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The VMware band Elastic Sky opens for Foreigner at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco. Arisa Amano on lead vocals for this song.

VMware has created VMworld 2009 Screen Saver and Wallpaper, you can get your copy here --> 

Screen Saver - http://www.vmworld.com//docs/DOC-4172#cf
Wallpaper - http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-4171

A camtasia capture of the Self Paced Labs stats screen and VC task bars from SPL at VMWORLD 2009. A clock in the upper left corner shows the ten hours elapsed into aprox 1min. The total VM count shown doesn't include embed VMs, including those the total number of VMs deployed in the SPL environment was over 41000.

Some well known Rock stars are featuring in this video. Great work Rodney

Viktor van den Berg has taken some pictures at the VMworld 2009. You can see Viktor and Duncan Epping prepping for the VMworld Run the Golden Gate Bridge 2009. You will also see Mike Laverick, Sven Huisman, Joep Piscaer, Peter van den Bosch and some pictures from the Vizioncore party.

If you want to know what’s going on at the VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, you really should take a look at John Troyer’s live streams.

All week long I'm doing live streaming video interviews from the podcasting booth. Just leave it on in the background and listen in during your day or join in the chat to ask questions. I'll be starting up the stream after the keynote.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vmworld

 

Entrigue Systems is the creator of a really cool profile tool called ProfileUnity; an enterprise-level user profile and configuration management solution for VDI and traditional Windows desktops.

ProfileUnity offers some specific Benefits for VDI Environments. A key benefit to running a VDI environment is that users can be provisioned a pristine machine, free of conflicts and bugs, at every logon. This reduces TCO through lower support costs and translates to satisfied users. To  provide  this  benefit,  an  organization’s  VDI  must  be  configured  to  offer  non-persistent desktops at  logon.  One major drawback of this is that user data is lost from one logon to the next.   Until now, this has left organizations with little option than to only offer persistent VMs to users at logon. With persistent logons, numerous benefits to running VDI are lost. ProfileUnity completely solves this dilemma by making user profiles portable across non-persistent VMs.  

ProfileUnity  Pro  adds  powerful  automated  desktop  configuration  and  deployment  integrity  features such  as  the  ability  to  create  application  shortcuts,  map  drives,  install  printers,  and  auto-configure Outlook  MAPI  profiles.  The solution can also modify environment variables, adjust Internet proxy settings, configure RDP connections, and further customize client machines during user logon.  ProfileUnity Pro includes the following enterprise class capabilities:

• Profile Migration – Speed transition and adoption of VDI by easily migrating user profiles to VMware View, XenDesktop and leverage your existing investment
• Profile Portability – Consistent user experience, regardless of platform, i.e. VDI, laptop, traditional desktop or Windows OS version
• Integration - Fully compatible with virtual profile solutions from VMware and Citrix and adds enterprise features such as profile migration (including data files) and powerful administrative control options
• Profile Provisioning – Create new MAPI profiles, map drives and printers, create RDP and application shortcuts, create self documented PDF and text reports of user profile configurations for compliance and disaster recovery and more

Liquidware Labs continues to bring solutions to the market that enables the swift and elegant migration from legacy desktop platforms to virtual desktops. Integration and release of new products based on the core Entrigue offerings will be announced and demonstrated at VMworld 2009 on booth 1438K in the New Innovator Pavilion.

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The last page of the VMworld 2009 conference guide reveals the location and dates for the upcoming VMworld Europe in 2010. Copenhagen here we come.

hello 2010

VMworld 2010
August 30 – September 2
Moscone Center, San Francisc

VMworld Europe 2010
October 11 – 14
Bella Centre, Copenhagen

Via @vnagornyi #VMworld 2009 Conference Program Guide http://twurl.nl/2r6p8e Last page: VMworld 2010 US 8/30-9/02 in SF, Europe 10/11-10/14 in Copenhagen

I just finished a Skype call with David Bieneman, he‘s the CEO at Liquidware Labs these days. We started off with talking about the old Vizioncore days when David attended his first VMware TSX 2005 at Vienna, Austria. David also has given me a heads up about a new website called VDI.COM which  is a technical resource where thought leaders in server based computing and virtualization come together.
 
