroyer: Wednesday on VMware Community podcast live noon PST – VMware View 4…

by ssnowden at November 16, 2009 12:10 AM

November 15, 2009

Iomega IX4-200d

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

This friday I received a package. I felt 10-years old again, it was like unwrapping a Christmas present. One hell of a Christmas present I must say and I want to thank EMC and especially Chad Sakac! I un-boxed the two Iomega IX4-200d units and turned them on. After a couple of minutes I had [...]


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by Duncan Epping at November 15, 2009 11:11 PM

Announcing the BrianMadden.com daily podcast

Brian Madden Blog

Last week we started an experiment where we're publishing audio version of our daily articles in a sort of daily podcast. These are "real" audio versions, with Gabe or me actually recording ourselves explaining the articles. We attach the...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at November 15, 2009 10:14 PM

Scripts for Yellow Bricks’ advise: Thin Provisioning alarm & eagerZeroedThick

LucD notes (Luc Dekens)

On the Yellow Bricks blog there was today a very interesting entry called Performance : Thin Provisioning. Besides the link to the excellent VMware document called Performance Study of VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning, Duncan also included some tips and tricks. Since I’m in favour of automating…

by LucD at November 15, 2009 06:56 PM

How to setup a Shared Recovery Site in VMware Site Recovery Manager

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

This video provides a detailed overview of deploying VMware Site Recovery Manager with the Shared Recovery Site feature.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.0 is a disaster recovery product which uses array replication technologies to failover from one site to another. Shared Recovery Site…

by Eric Sloof at November 15, 2009 05:26 PM

3PAR Autonomic Groups: Mundane VMware Storage Provsioning and Mismatched Socks

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

Take a 9 minute drive around the storage block with Marc Farley of 3PAR as he uses an analogy of mismatched socks to explain how Autonomic Storage can eliminate human error in storage provisioning for virtual servers and databases. In the beginning of the video Marc goes off on a tangent Twitter…

by Rich Brambley at November 15, 2009 01:22 PM

Help Wanted: Virtualization Skills are in Demand

VMBlog (David Marshall)

As virtualization continues to seep into every crack of the data center, the search for virtualization talent continues to grow and becomes much more Read more at VMblog.com.<img>

by David Marshall at November 15, 2009 01:15 PM

Top 5 Planet V12n blog posts week 46

VMTN Blog (Technical News [VMware])

It was a normal week again. No exciting announcements just business as usual. Luckily there are always bloggers who publish articles with refreshing views, new technical details or old technical details overhauled. It wasn't difficult to pick this weeks top-5,...

by Duncan Epping at November 15, 2009 10:23 AM

Performance: Thin Provisioning

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

I had a discussion about Thin Provisioning with a colleague last week. One of the reasons for me not to recommend it yet for high I/O VMs was performance. I had not seen a white-paper or test yet that showed their was little impact of growing the VMDK. Eric Gray of Vcritical.com had the scoop, [...]


by Duncan Epping at November 15, 2009 09:51 AM

Day in the life of a remote user using VMware View with PCoIP

Virtual Desktop Blog (Warren Ponder [VMware])

It has almost been one year since I started being able to use the PCoIP software implementation we have been collaborating on. There has been a lot of questions about how is PCoIP for WAN delivered desktops?

There is no doubt or question delivering a desktop experience across the WAN is one of the…

by wponder at November 15, 2009 08:15 AM

Sharing the knowledge was always been my priority.

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Why using RSS is crucial these days? Since the beginning of this resource website the main reason was to share informations. We live in a world where the informations are in quantity easy accessible and reachable. So if you interest only let say in Server Virtualization. Then you start goggling…

by Vladan SEGET at November 15, 2009 07:01 AM

vSphere Thin-Provisioned Disk Performance

VCritical (Eric Gray [VMware])

Thin disk provisioning is a fully-supported feature in vSphere 4 that can save tons of storage space on your SAN by allowing virtual disks to consume storage space as needed instead all at once. Under the supervision of VMware vCenter Server, ESX 4 thin provisioning is safe and reliable even for…

by Eric Gray at November 15, 2009 06:19 AM

Additional facts or tips on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici)

  Here are some additional interesting facts or tips to complete the excellent list already compiled by Rodney Haywood (@rodos).   Licence Numbers are specific to each physical system’s serial number. Virtual Media Server only mount ISO/IMG files hosted locally  in your workstation (no Map or…

by Andre Leibovici at November 15, 2009 06:04 AM

November 14, 2009

IBM helps secure the virtual infrastructure including vSphere

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

PR Newswire ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM ( IBM) today introduced IBM Virtual Server Security for VMware® vSphere(TM), a software product designed to help organizations secure and protect their virtual server infrastructure. The software will help safeguard virtual server…

by Martin at November 14, 2009 09:14 PM

New Blog Theme!

