Richard Garsthagen over at Run-Virtual created another nice tool. VMjuggler is an application Richard wrote to use during demonstrations. The program is quite simple, it connects to VirtualCenter 2.x and you can select a VM and 2 hosts. After selecting this you can start the VMjuggler and the VM will be moves every 10 seconds between the hosts. The VMjuggler has been added to theΒ vm4all.com website.
Wednesday, November 28. 2007
VMWare Infrastructure Task Library in Workflow Studio
FullArmor delivers on its promise of virtual machine provisioning and automation capabilities with the release of Workflow Studio version 1.1 beta 1.Β So, what's new in version 1.1? Among the eleven new enhancement there is one interesting library in particular: the VMware Infrastructure Task Library. With this library you can completely provision and automate your VI3 infrastructure.Β Create, start, stop, suspend, resume, move, delete, and modify VMs.
Friday, November 16. 2007
SearchVMware.com, is now live!
This new site provides unbiased news analysis, a library of essential tips, informative learning guides and white papers -- all in an effort to arm you with the tools and tactics you need to do your job successfully and make the right technology decisions.Β You'll get expert advice on implementing VMware-related virtualization technologies for server consolidation, disaster recovery, lab and test, desktop centralization or other production usage.Β The SearchVMware.com editors will provide you with the type of high quality content you're accustomed to from SearchServerVirtualization.com. You can even sign up for newsletters focused on different aspects of VMware virtualization technologies like:
- Desktop virtualization and VMware
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John Troyer launches VMware Connected
Eric Sloof is interviewing John Troyer at the VMworld 2007
On VMware Connected, he is going to talk about the greater community of virtualization users and how they connect, both at the home base of communities.vmware.com and elsewhere on that series of pipes. John Troyer has been working on the communities team at VMware for about two years. He worked with internal and external bloggers, keeping the VMTN Blog on a slow steady drip, and is the de facto RSS guy on the web team. Heβs also involved with projects like the Virtual Appliance Marketplace, and takes full responsibility for anything you don't like about it.
eG Monitor for VMware infrastructures
The eG Monitor for VMware infrastructures (the eG VM MonitorTM), part of the eG Enterprise Suite, is a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing all aspects of virtual hosts and guests, whether the infrastructure is used to support server or desktop applications. Coupled with the ability of the eG Enterprise Suite to monitor over 80 applications, including Citrix, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and others, the eG VM Monitor β with its patent-pending In-N-Out MonitoringTM technology -- provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for monitoring and managing the performance of virtual IT infrastructures.
Tuesday, November 13. 2007
Free vmSight Basic Edition
vmSight, the leader in virtual network intelligence, offers the Basic Edition of its product suite FREE. Designed to complement your desktop virtualization initiatives, this set of systems management tools provides valuable new management capabilities with powerful reporting for exceptional visibility. Seeing is believing. Click here to register and download the FREE Basic Edition. For more information about vmSight's product suite, visit www.vmsight.com. What is virtual network intelligence? It's a new category of virtual system management tools that provides extensive reporting, analytics and alerts on all network activity within your virtual environment. And that means improved IT accounting, visibility for IT planning and information for IT compliance.IT administrators easily view and monitor activities by user, group, desktop, server, application and time of day to meter usage in the virtual environment. Reports support IT accounting to determine chargebacks and IT planning to optimize configuration. Monitor your access right policies in real-time and receive alerts when virtual network activities do not comply with those defined policies. Easily report on detailed user activity in the virtual environment to validate your virtual network security.