The site is focused on real VDI adoption related issues like desktop and user assessment prior to designing VDI, design and deployment of VDI, best practices on how to secure VDI, how to gauge user experience and measure application level performance, observing user/application workload behaviour, expanding POCs (proof of concepts) to production and of course moderators keep adding more topics.

There are forums, polls, blogs and even classified ads for independent consultants or those selling their old FAT clients!  The site it super social and viral.  Unlike a standard forum with simple text Q&A - you can share videos, you have an instant messenger built in, chat-rooms, event postings, file uploads and even a photo forum to vent or have a laugh.

The best part is, thought leaders from all over the world have already began to sign up with VDI.com - not the employees of just a single solution or platform!

So head over to http://www.vdi.com and Let the VDI begin!

When you’re not into Skype and want to meet David Bieneman in person, he will be at this year’s VMworld, here’s his quote ..

Eric, the 45 minutes we spent was not enough. I’ll be at this year’s VMworld in San Francisco – booth 1438K in the new innovators pavilion if any of your readers want to come by and pick up a VDI.com giveaway! Lastly so everyone knows, VDI.com is owned by Liquidware Labs... but not smothered by Liquidware Labs.  Let’s not have any surprises once that gets out... So now it’s out!  We may put some advertisements up on there, but we don't plan on making this an ‘ad site’ using every free space and disrupting the main intent of the site... to share, learn and teach.

The Schedule Builder is open for business! If you are registered, you can book classes now at http://bit.ly/4cj7uJ. The most popular session is already overbooked. If you want to attend Carter’s VM2241, the only option is the waiting list. I’m sure this session will be upgraded to a bigger room.

VM2241  Managing vSphere with VMware PowerCLI
Yavor Boychev, Scott Herold and Carter Shanklin

Abstract:  Are you vexed by VMs? Drowning in datastores? Scared of snapshots? Do you ever feel like your Virtual Infrastructure is out of control and nothing can help?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you've got a problem that only automation can solve and VMware's free PowerCLI (formerly known as the VI Toolkit for Windows) is the best tool for the job. In this session, learn how PowerCLI's powerful commands and strong community will help you tame your ESX, vCenter, and Update Manager servers in virtually no time at all.

Don't forget to check-out TA2650 - Take PowerCLI to the Next Level

At August 31, 2009, you can join VMware's development engineers at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the first VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day. This event is dedicated to all the developers building solutions on the VMware platforms and is co-located with VMworld 2009. As a "Developer Day", the primary focus is on helping developers integrate with VMware platforms. VMware will cover developer technologies related to all three of VMware's product areas – datacenter, desktop and cloud – in sessions and corresponding demos. A sample of topics to be covered include vSphere Web Services SDK, APIs for managing and automating guest OS, vCloud API introduction, vApps, vStorage, productivity tools and much more. Packaged into beginner and advanced level sessions, the content will be tailored specifically to help developers learn about VMware's integration APIs, understand implementation best practices and see examples. Corresponding demos will provide further opportunity for training and discussion with VMware engineers in small-group settings.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange/register

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According to the abstract of the following VMworld 2009 session, VMware will discontinue the classic Service Console-based ESX in the near future.

Session ID: TA4060
Title : The Path to COS-less ESX: Migrating Server Operations from ESX to ESXi

VMware ESXi is the next generation hypervisor architecture from VMware, offering improved reliability, security, and a simplified operational model. Due to the superior nature of ESXi, VMware will discontinue the classic Service Console-based ESX in the near future. If you are a long-time user of ESX and have developed your management procedures around the Service Console, then come to this session to learn how to migrate to a new, improved operational model. We will show how to adapt your process for all aspects of management, including: hardware monitoring, backup, systems management, user management, logging, troubleshooting, and more. You should be able to leave this session armed with the tools necessary to be prepared for the transition to ESXi.

Update : Changes to the ESX Service Console for ESX 4.0

This technical paper discusses incompatibilities between the ESX 3.5 service console and the ESX 4.0 service console. Included are suggestions of what you might do to upgrade your existing  environments that depend on the ESX service console. This document also discusses how you might bridge the gap to support ESXi, which does not include a service console. And finally, if you are currently writing applications that run in the ESX service console, this document suggests some possible options you have for transitioning away from it.