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Focused exclusively on the needs of our technology partners, VMware Technology Exchange is a 1-day, information-packed event covering the latest on:

• VMware roadmaps, products and technology directions.
• Integrating with VMware products (APIs, toolkits and labs).
• Best practices for running applications in a virtual environment.
• Partner benefits, programs and joint marketing opportunities.

Whether your company makes servers, storage products, application software, operating systems, networking products, management tools, or other types of technology, the event will provide you with valuable information for planning and partnering with VMware.

http://www.vmwaretechnologyexchange.com/

Share operational processes to understand all organizational steps required to implement a virtualization solution. Improve on both new and existing models for enterprise virtualization.

The Dutch VMware User Group (VMUG) program is designed to encourage and support the Dutch community of VMware users. If you are a Dutch VMware fan, you can use this link to join the group.

VKernel's intrepid Founder and CEO Alex Bakman just couldn't wait to start talking about a future product release, VKernel's Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer V2.0. Needless to say, their brand new VP of Sales wasn't too happy about leaking news for a future product. But the cat's out of the bag. You can watch a video podcast that previews this latest release. Alex Bakman will also be speaking on the VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas; Wednesday, September 17th at 4:30PM in Session #PO1860 -- "How to Implement a Cost Visibility and Chargeback Process Using the Resource Consumption Model". 

VMware High Availability (VMware HA) monitors your virtual infrastructure for ESX Server host failures and restarts virtual machines that are interrupted by those failures on alternate hosts. Starting with ESX Server 3.5, VMware HA can also detect and handle the failures of individual virtual machines and respond appropriately based on your specifications. With this additional functionality, called Virtual Machine Failure Monitoring, VMware HA deals with both host operating system and guest operating system failures.

This demo shows Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) being used to initiate a VMotion on a VMWare ESX server.

Gain the knowledge and skills to operate VMware ESXi in a single-server environment. This self-paced course contains brief concept modules, guided demos, and interactive simulations. Topics covered include: Virtualization Concepts, Server Configuration, Virtual Machine Management, Networking, Performance Monitoring, and more. This online course includes approximately 120 minutes of content with unlimited access by the subscribing individual for 90 days:

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Configure ESXi
• Install the Virtual Infrastructure client
• Understand and configure ESXi networking
• Understand and configure ESXi storage
• Monitor and configure resource use
• Build and configure virtual machines and install guest operating systems
• Clone virtual machines
• Monitor and manage virtual machine performance

This guide is intended for experienced Windows or Linux system administrators who will be installing VMware ESX Server 3i and will be configuring virtualization for the first time by using VMware Infrastructure 3. Specifically, it is intended for users who:

• Do not yet have the ESX Server 3i software installed.
• Do not yet have the VMware Infrastructure Client or the VMware VirtualCenter Server installed.
  
  This guide describes VMware ESX Server 3i and VirtualCenter and provides instructions for setting up and configuring a host, including the following tasks:
• Installing ESX Server 3i and adding the host to your network.
• Deploying the VI Client and connecting to a single ESX Server 3i host.
• Deploying and running a virtual machine.

Get a free license for VMware ESXi and build virtual machines in minutes with this easy-to-deploy, OS-independent hypervisor.

Features & Benefits
Virtualize processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines with VMware ESXi, an enterprise-class hypervisor with a thin 32 MB footprint for added security and reliability.

VMware ESXi is the virtualization platform customers build upon for continuous application availability and infrastructure security. With VMware Infrastructure 3, customers can add the benefits of server consolidation, automatic load balancing and business continuity to ESXi.

YOUR LICENSE INCLUDES

• VMware ESXi
• VMware Virtual SMP
• VMware VMFS

During the installation of the Update Manager, you can select to install the optional VMware Infrastructure Update Manager – PowerShell Library. VMware Update Manager – PowerShell Library is a set of commandlets for scanning and remediating virtual machines or hosts, downloading software updates, and creating baselines. It can be installed and used on any machine that has VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows) installed and access to a VirtualCenter Server. VMware Infrastructure Update Manager – PowerShell Library is an experimental feature and is supported only in English.

Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg, the guys behind the PowerScripting Podcast have a great show lined up for you.  They will be talking to Carter Shanklin from VMware about their PowerShell Toolkit.  He’s got some exciting NEW news to share with us, so that’s cool.  They also bring you news, resources, tips and whatever else they can scrape up.

VMware ESX/ESXi Server 35 Update 2

ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 2 Installable

ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 2 Installable Embedded

VMware Virtual Center 25 Update 2

Update Manager Update 2

Converter Enterprise Update 2

July ’08 is a busy moth at Palo Alto, VMware just released the update 2 for VMware ESX server 3.5 and Virtual center Server 2.5 and the free VMware ESXi Installable.

VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Server Latest Released Version: 2.5 Update 2 | 07/25/08

VMware ESX 3.5 Server Latest Released Version: 3.5 Update 2 | 07/25/08

VMware ESXi Installable Latest Released Version: 3.5 Update 2 | 07/25/08

What's New

·         Windows Server 2008 support

·         VMotion Compatibility

·         Storage VMotion

·         VSS quiescing support

·         Hot Virtual Extend Support

·         192 vCPUs per host

·         8Gb Fiber Channel HBAs

·         SAS arrays

·         10 GbE iSCSI initiator

·         10 GbE NFS support

·         IBM System x3950 M2

·         IPMI OEM extension support

·         System health monitoring through CIM providers

·         CIM SMASH/Server Management API

·         Display of system health information

·         Remote CLI

·         HP Management Agents

·         Solaris10 U5

·         SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2

·         Ubuntu 8.04

·         Driver updates

·         Library update

·         VMware High Availabilty (HA)

The benefits of virtual environments are widely known and accepted. However, Kroll Ontrack engineers have seen a ten-fold increase in data recovery needs in virtualised environments.  Data recovery from these systems is more complex and risky, because of the quantity and value of data residing on them.  To cater to this need Kroll Ontrack's R&D team have devised unique capabilities to recover data from virtual environments.