HyperViZor (Hany Michael)

Following the crowd/trend, starting from the cool new themes of Boche.Net/Blog and Yellow-Bricks.com all the way to the impressive new look and feel of VMware’s website, it’s right about time to refresh my 11 month old theme! I tried to keep the original logo and colors as much as I could. No…

by Hany Michael at November 14, 2009 08:47 PM

What does it cost a Small Business to Implement Virtualization?

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

I get this question all of the time in one form or another, so I’m trying to determine hypervisor costs for a SMB as if I’m the owner looking to implement virtualization. This is an academic exercise, so pretend it’s your company and your money and you don’t have a particular vendor…

by ssnowden at November 14, 2009 06:49 PM

VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack V2

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

As the official download count for V1 of my PowerPack has now hit over 1000 downaloads (I cant thank you all enough), I have now released V2 of my PowerPack for VESI and PowerGUI, this is more like the version I wanted to release first time around. In the first PowerPack, I took a fair few [...]

by Virtu-Al at November 14, 2009 06:28 PM

My PS snapins & modules

LucD notes (Luc Dekens)

In the My PS … series of blog entries this entry lists the SnapIns and Modules I use (regularly). Note that the following list is my personal list and that it is definitely not my aim to list all available PowerShell snapins and modules. That would be a sheer impossible task, seen the abundance of…

by LucD at November 14, 2009 12:05 PM

The Road to Desktop Services

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

Some time ago, in my Desktops R Us post,  I argued for a new vision of delivering applications via desktops in the enterprise.  But how do you get to that vision? Note, when I last talked about Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) people immediately thought I was talking about Cloud, but I wasn’t…

by Steve Chambers at November 14, 2009 12:03 PM

Virtual machine resources: Less is more!

VMGuru.nl (Elsinga, Scholten, Weijdema)

This week a colleague called me with a VMware ESX problem. He’s doing a Exchange 2007 implementation and he configured a virtual machine which should function as the Mailbox server. He was complaining that the virtual machine took 13 to 15 minutes just to boot and he suspected a storage issue as…

by Erik Scholten at November 14, 2009 11:38 AM

Gestalt IT Field Days 2009

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

You will have seen from my recent posts (1, 2, 3) that I have been attending the Gestalt IT Tech Field Days in Silicon Valley, home of all computer nerds.

Unlike your normal conferences and vendor events the Gestalt IT Tech Field days take a different approach to engaging with the vendor community.…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 14, 2009 08:32 AM

Gestalt IT Field Days 2009 Day 2

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

Today was the second day of the Gestalt IT Field Days.

Starting at 7:30am it was a short walk across the street from the Hotel to the offices of Ocarina Networks. Ocarina do content aware storage optimization and they did a great job of taking us through their technologies along with some deep dives…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 14, 2009 07:59 AM

Howto: Using Find command in Service Console

Virtual Infrastructure Tips (Jakob Fabritius N¿rregaard)

From time to time you need to locate stuff in the service console and the only command you got is find. 'Locate' unfortunately hasn't been included in the COS. Typically, I forget the syntax and think of another way of locating files - but actually it's pretty simple.

to use the Find command, do the…

by Jakob Fabritius Nørregaard (noreply@blogger.com) at November 14, 2009 12:43 AM

November 13, 2009

Using the new VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

VMware Videos (David Davis)

Did you know that VIMA has been renamed to vMA ? Or do you have any idea what VIMA and vMA are and how they can help you manage your vSphere infrastructure from the command line? Read my new article – Using the new VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) – to find out the answers to [...]

by David Davis at November 13, 2009 11:08 PM

VCP 4 exam…

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

Today, Friday the 13th, I did my VCP 4 exam. I was a bit nervous as I, literally, only had a couple of hours to prepare. I did however pass. Because I only had a couple of hours to prepare I focused on what I expected to be the most difficult part to score on, [...]


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by Duncan Epping at November 13, 2009 11:07 PM

Tech Field Day : Additional Notes

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

The days here are Tech Field Day have been very packed and exciting.    The conversations have been diving very deep into storage related discussions.  Not really my bag of tricks at that level but interesting for me none the less.  At the 3PAR...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at November 13, 2009 10:14 PM

Don’t make /tmp too small

vReference (Forbes Guthrie)

The default GUI install of ESX4 makes the /tmp partition 1GB and even then it is only categorized as optional.  I’ve been asked several times why you’d want to make /tmp any bigger.  If it fills up you just clear it out, right? Well here’s a good reason.  It seems that VUM (vCenter Update…

by Forbes Guthrie at November 13, 2009 08:17 PM

Whiteboarding

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

During the delivery of my VMware training courses I really enjoy interacting with the students using the whiteboard. It should contain just enough information to demonstrate understanding and students are encouraged to participate in the discussion. Here are some examples from this week’s vSphere…

by Eric Sloof at November 13, 2009 07:15 PM

Tell Me More About vShield Zones

VMware vSphere Blog

VMware vShield Zones, a new security service for vSphere, ensures strict compliance with security policies and industry regulations for user data as customers adopt cloud computing with virtual environments for increased efficiency and flexibility. Previously, compliance required diverting network…

by Michael Adams at November 13, 2009 06:31 PM

Tech Field Day : MDS Micro & Xsigo

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

This was my first ‘Tech Field Day’.  I was not sure what to expect and at first it seemed like the beginning of a strange Technology Reality TV Show.  Everyone loaded up on a bus, most meeting for the first time only hours before and headed to a...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at November 13, 2009 03:16 PM

