The session videos recorded by VMware are available at the Virtualization Forum Content Portal, by registering you will gain access to Keynote and Breakout Session records from the 2010 road show.
ā¢Ā Key-note : transformeer uw bedrijf met VMware
ā¢Ā Klantverhaal : de virtuele werkplek van PGGM
ā¢Ā The cloud - internal & external : bouw een interne cloud dat gereed is voor de externe cloud
ā¢Ā Desktop als een Managed Service
ā¢Ā Virtualization Management: transformeer het beheer van uw gevirtualiseerde datacenter
ā¢Ā Application Delivery : implementeer applicaties zonder conflict
ā¢Ā BC/DR : verbeter business continuity met virtualisatie
ā¢Ā Platinum sponsorsessies: EMC, HP, NetApp, Trend Micro
Wednesday, February 17. 2010
All Virtualization Forum 2010 session videos are released
Tuesday, February 16. 2010
vSphere Mini Monitor - Version 2.0 with Twitter integration
A few weeks ago Nicholas Weaver over at http://nickapedia.com/ has released a nice little tool which keeps you informed of who is on your vCenter server, but in the new version 2 which was just released, thereās a massive list of new features including Twitter integration. Now instead of just monitoring sessions on your vCenter server, the VMM will now monitor a large number of changes to multiple objects. Within the UI there is now the ability to turn on or off specific Alert categories. Here is a list of the possible choices:
Sessions
New Session
List Sessions
Terminated Session (New!)
Cluster
Creation
Deletion
Changes (HA, DRS, etc)
Host
Connection/Disconnection
Addition/Removal
Changes (Network, Storage, Maintenance Mode State)
Resource PoolCreation
Deletion
Changes
Virtual Machine
Creation
Deletion
Changes (Device Add/Remove, CPU, Memory)
Distributed Switch
Creation
Deletion
Changes (Uplinks, Port Groups)
Datastores
Renaming
By far Nicholas Weaverās most favourite feature in the new VMM 2.0 is that you can now use Twitter as a channel for alerting. Besides Twitter, you can also use the notification tray, email or an RSS feed as alert channel.
Monday, February 15. 2010
Geoff White has released a project page for esxplot at DurgaNetworks
Geoff White has started a project page for *esxplot* where you can download the current release bundle, as well as alpha and beta releases when they become available.
esxplot is a GUI application that lets you explore the data collected by esxtop in batch mode. The program takes a single command line argument which is the esxtop batch mode output file. You can also simply start esxplot without any arguments, and enter a dataset file via the File attribute of the menu bar. Esxplot loads the data in this file and presents the metrics as a hierarchical tree where the values are selectable in the left panel. In the right panel, a graph is plotted (value over time) of the selected metric, in this way, you can ābrowseā the contents of these somewhat unwieldy files.
Saturday, February 13. 2010
VMWare ESX4i White Box - Acer Aspire X5810
One of my students at last weekās VMware Technical Sales Professional training demoed me his home lab with a real great White Box. Alain used the Aspire X5810 - a multimedia-ready desktop flashing a cool, brushed-metal chassis and streamlined design. This desktop occupies just one-third of the space of a traditional PC. The default CPU is an IntelĀ® Coreā¢2 Quad Processor Q8300 (4M Cache, 2.50 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB), check this page to see ifĀ theĀ CPU is Virtualization Technology (VT-x) compatible. The onboard network card isnāt supported by ESX4i, so you have to buy an additional Intel E1000.
Technical SpecificationsModel Name: Aspire X5810
Processor & Chipset: IntelĀ® Coreā¢2 Quad processor (up to 95 W)
IntelĀ® Coreā¢2 Duo processor
IntelĀ® G43 Express Chipset
Memory: Up to 8 GB of DDR3 1066 MHz SDRAM (dual-channel support on four DIMMs)
Storage: SerialĀ ATA hard disk up to 1TB (ICH10)
Friday, February 12. 2010
Update on Workstation 7 Licenses and VCP Logo
Hi all,
I am happy to announce that beginning today, February 11th, Workstation 7 licenses will begin to go out to all new VCP3s, VCP4s, and those of you who upgraded to VCP4s. If you received a letter (and if you haven't received your kit yet, you will) stating we will be sending you the key, you will now be receiving it!
As for the new VCP Logo, it has been posted to the VCP section of the website. You can download and use the logo on all of your materials.
Apologies to everyone for the delays, and congratulations once again on your achievement!
Regards,
Jon C. Hall
Technical Certification Developer
VMware, Inc.
Thursday, February 11. 2010
How to troubleshoot VMware VMotion when it fails at 10%
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003734 This video helps you troubleshoot a situation where VMware VMotion fails at 10%. The video shows you how to perform some of the more common tasks associated with resolving the failure. For more information, you can visit the VMware knowledge base article. The article provides a few more troubleshooting steps for less common issues.