I signed up for the VMworld Europe 2009 Partner Day. Europe's largest virtualization partner community event is due to take place on Monday, 23 January at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes.
Partner Day showcases the latest partner programmes, sales and training programs and marketing initiatives. Partner Day is the place for all partners (including VIP, SIs, OEMs etc) to:
• Hear from the senior VMware management team about the vision for our partner community
• Get the inside scoop on new partner programmes and training roadmap
• Learn about new sales and marketing tools
• Network with your peers and the VMware team
Tuesday, December 23. 2008
VMworld Europe 2009 | VMware Partner Day
Season's Greetings from VMware
I just received Season’s greetings from VMware, their online Christmas card looks like some kind of a Sphere.
"Please enjoy this festive period with your friends and family, Have a great xmas and new year."
Windows PowerShell V2 Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3)
Windows PowerShell V2 CTP3 introduces several significant features to Windows PowerShell 1.0 and Windows PowerShell V2 CTPs that extends its use, improves its usability, and allows you to control and manage the Windows environment more easily and comprehensively.
Selected New and Updated Features in Windows PowerShell V2 CTP3
Monday, December 22. 2008
SearchMyVM 2.0 Now Available
CompareMyVM Launched
Community Website for Benchmarking Virtual Machine Resource Allocations CompareMyVM.com, a free website tool that allows visitors to exchange and compare VMware ESX Server virtual machine (VM) resource allocations with that of the community at large. If you’re unsure about how much resource capacity (CPU, memory, and storage) to allocate to an Exchange VM supporting 1000 users as an example, you can use CompareMyVM to find detailed information on similar VM profiles submitted by the user community. When you visit CompareMyVM, you can take the following actions on the site:
• Submit – Anonymously contribute by submitting VM profiles via the ‘Snapshot My VMs’ Java applet or manually loading the info.
• Browse – Peruse the community submissions to learn how other are allocating resources and how to better provision specific application VMs.
• Edit – Make changes to your VM profile submissions as you change resource allocations.
• Vote – Help rank user submitted VM profiles based on proper resource allocations
Veeam Monitor 3.0.2 | First Findings
The download seemed to take forever and after the first 30 MB it stalled. It took more than two hours to receive the full 100 MB. Finally I installed Veeam Monitor with the local SQL2005 Express database. I tried to monitor a vSphere server but after the initial connection, it greyed out. Adding an ESX 3.5U3 server succeeded. I could even add my VC server. The tool looks great and has a feature I didn’t see before. Veeam implemented the remote console ActiveX object. I tried out some features like generating a report and alarm modelling. Everything works great, good job Veeam.
Veeam Monitor 3.0.2 features a new functionality mode which is automatically enabled when you install the product without a license, of if your license expires. Veeam Monitor Free Edition has the following limitations compared to the full version.
- Performance history lookup is limited to 24
- Number of alarms is limited to 10
- Performance and trend reporting is disabled
- Alarm modelling is disabled