Great Article about Cisco UCS Networking with Palo adapter

Malaysia VMware Communities (Malaysia VMUG)

Cisco had officially launched the Palo adapter for their UCS platform. Now you will have more choice to select the adapter to be used by the UCS platform. While I am searching more information on the net to compare about the different within Palo and Menlo, I found this great article which provide a…

by craig at November 13, 2009 02:56 PM

GestaltIT Tech Field Day: Day 2

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

Day 2 – Here We Go Again! I’m throwing in the towel on trying to live blog/journal Tech Field Day. The event is too engaging and it’s all I can do to keep up with the conversation on Twitter while actually trying to learn so much new technology and products. As in Day 1, please check [...]

by Rich Brambley at November 13, 2009 02:43 PM

Gestalt IT Field Days 2009 Day 1

Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood)

Yesterday was the first day of the Gestalt IT Field Days.

It was a great event which ran smoothly. We started the day at the VMware ECB for breakfast then a tour of the VMware demo lab racks. From the main building we walked over to one of the R&D buildings for some vendor presentations.

First off…

by Rodos (noreply@blogger.com) at November 13, 2009 02:43 PM

NFS and IP-HASH loadbalancing

Frank Denneman

My background is Fibre Channel and beginning 2009 I implemented a large iSCSI environment. The “other” storage protocol supported by VMware, NFS, is rather unknown to me. And to be honest I really tried to keep away from it as much as possible, thinking it was not a proper enterprise worthy…

by Frank Denneman at November 13, 2009 02:42 PM

Resource Pools and Shares

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

I just wanted to write a couple of lines about Resource Pools. During most engagements I see environments where Resource Pools have been implemented together with shares. These Resource Pools are usually labeled “Low”, “Normal” and “High” with the shares set respectively. This is the…

by Duncan Epping at November 13, 2009 02:27 PM

Jij komt toch ook naar het Dutch VMUG Event 2009?

Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer)

Zoals Arne, Bouke en Viktor, Ivo, Eric, Arnim, Duncan en Gerben al besproken hebben vindt op 11 december 2009 het jaarlijkse Dutch VMUG Event 2009 plaats! Dit jaar is het extra feest, want het evenement wordt voor de vijfde keer georganiseerd! Het evenement staat dit jaar uiteraard in het teken van…

by Joep Piscaer at November 13, 2009 02:13 PM

My Company, BusinessMann A/S won VMware Partner of the Year 2009 award in Denmark

Virtual Troll (Heino Skov)

I attended a local party held by Arrow ECS in Copenhagen last night, and several awards were given out during the party. One award stood out to me, of course, which this blog post is about. My company was nominated in the category of VMware Partner of the Year in Denmark with 3 other of our…

by Heino Skov at November 13, 2009 01:32 PM

Passed VMware VCP 4 certification exam

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

VMware VCP-410 passed I don’t think that there is many people like me. Just look. I was born in Czech Republic, then with the life going on I’m now French and I live at a beautiful Tropical Island called Reunion (FR) in Indian Ocean. For your information it’s close to Mauritius. Anyway. Since…

by Vladan SEGET at November 13, 2009 01:17 PM

VMware VIEW 4 useful information

Virtual IEF (Ivo Beerens)

  After attending the VMware View 4 Talkshoe podcast the following information about the announced VMware  View 4 was discussed: VM’s per core: VM’s per core, In VMware View 3 the number was 6-9 VM’s per core, now in View 4 with for example the Intel Nehalem processors you can get to 12-16…

by admin at November 13, 2009 10:28 AM

VMware View 4 with PCoIP

Virtual Desktop Blog (Warren Ponder [VMware])

Recently we announced VMware View 4. One of the most exciting and fulfilling things for the RDE team and myself was the collaboration with our partner Teradici to bring a software implementation of a next generation display protocol ( PCoIP ) to market. It has been a lot of work, on a really…

by wponder at November 13, 2009 08:18 AM

Links for 2009-11-12 [del.icio.us]

blog.scottlowe.org (Scott Lowe)

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November 13, 2009 08:00 AM

P2V ramblings with OEM server installation

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

Windows OEM license installed on physical Server can’t really be P2V. Or yes? It just came it as an evidence for me because it already happened to me in my production environment several times, but it’s not evident for everybody. So just a little remember. Especially when you are just started…

by Vladan SEGET at November 13, 2009 05:11 AM

Answers to this week’s most common questions about VMware View 4

Brian Madden Blog

I wrote about VMware’s View 4 announcement on Monday. Since then there have been a lot of questions raised. I’ve managed to get answers to some, and I’m working on getting answers to the rest. But I figured that for today I’d update...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at November 13, 2009 05:01 AM

