VMware is pleased to announce the launch of the latest VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP) specialty track in Infrastructure Virtualization. In addition to completion of the Core VTSP courses, participants enrolling in the Infrastructure Virtualization specialty track will gain valuable insight in concepts relating to, advanced networking, consolidation estimation, data protection, high availability, and resource management. Partners can also enroll in VTSP training plans geared towards Desktop Solutions and VSLA Management. Check out the training tab on Partner Central today for more VTSP details.
Tuesday, April 15. 2008
VTSP: Infrastructure Virtualization Training
The TSX is back
VMware Technology Solutions Exchange is now enfolded into VMware Partner Exchange. Technical Professionals rejoice! VMware has folded the popular Technology Solutions Exchange (TSX) into VMware Partner Exchange and have added more value for their technical partner audience. With Hands-on Labs on Site Recovery Manager, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VMware ESXi and VMware Lab Manager, you will get hands-on training by VMware experts! Or attend the advanced technical level sessions (TECH300 series) which will help you design and architect solutions in a mock customer scenario. Along with your team members, you will compete with other teams for the best solution and whiteboard/implementation outline.
Check out the complete Agenda -- go to the official VMware Partner Exchange website for more information!
Monday, April 14. 2008
eG Innovations – The Real Life Experience
Achieving Business Performance Goals through Virtualization Management Best Practices. In researching this paper, EMA spoke with James, a senior technical engineer for a large global consumer products company (full names withheld on request). As the lone support person for 400 VMware ESX virtual machines, James found VirtualCenter did not provide enough detail or insight, so he had significant problems monitoring, reporting, and predicting performance. As James described it, they were “flying blindly.? After a formal evaluation, James selected the eG Enterprise Suite with eG VM Monitor solution from eG Innovations. As a VMware technical administrator, he says the environment is now “easier and faster to manage and administer,? and the reporting facilities alone will save him almost a day’s work every month. From the IT service manager’s perspective, the solution allows them to “load up multi-CPU systems with multiple virtual systems,? increasing utilization and cost savings while confidently meeting SLAs.
Friday, April 11. 2008
Undeleeb Din about the VMware Update Manager
Undeleeb Din over at VMware presented the VMware Update Manager training module at the VDM TTT this week in Frimley. I captured some video footage which can be viewed here. The VMware Update Manager keeps systems up-to-date and reduces the number of vulnerabilities. VUM is all about Automated Patch Management and Patches ESX hosts and the VMs and templates hosted on them.
Wednesday, April 9. 2008
MCS Storageview 1.0.3
Peter Rudolf over at mightycare-solutions released another great (freeware) Tool from Mightycare Solutions to display the logical Partitions of all virtual Maschines on VMware ESX 3.x or Virtual Center 2.x . The Tool can display how many Gigabyte the Customer can save when he decrease the logical partition to a size the VM really need.
Interview with Mike Laverick about VDM2
This evening Thomas Hagedorn over at Magirus Nordic treated us a nice Italian dinner. We had a lot of fun especially the four birthdays in the same restaurant led to a lot of singing and handclaps. Earlier today I had the opportunity to speak with Mike Laverick about the battle of the RPD protocols. He also shared his findings about the Virtual Desktop Manager 2. Finally I couldn’t resist asking him about the upcoming Advanced Technical Design Guide, and why it’s taking so long ;-). I recorded the interview and you can download it here.