Eric Sloof

Last week my VMworld session proposal was denied, I wasn’t the only one because the presentation proposed by Scott Herold over at VMGuru.com was also denied. On top of that this evening Tarry Singh informed me that our panel discussions is denied.

This panel discussion will involve industry experts such as Mike Laverick, David Marshall, Eric Sloof and Tarry Singh (panel moderator). The focus of this panel discussion is to engage in a deep dive session on VMware's SRM (Site Recovery Manager) and VDM (VMware Desktop Manager). The panel discussion is an advanced session where industry and world renowned analysts and experts join together to discuss the disaster recovery and desktop virtualization. This is an advanced session where the audience gets to participate as well. Takeaways are: - Learn from the experienced trainers what the benefits of SRM and VDM are. - Learn when you should not use them. - Enjoy an independent discussion and participate in it yourself! - Meet industry analysts.

I’m curies what the VMworld agenda will bring us.

Unfortunately my proposal didn’t make it to the finals, you can download it here.

Dear Eric Sloof,

Thank you for your interest in speaking at VMworld 2008. We received a record number of session proposals for this year's conference.

We were presented with the difficult task of deciding among hundreds of excellent proposals to fill a limited number of openings, while keeping in mind the need to cover a variety of topics and a good mix of industries, geographies, and business sizes. Unfortunately, we will not be able to include your following proposal in our upcoming event:

Session ID: 1420
Title: VDM2 Install and Configure
Track: Virtualizing the Desktop - VD

We greatly appreciate the time and effort you took to submit a session proposal, and we hope that you will consider applying again in the future.

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Can we start a VM in ESX 3.5 on WS 6.5 ? Yes we can :-)
The beta 2 of VMware Workstation contains a permanent fix for this problem......







New Features in VMware Workstation 6.5:

-Seamless integration of guest & host applications with Unity
-Advanced VM Record and Replay with Visual Studio integration
-Support for Smart Cards & Smart Card Readers
-Link state propagation networking
-Enhanced ACE authoring capabilities
-Easy Install Option's support for Linux
-Improved 3D graphics Support
-Virtual Machine Streaming

Chris Skinner, a Technical Trainer over at VMware created a document for clustering VirtualCenter 2.5 with MSCS. Feel free to distribute to clients and colleagues. A special thanks to Seva and Charu for challenging Chris to do this based on their VC2.0 document. This paper documents the steps to successfully implement a high availability solution for VirtualCenter 2.5 using Microsoft’s cluster services. There are some basic requirements to start the process. Microsoft requires Active Directory for cluster services. Additionally, Windows 2003 Enterprise server or higher will be necessary. This document was compiled from several sources. It demonstrates creating a VC cluster on the same ESX host (cluster-in-a-box) with a SAN-based quorum disk. The hyperlinks at the end of the document has more detailed information for other types of configurations, such as, cluster-across-boxes and physical-to-virtual.

Their customers have been asking to manage their physical and virtual infrastructures through a single console - and we know that many of you have significant investments in HP OpenView and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.  That's why Veeam's acquisition of nworks, announced today, is exciting news for all our customers.
 
nworks' products are the Smart Plug-In for VMware for HP Software Operations Manager and the Management Pack for VMware for Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager. These connectors allow you to directly incorporate day-to-day VMware management into enterprise management frameworks from HP and Microsoft.

By combining Veeam's resources with nworks' proven enterprise management expertise, we're moving the industry closer to eliminating the management separation of the physical and virtual worlds that has been problematic since the inception of virtual infrastructures.