Silent Lucidity: IaaS — Already A Dinosaur? The Evolution of PaaSasaurus Rex…

Rational Survivability (Chris Hoff)

Sitting in an impressive room at the Google campus in Mountain View last month, I asked the collective group of brainpower a slightly rhetorical question: How much longer do you feel pure-play Infrastructure-As-A-Service will be a relevant service model within the spectrum of cloud services? I…

by beaker at November 13, 2009 03:40 AM

November 12, 2009

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

I’ll be participating in the Advanced Enterprise Virtualization seminars with Brian Madden and Eric Henderson in Los Angeles, Columbus and Chicago. Hope to see you there! Here is more information. Related Posts: VDI Can Alleviate Commuting Costs VMWare, Please clarify who can attend VMWorld…

by ssnowden at November 12, 2009 11:17 PM

VMware View3 Chapter Serialized

RTFM Education (Mike Laverick)

techtarget.com has very kindly taken one of my chapters from my soon to be released book on vSphere4. The chapter was original meant to be VMware View3. Unfortunately, because of length and publishing deadlines - the VMware View3 chapter didn’t make the final cut my book. So techtarget.com very…

by Mike Laverick at November 12, 2009 11:14 PM

New Article on XenDesktop and VMware View

Virtualization Information (Shannon Snowden)

I was recently asked about which one is better – XenDesktop or View? Here is the link: http://snipurl.com/t7efi Related Posts: XenDesktop Demo Free XenDesktop Training Citrix Announces 3D Capabilities in XenDesktop: 10x Less Bandwidth VDI Can Alleviate Commuting Costs Citrix Partners React to…

by ssnowden at November 12, 2009 11:05 PM

Where Did the “Boxes” Go?

The Console (VMware Management [VMware])

Posted by Rick Jackson Chief Marketing Officer At VMworld 2009 this past September, we rolled out an updated VMware logo as a predecessor to our overall re-branding efforts. The obvious change that most people saw and commented on was the...

by VMTN at November 12, 2009 10:50 PM

ESX Commands: esxcfg-pciid,rescan,resgrp,swiscsi,upgrade, vmhbadevs

2 VCP's and a Truck (Jon Owings)

I have been writing on ESX command line stuff for far too long now. I just need to finish it before ESX 5 comes out with no command line support and my year long series is rendered obsolete before it is finished. Here is a few more commands from ESX 3.5u4. They are [...]

by Jon Owings at November 12, 2009 10:25 PM

Finlay MacLeod on I.T. Business as Usual – isn’t

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

Download the report here: I was talking with Finlay MacLeod about his views on the changing nature of IT, how we need to think about the ever increasing pressures on cost reduction combined with sustaining service delivery at commercial grade pricing.  It was very interesting, the following are a…

by Martin at November 12, 2009 06:39 PM

Winner of Cycle 4 on Thin Provisioning!

VMware vSphere Blog

Congratulations to Scott Sauer. He is the winner of our fourth cycle of the vSphere blog contest. His entry is shown below and can also be found at: http://www.virtualinsanity.com/index.php/2009/10/12/get-thin-provisioning-working-for-you-in-vsphere/ Get Thin Provisioning working for you in vSphere…

by Michael Adams at November 12, 2009 06:17 PM

Sweating your IT assets isn’t good business

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

Computer Weekly The reduction in demand for IT products and services as businesses cut spending is constricting supplier innovation and reducing choice for IT project leaders. Research by BT Global Services indicates that 80% of UK managers are preparing to sweat their IT assets. While 75%…

by Martin at November 12, 2009 05:15 PM

Understanding VMware ESXi features

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

If you're concerned about the ostensible 'limitations' of ESXi – VMware's scaled-down free hypervisor – an expert outlines ESXi's core features and compares ESXi and ESX.

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by David Davis, Contributor at November 12, 2009 04:37 PM

Understanding VMware ESX features

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

An expert outlines VMware ESX features and ESX hardware compatibility and installation concerns.

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by David Davis, Contributor at November 12, 2009 04:35 PM

VMware High Availability's benefits and limitations

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

VMware High Availability (VMHA) is a key disaster recovery tool, enabling failover of virtual machines to another physical host in a cluster -- as well as VM monitoring. But it has some limitations compared with other fault tolerance technologies.

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by David Davis, Contributor at November 12, 2009 04:34 PM

VMware products and features: A virtualization overview

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

Perplexed by the steady stream of VMware products? This overview dissects VMware features and product bundles and helps identify if VMware suits your virtualization environment.

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by David Davis, Contributor at November 12, 2009 03:37 PM

VMware ESX maintains an edge over Citrix for VDI

VMware tips and tricks (SearchVMware.com)

Regardless of the connection broker used, VMware's ESX hypervisor still trumps Citrix XenServer in VDI environments.

