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.
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.
Thursday, April 3. 2008
Installing Dell OpenManage on ESX 3.5
Last moth Dell released an updated version of “Installing Dell™ OpenManage™ Software in a VMware® ESX® Server Software Environment?. This document provides installation steps, usage, and support information for the Dell™ OpenManage™ systems management suite on VMware® ESX Server software. Dell OpenManage is a suite of system management applications for managing Dell PowerEdge servers. This section lists the features available in Dell OpenManage and details what is supported and what is not supported when running Dell OpenManage on VMware ESX Server software
Wednesday, April 2. 2008
Yankee Group will rework the VMware comparison report
This morning I posted an article about the Yankee Group report regarding the comparison between Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) and VMware ESX. This report contains a lot of errors and is pulled from the Yankee Group site to be reworked. But why is the report still available at the Microsoft website ?
Workstation 6.5 Beta Program
What's New in VMware Workstation 6.5
- Use Unity to integrate your guest apps with your host
- More Powerful VM Record and Replay
- Support for Smart Cards & Smart Card Readers
- Enhanced ACE Authoring
- Link State Propagation Networking
- Improved 3D graphics Support
Plans for Workstation 6.5 include adding support for additional host and guest operating systems such as CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Asianux, and newer editions of operating systems already supported. Windows Server 2008 is experimentally supported as a guest. You are welcome to try Workstation 6.5 on these operating systems and send feedback. Precompiled kernel modules are not available for the newly added Linux operating systems. Therefore, when you start Workstation for the first time, a dialog box might prompt you to compile the kernel modules. If you experience issues with this new module updater feature, run the following command: vmware-config.pl --compile.
VMware Sales Professional training
I’m delivering an instructor led VMware Sales Professional training this Friday so I thought what’s the best way to deliver such a training? The first thing I did was getting certified myself. After studying hard on the sales topics I’m finally a VSP. Hoera! Here are my scores :
Selling Infrastructure Optimization Solutions 01-Apr-2008 83.0%
Delivering the VMware Message 31-Mar-2008 81.3%
VMware Solutions Overview 31-Mar-2008 93.4%
VMware Products Overview 30-Mar-2008 90.0%
VMware Corporate Overview 30-Mar-2008 87.5%
Virtualization Overview 30-Mar-2008 0.33 90.0%
The VMware Sales Professional (VSP) program is an online, self-paced curriculum that has been broken down into an accreditation for each of VMware’s four main solution areas. The first accreditation can be completed in about 5-7 hours and each subsequent accreditation requires about 1-2 hours. Together, this sales-focused training curriculum:
- Jumpstarts a person’s understanding of how to sell VMware products & solutions
- Reduces the time needed to be effective
- Ensures a consistent message is being evangelized