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by Alex Barrett, Bridget Botelho at November 12, 2009 03:24 PM

Some Basics of Microsoft Server OS Licensing on VMware vSphere

TechHead (Simon Seagrave)

One common area of confusion for many is around Microsoft Windows Operating System (OS) licensing.  I think you’ll agree it is a little less confusing than it has been in years gone by though it is still seen as something of a dark art especially with the introduction of running hosted…

by Kiwi Si at November 12, 2009 03:00 PM

GestaltIT Tech Field Day: Day 1 Journal

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

Day 1 – Good Morning Silicon Valley! Today is day one of the Tech Field Day and I am about to head downstairs to the hotel lobby to meet up with the group, jump on the bus, and head to our first destination – VMware’s Briefing Center in Palo Alto. My flight was one of the [...]

by Rich Brambley at November 12, 2009 02:50 PM

The HP-3Com deal and what it reinforces...

virtualization stuff (Mark Mac Auley)

The HP and 3Com deal reinforces something Scott McNealy said 10 years ago - 'The Network is the Computer' although with today's hype cycles I would replace 'computer' with 'cloud'.

I am working on a series that will be at least two parts, maybe three, on the single most overlooked piece of the cloud…

by Mark Mac Auley (identitystuff@gmail.com) at November 12, 2009 02:39 PM

How To Bring Down A Single NIC In ESX?

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)

I was installing a new ESX Host today, and before putting it into Production, I wanted to test that the Network Failover was working correctly.

Now instead of going over to the server and pulling out network cables, I started to think, there must be a way to do this (like all good administrators do)…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 12, 2009 01:24 PM

The end is nigh for Protocol Passionistas

View Yonder (Steve Chambers)

Aren’t we human beings curious things?  We hold on to the past with one hand while grasping at the future with the other, completely oblivious to the present that is happening before us. This post is my insight into how things are changing now in the present IT industry and how Protocol…

by Steve Chambers at November 12, 2009 01:12 PM

Event: Dutch VMUG Event 2009

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

11 December aanstaande is het weer tijd voor het jaarlijkse VMUG event.  De voorlopige agenda staat al een tijdje online en wordt per week beter en beter.  Wat het leuke aan dit event is dat er  presentaties worden gegeven door mensen uit de communitie zelf. Eric Sloof, Viktor van den Berg, Joep…

by afokkema at November 12, 2009 09:46 AM

VMware Tools: Default disk timeout settings

ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema)

  On a new Windows Server 2003 server without the VMware Tools installed, there are no TimeOut settings configured. You can find this setting in the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Disk\ The picture below, you’ll see the default settings from…

by afokkema at November 12, 2009 09:14 AM

Testing Network throughput between VMware ESX Hosts

The SLOG (Simon Long)

Have you ever wanted to check your Network throughput between your ESX Hosts? or even between VM’s? Well I needed to do this, and I couldn’t find any straight forward how-to’s. Having been pointed in the direction of a simple application called IPerf by Simon Gallagher I opted to use the…

by Simon Long at November 12, 2009 09:08 AM

Ik ga naar VMUG? Jij ook?

Jume (Bouke Groenescheij)

vmuglogo11 December zal er een nieuw, fris VMUG evenement plaatsvinden in Nieuwegein. Tot 600 man kunnen meedoen aan coole, informatieve sessies. Er zijn in totaal 15 parallelle sessies en ik weet zeker dat er iets bij zit voor jou! Daarnaast vind je er vele sponsors op de beursvloer zoals: VMware,…

by bouke@jume.nl (Bouke Groenescheij) at November 12, 2009 08:37 AM

Don’t Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del On the ESX 4 Console

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

As reported on vreference.com, there is a dangerous default in ESX 4. Before I expand on this potential problem I want to point out that a bug report has been files with VMware for correcting this in future releases, but for now VI admins need to be aware of the issue – If the key [...]

by Rich Brambley at November 12, 2009 05:28 AM

Windows 7 and VMware VI client issue fixed with official KB

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

When you want to run VI client on Windows 7 recently released or on Windows 2008 Server R2 The problem was know for some time now, and the bloggers community found a workarround quite quickly. VMware was a bit late to officially fix this trouble with this official KB article: Cannot launch vSphere…

by Vladan SEGET at November 12, 2009 04:24 AM

ThinApp Side-by-Side Updating Video

VMware ThinApp Blog

A quick and (somewhat) dirty video of the ThinApp Side-by-Side Updating feature used for updating deployed ThinApp packaged apps - typically ones deployed to or accessed from LAN Workstations, View Desktops, or even Terminal Servers. This feature enables updating of the packaged applications - even…

by Dean Flaming at November 12, 2009 03:43 AM

Quota limits in vSphere?

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

A reader was recently reading the VMware white paper  What Is New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage and he came across this paragraph: Improved Storage Resources Control As the scope of storage resources have increased significantly with large deployments of virtualization environments, so has the need…

by Eric Siebert at November 12, 2009 03:22 AM

November 11, 2009

Planned Maintenance on November 15

VMware Support Alerts

VMware will be performing a system upgrade to several VMware Web applications on November 15, 2009. Maintenance will begin at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) and end at approximately 9:00 a.m. PST. While this upgrade is in progress, you...

by VMTN at November 11, 2009 11:28 PM

Does virtualization really reduce administrator headcount and workloads?

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

One benefit of virtualization that is often stated is that by virtualizing you will reduce the number of administrators needed to manage your server environment. I heard this first hand years ago when we were looking to do a server virtualization project and I was skeptical as to how that would be…

by Eric Siebert at November 11, 2009 10:36 PM

CreateAlarm not (always) compatible with the vSphere client

LucD notes (Luc Dekens)

In a recent PowerCLI Community thread someone asked how he could create Alarms with the current PowerCLI build. Since there is no PowerCLI cmdlet (yet) to create Alarms I had to fall back on the CreateAlarm method from the SDK. The procedure as described in the vSphere Web Services SDK Programming…

by LucD at November 11, 2009 09:18 PM

VMware View 4 extends the virtual desktop possibilities

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

IT Pro VMware today launched its latest virtualisation product, VMware View 4, designed to enable desktop virtualisation in a cost effective and secure way. The product sits on top of its vSphere platform and enables thousands of desktops to run from a single console in the data centre as well as…

by Martin at November 11, 2009 09:00 PM

Webcast: Re-architecting Backup and Recovery for Virtual Environments

ChrisWolf.com (Chris Wolf)

I recorded a webcast today on the subject of best practices for re-architecting backup and recovery for virtual environments. If you’re interested, you can view the webcast below, or click here to view the webcast in a separate window.

by Chris at November 11, 2009 08:47 PM

NetApp announces SnapManager

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

CNN Money NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today unveiled the new NetApp® SnapManager® for Hyper-V(TM) and SnapManager 6.0 for Microsoft® Exchange Server to improve data backup and recovery in Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments. In addition, NetApp SnapManager…

by Martin at November 11, 2009 08:45 PM

XenDesktop 4 with HDX or View 4 with PCoIP?

Thinstall Guru (Edwin Friesen)

Now that the VDI-war is still starting big players around the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market such as VMware and Citrix are presenting their unique features. Citrix XenDesktop comes up with HDX and VMware View focus is on PCoIP. We all know that display protocols are essential within a…

by edwin at November 11, 2009 08:42 PM

Reviewing the Dell PowerEdge R510

Blade Watch (Martin MacLeod)

IT Pro Dell has found a gap in the rack server market and aims to be the first to fill it. Is its latest PowerEdge R510 a good fit? We investigate in this review. Dell’s latest PowerEdge R510 aims to fit neatly into a niche in the server market as it targets small and medium-sized businesses…

by Martin at November 11, 2009 08:32 PM

Tame Electrical and Heating Costs with CPU Power Management

VMware Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche)

A casual Twitter tweet about my power savings through the use of VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) found its way to VMware Senior Product Manager for DPM, Ulana Legedza, and Andrei Dorofeev. Ulana was interested in learning more about my situation. I explained how VMware DPM had evaluated…

by jason at November 11, 2009 05:30 PM

PC-over-IP remote display technology: The inner workings of VMware View 4

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

VMware recently announced that the release of VMware View 4 is slated for later this month which will include a new display protocol called PC-over-IP (PCoIP), which should greatly enhance the user experience. What is PCoIP? PCoIP is a relatively new technology developed by a company called Teradici…

by Eric Siebert at November 11, 2009 05:23 PM

VKernel Capacity Modeler Free Until End Of Year (2009)

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

I received the following offer in an email this week from VKernel and I thought I would post this information for all VM /ETC readers: ” .. VKernel is now offering FREE perpetual licenses of our Capacity Modeler software until 12/31/09. VKernel Capacity Modeler is an alternative solution to…

by Rich Brambley at November 11, 2009 05:11 PM

vSphere Client for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)



VMware have released an official KB regarding the problem that we have all known about for
ummm… how long is it already :) ?

Cannot launch vSphere Client after installing in Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2


I guess that all the traffic that Joep Piscaer was getting on his blog post on the subject…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 11, 2009 03:04 PM

Patching your ESXi Host – Without vCenter

Technodrone (Maish Saidel-Keesing)



VMware Update Manager is the Enterprise tool for Patching your ESX Hosts and for some also the tool used to patch your Windows / Linux Guests as well.

This is all fine and dandy, but what is you do not have all of your ESXi hosts connected to your vCenter?

Why would you so that – you may ask?…

by Maish (noreply@blogger.com) at November 11, 2009 02:50 PM

vCenter Client in Windows 7

VMware Knowledge Base Blog

Ever Since Windows 7 has come out we've been seeing a lot of customer interest in running the vSphere Client on it. The same goes for Windows 2008 R2. The trouble is, Microsoft changed the .Net loading mechanism in these...

by Knowledge Champion at November 11, 2009 02:46 PM

VMFS Metadata size?

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

When designing your VMware vSphere / VI3 environment there are so many variables you need to take into account that it is easy to get lost. Something hardly anyone seem to be taking into account when creating VMFS volumes is that the metadata will also take up a specific amount of disk space. You…

by Duncan Epping at November 11, 2009 02:42 PM

Windows 7 XP Mode – Virtual PC vs. Workstation 7 Unity

VM Junkie (Justin Emerson)

So I recently upgraded my primary work laptop to 64-bit Windows 7. So far, I have no regrets! Loving the new OS, although my battery life seems to have taken a slight hit, but I’m not sure if that’s due to the OS, the battery dying, or a combination of both. However, I did find one [...]

by ermac318 at November 11, 2009 02:00 PM

GestaltIT Tech Field Day: Day 0 – Travel Day & Tweetgrids

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

Disclosure: The GestaltIT Tech Field Day is an independent event being held in Sillicon Valley on Thursday 11/12 and Friday 11/13.  The event brings together a unique group of bloggers for sponsored technical presentations, demos, and hands on excercises. Tech Field Day bloggers are free to…

by Rich Brambley at November 11, 2009 12:39 PM

Simon Long = VTSP 4

The SLOG (Simon Long)

This morning i received this in my Email Posted by Simon Long on The SLOG. Add The SLOG to your RSS Reader. Follow Simon Long on Twitter. Check out his profile on LinkedIn. Simon Long = VTSP 4


Posted by Simon Long on The SLOG.
Add The SLOG to your RSS Reader.
Follow Simon Long on Twitter.
Check…

by Simon Long at November 11, 2009 11:32 AM

Changing the block size of your local VMFS during the install…

Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping [VMware])

I did not even knew it was possible but on the VMTN Community Forums user PatrickD revealed a workaround to set a different block size for your local VMFS. Of course the question remains why you would want to do this and not create a dedicated VMFS for your Service Console and one for your [...]


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by Duncan Epping at November 11, 2009 08:26 AM

ActiveBatch Job Scheduler Adds Integrated VMware Support

NTPRO.NL (Eric Sloof)

I’ve installed ActiveBatch in my lab and it Rocks!!! Extensions to ActiveBatch Job Library Let Users Easily Create and Manage Virtual Systems For Running Workflows; Additions Include Support for VMware Job Steps and Events.

ActiveBatch’s new VMware support is made possible through a new set of…

by Eric Sloof at November 11, 2009 08:03 AM

Prerequisites - Capacity Planner analysis

Virtual Infrastructure Tips (Jakob Fabritius N¿rregaard)

Before starting a Capacity Planner excercise, there is a number of things that should be in place. The following is typically what I send to customers and ask them to have in place beforehand:

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Prerequisite

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Account with administrative rights on all servers to be surveyed,…

by Jakob Fabritius Nørregaard (noreply@blogger.com) at November 11, 2009 07:11 AM

Another easy guide from Techhead - iSCSI on vSphere

A. Mikkelsen (Anders Mikkelsen)

If you are looking for a easy and simple guide for setting up iSCSI on vSphere (ESX 4.x) you might want to take a look at this guide from www.techhead.co.uk http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esxi-4-0-vsphere-connecting-to-an-iscsi-storage-target

by A. Mikkelsen at November 11, 2009 06:51 AM

Using storage vMotion or using an Extent to gain space on the LUN

ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)

VMFS – Virtual Machine File Cluster with a possibility to dynamically expand a volume. I found this video on YouTube, where Satyam Vaghani – Senior VMware Engineer – explains which choice customers are having when they short on space on their LUN. Basically the VMFS file system has the…

by Vladan SEGET at November 11, 2009 05:33 AM

GestaltIT Tech Field Day!

VMwareInfo.com (Carlo Costanzo)

Tomorrow night I am heading out to Silicon Valley to attend an invitation only Tech Field Day organized by GestaltIT.  Never heard of Tech Field Day?  Understandable, this is the first one!  Organized by GestaltIT’s founder, Stephen Foskett and...

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by Carlo Costanzo (noreply@blogger.com) at November 11, 2009 05:26 AM

Please tell me why I should care about Sun?

Brian Madden Blog

I've been getting lots of crap from the commenters on BrianMadden.com accusing me of ignoring Sun's desktop virtualization offerings. And these people have a point. I have been ignoring Sun. I just don't "get" why anyone would use...(read more)<img><img>

by Brian Madden at November 11, 2009 05:00 AM

VMware View 4 Screen Shots

VM /ETC (Rich Brambley)

Although VMware announced VMware View 4 earlier this week, the latest release of VMware’s VDI platform will not be available for download until November 19. Described as a “marketing announcement” on the pre release call I attended, this weeks news coincides with the availability of new…

by Rich Brambley at November 11, 2009 03:22 AM

Brand – Holistic and Consistent

The Console (VMware Management [VMware])

Posted by Rick Jackson Chief Marketing Officer VMware has now passed the decade mark, and created what is arguably one of the most important brands in software. In this case, I am simply referring to the name of our company...

by VMTN at November 11, 2009 02:47 AM

Happy Birthday vmguy.com!

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence [VMware])

Don’t you hate how you feel when you forget someone’s birthday?  It’s really depressing when you forget your own website’s birthday.  My first article was published November 9th, 2008, one year ago yesterday.  I knew it was right around now but finally remembered to check tonight.  I…

by The VMguy at November 11, 2009 02:12 AM

November 10, 2009

Enough Is Enough - Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave is a Waste of Time - E-Mail Works - Top Twitter and Facebook Users Are Lazy - Suck It

Virtualization Ramblings (Douglas Brown)

I?m back with another rant and this time it is not about Citrix or VMware and/or even Microsoft. In fact, those companies have nothing at all to do with this rant but I need to get this off my chest as it is long overdue. It is all about ?too many clients? and the people that use them. Don?t…

November 10, 2009 10:35 PM

VMware admins possess the IT skills needed in a down economy

InfoWorld Virtualization Report (David Marshall)

Those individuals with virtualization skills and cloud expertise can earn a much higher salary right now compared to professionals in other areas of IT. Virtualization technology is maturing and spreading throughout datacenters, and the skills needed to implement and operate it are currently in high…

by David Marshall at November 10, 2009 10:16 PM

ThinApp 101; Differences between the Isolation Modes

VMware ThinApp Blog

Since understanding what the Isolation Modes will do to your package and the differences between them is essentials to be successful with ThinApp I put together a whiteboard video. I hope you find it useful.

by Peter Bjork at November 10, 2009 09:15 PM

Hosted VDI, Part 3

Virtualization Review Blogs

Devices, networking are core considerations desktops and the cloud.

November 10, 2009 08:20 PM

vCheck Hypervisor style

Virtu-Al (Alan Renouf)

The thing I love about adding my work to my site is that some people pick up what I have created and expand on it, I like to think that’s a sign of firstly my scripts being interesting enough to expand and secondly my scripts being so well written that anyone can pick them up [...]

by Virtu-Al at November 10, 2009 07:55 PM

Several ways to explain virtualization to a non-techie person

Virtualization Pro Blog (SearchVMware.com)

So what do a school bus, four teenage daughters, an apartment complex, a six-foot sub and a hotel have in common? They can all be used for virtualization analogies! In a previous post I covered the basics on what virtualization is and used an analogy to describe it. I also challenged others to…

by Eric Siebert at November 10, 2009 07:11 PM

Fault Tolerant capable CPUs that are not Fault Tolerant compatible

The VMguy (Dave Lawrence [VMware])

Today I ran into this issue with a customer and wanted to write on it so it does not happen to everyone.  Fault Tolerance on vSphere is an awesome solution to maximize uptime.  There is a CPU scenario that may be a challenge however: This KB article (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008027) reads: For…

by The VMguy at November 10, 2009 06:39 PM

Change to vSphere Blog Contest Schedule

VMware vSphere Blog

Cycle 6 of the contest (starting 11/30 and ending 12/11) will now focus on the Nexus 1000V product for use with vSphere rather than ESXi.

by Michael Adams at November 10, 2009 05:50 PM

The Start of Cycle 5 - vShield Zones

VMware vSphere Blog

This week starts the 5th cycle of our vSphere Blog Contest. Over the next two weeks we will be highlighting VMware vShield Zones (http://www.vmware.com/products/vshield-zones/). vShield Zones simplifies application security by enforcing corporate security policies at the application level in a…

by Michael Adams at November 10, 2009 05:36 PM

Sun Ray Software 5 released today

Thinstall Guru (Edwin Friesen)

Sun Ray Software 5 is a secure, cost effective solution that delivers a rich, virtual Windows, Linux or Solaris OS desktop to Sun Ray thin clients and Sun Desktop Access Client enabled PCs. A major benefit for new and existing customers of Sun Ray Software is the new Sun Desktop Access Client. This…

by edwin at November 10, 2009 04:07 PM

Let’s Talk About VMware DPM

Virtual Black Hole / Tripwire (Steve Beaver)

Today's topic is going to be about VMware's Distributed Power Management or otherwise known as VMware DPM.  If you have not heard about VMware DPM before, I found an interesting video interview with Anne Holler who works at VMware as a Senior Staff Engineer.  I found this interview at Vladan ...

by Steve at November 10, 2009 03:58 PM

Oracle acquires Virtual Iron Software, Inc.

vizzr.info (osde.info)

Oracle announced on 13 May 2009 that it has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software. The combination of Virtual Iron technology and Oracle VM’s scalable, high performance and highly available server virtualization…

by admin at November 10, 2009 03:40 PM

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